The second edition of the Esteban Salas Early Music Festival, that began last Monday February 2nd with the premiere of the work La pasión de Cristo nuestro señor, by Spanish composer Antonio Teodoro Ortells, has had the participation of important Cuban and foreign artists and performers.

The early music ensemble Ars Longa, the Polyphonic Choir of Havana and the Vocal Ensemble Luna, from Cuba, inaugurated the Festival with the performance of the piece by Ortells, considered as the oldest of the Spanish baroque repertoire.

The organisation programmed the performance of a variety of Cuban choirs and ensembles such as Camerata Vocales Sine Nominé, the Orchestra Solistas de La Habana, the children choir Cantus Firmus, and the choir and orchestra from the Music Elementary School Manuel Saumell and also of artists from other countries such as Canadian soprano Linda Perillo, British violinist Walter Reiter, the Spaniard Manuel Vilas, Italian viola performer Sabina Colonna Preti, the French ensemble Le Poeme Harmonique, Argentinean guitarist Francisco Gatoy and American harpsichordist Kathleen McIntoshy.

This group of artists was a successful combination for the second edition of the Esteban Salas Early Music Festival, that was celebrated in Havana from February 2nd to February 8th.