Mercedes Gómez Benet

Slide

Mercedes Gómez was born in Mexico City. She graduated with Cum Laude from Mexico's National Music Conservatory after studying with Judith Flores Alatorre (Mex), and later with Urszula Mazurek (Poland), Marian Shaffer (USA), Marjorie Tyre (USA) and Nicanor Zabaleta (Spain).

Slide

She has represented Mexico at international festivals and premiered numerous contemporary Latin American works written for her. Some of these have been presented on her CD albums ZARPA AL AZAR (Urtext 1998), RAMAS (Quindecim 2006) and THREE CONCERTOS BY Samuel ZYMAN (Urtext 2013).

Slide

Together with Janet Paulus she is part of SONDOS, DÚO DE ARPAS since 1999. The duo has recorded ALMÍBAR (19th Century Mexican music), CARNAVAL (works for two harps by Armando Luna), ARPEO (music by contemporary Latin American composers) and DOS DALIAS. Ms. Gómez is since 2006 a member of the ENSAMBLE TIERRA MESTIZA, directed by Gerardo Tamez, with which she has recorded two albums: IDA Y VUELTA and FOLÍA Y SON.

Slide

She has written didactic theater plays for harp students: VANIA AND THE OPEN WINDOWS (that has been presented in Mexico, Venezuela, France and USA), and FRANCIS, THE CURIOUS BOY (performed in Mexico and Spain).

Slide

As a harpist Ms. Gómez earned a Master's degree at the Royal Conservatory in Stockholm, Sweden, in 2011. She is harp professor at Mexico’s National Music Conservatory since 1988. In 2016 she was elected Vice President for the Americas of the World Harp Congress, and currently she is preparing for a doctoral degree at the Complutense University in Madrid.

previous arrow
next arrow

Videos

Multimedia
Ensamble Tierra Mestiza

Interview with the Ensamble Tierra Mestiza group at the National Conservatory of Music.

Concerto for Harp, Flute and Orchestra by Samuel Zyman

Marisa Canales - flute, Mercedes Gómez - harp, Benjamín Juárez Echenique - director, Orchestra of the Americas, film director - Luis Felipe Ferrá, producer - Valeria Estefan.

De la oreja al corazón

Video made with images of rehearsals of the staging "From the ear to the heart" by Mercedes Gómez directed by Emmanuel Márquez and music by LOrena Orozco. For the VIII International Music and Stage Festival.

Pasto-Re-La

Video about rehearsals and the premiere of "Pasto-re-la" by Mercedes Gómez Benet.
With music by Omar Guzmán under the direction of Emmanuel Márquez. Production carried out through the granting of support and donations from CONACULTA. Performing: Alfredo Herrera, Pilar Cerecedo, Ernesto García, Aracelia Guerrero, Horacio Trujillo, Lydia Rendón, César Rodríguez, Francisco Valdez and Iván Olivares. accompanied by the "Chocolate" orchestra. Premiere: December 3, 2007.

More videos

Photographs

Multimedia
More photos