Miguel Pacheco (3)

Mexican music director, luthier and psaltery performer. Miguel Pacheco began psaltery studies at a very early age, at the hands of his father. Then he complemented his musical studies and his specialization in psaltery at the National School of Music. In 1968 he joined the Typical Orchestra of Mexico City, where he is one of the leading psalters. He has more than 100 albums recorded with different artists and has taken Mexican music to other countries, in addition to touring most of Mexico with his psaltery. Miguel Pacheco founded the Quinteto Tradición Mexicana with the purpose of investigating, disseminating and interpreting Mexican music from the early twentieth century, which at that time mainly represented the waltz, polka, dance, double step and chotis. The members of the Quinteto Tradición Mexicana are: Miguel Pacheco, Enrique Ramos, Mariel Ramos, Saraí Hernández and Aaron Aguayo.