Horacio Franco

Horacio Franco is a Mexican flautist and recorder player. He studied in the National Conservatory in Mexico and later in the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Ámsterdam, Holland, today Conservatory of Ámsterdam, with Marijke Miessen and Walter Van Hauwe, where he received the rank of “cum laude soloist”. Franco is a very active musician, who has widely changed the repertoire of the recorder from the traditional forms of medieval, Renaissance music and baroque - including Latin American colonial music - to contemporary, folkloric and popular.