The chamber ensemble will present five concerts in Guanajuato, León and San Miguel de Allende, with four premiere works in Mexico and a collaboration with Italian musicians.

Contemporary music will meet historical memory and different cultural traditions during the first 2026 season of the Sinfonietta MIQ, a chamber ensemble of the Iconographic Museum of Don Quixote artistically directed by Juan Trigos.

The group, established in 2020, will return to the stage between August 27 and September 10 with three programs and five concerts that will tour Guanajuato, León and San Miguel de Allende.

One of the axes of this season will be the collaboration with Italy. The project brings together the Sinfonietta MIQ with the Icarus Ensemble and will feature the Italian Luca Cori as composer-in-residence, in addition to the participation of Marco Elia Righi, Juan Trigos and Aldair Porras.

The result will be a programme in which contemporary creation will dialogue with references from Nahua poetry and the cultural heritage of Emilia-Romagna, at the crossroads of identity, memory and new forms of composition.

Five works arrive in Mexico for the first time

The season will begin on Thursday, August 27, at 8:00 p.m., at the Iconographic Museum of Don Quixote, with a program that brings together works by Béla Bartók, Luca Cori, Felix Mendelssohn and Heitor Villa-Lobos, as well as Alle correnti, by Cori.

The second proposal, entitled Roots, will be the core of the international collaboration. The Sinfonietta MIQ will share the stage with the Icarus Ensemble and the soprano Daniela D’Ingiullo to present four works that will have their premiere in Mexico.

Among them are La guerra de las mujeres de Chalco, by Luca Cori, and Tlaltecatzin Icuic, by Juan Trigos, both inspired by ancient Nahua poems. Trigos’ work incorporates as a reference the only known song of Tlaltecatzin, Nezahualcóyotl’s predecessor.

The program also includes Canti di cavalieri, by Marco Elia Righi, and Six Bagatelle on the Salve Regina (Sei Bagatelle sul Salve Regina), by the Guanajuato composer Aldair Porras, who took inspiration from the frescoes of the Basilica della Ghiara in Reggio Emilia.

With the exception of Trigos’ work, these compositions had their world premiere in Italy at the beginning of July and will now arrive for the first time on Mexican stages.

Raíces will be presented on September 2 at the Juárez Theater in Guanajuato, on September 4 at the School of Music (Casa Luis Long) in León and on September 5 at the Temple of the Third Order of San Miguel de Allende.

The presentations in León and San Miguel de Allende will be held with the collaboration of the Cultural Institute of León and Casa Europa Mexico, respectively.

A closing dedicated to the string quartet

The first 2026 season will conclude on September 10, again at the Iconographic Museum of Don Quixote, with the participation of the Mooti Quartet, a young ensemble from Guanajuato.

Its program proposes a journey through different approaches to memory, time and identity through the string quartet, with works by Salvador Contreras, Georgina Derbez and Dmitri Shostakovich.

Thus, the Sinfonietta MIQ will close a season that places different generations, territories and musical languages on the same stage: from composers linked to historical traditions to new works that explore other ways of understanding identity and memory.

The first 2026 season of the Sinfonietta MIQ will take place from August 27 to September 10 in Guanajuato, León and San Miguel de Allende.

The complete details of the programs are available on the social networks of the Iconographic Museum of Don Quixote.