Horacio Franco


Horacio Franco is a Mexican flautist and recorder player. He studied in the National Conservatory in Mexico City and later in the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam, with Marijke Miessen and Walter van Hauwe. Franco has used the recorder from the traditional forms of medieval, Renaissance music and baroque—including Latin American colonial music—to contemporary, folkloric and popular.

Career

In the beginnings of his career he was founder member of the "Hotteterre Trio", conformed from 1986 to 1994 with Luisa Durón and Bozena Slawinska, with those who he recorded 2 discs and gave various concerts. He was also director and conductor of the vocal and instrumental ensemble "Cappella Cervantina", from 1993 to 1998. He conducted the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields in London in 1997. Formed like an academic project within the National Conservatory of Music, it was an alternative educational program for barroque and contemporary music.
At the moment, he plays with the double-bass player Victor Flores. He is also director of the "Barroque Orchestra Capella Puebla", which has been successful in Mexico.

Recordings

Franco is openly gay, and in 2011 he married Arturo Plancarte, his manager. On March 2020, Franco announced that he had tested positive for COVID-19 amidst the 2019–2020 coronavirus pandemic.