Carrera Quinta, created in 2006 by Francy Montalvo and Javier Pérez, is a Colombian traditional music group. Their style blends the influences of traditional Colombian composers /ensembles and jazz concepts
Lately, Carrera Quinta has participated in competitions around Colombia, such as the 2010 Hatoviejo-Cotrafa Music Festival, one of the most important performance competitions in Colombian traditional music, as well as the 2010 competition Festival de Nuevas Músicas Mestizas (new crossbreed musics) organized by Bogotá's Chamber of Commerce. In 2009, Francy Montalvo's composition "En Esencia" was a winner in the Colombian Cultural Department traditional composition competition.
In 2006, they received a research scholarship from the Colombian Cultural Department. The research centered on the application of jazz improvisation in Colombian traditional music. Carrera Quinta has published two books: Method of Improvisation in the Colombian Pasillo (2006), and Pasillos, Bambucos, Guabinas, An Urban Vision (2009). In December 2006, the magazine Arcadia reviewed their first book and called it one of the most important music books published during that year. They also have published articles about jazz influences in traditional styles in the Colombian Cultural Department's journal A Contratiempo. Their research has been presented in musical conferences in Colombia and in the VII Congress of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music - Latin American Branch held at Universidad Católica in Lima, Peru in 2008.
CARRERA QUINTA es un agrupación instrumental Liderada por Francy Montalvo y Javier Pérez que busca acercar la música de la Región Andina Colombiana elementos de otros géneros urbanos. En su trayectoria han sido ganadores de reconocimientos por parte del Ministerio de Cultura en el área de investigación y composición. En 2009 su trabajo es incluido como parte de la experiencias exitosas que ha sido apoyadas en los doce años de vida del programa de estímulos a la creación artística del Ministerio de Cultura de Colombia.
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