Barra Libre

The Barra Libre Percussion Trio is integrated by Maribel Pedraza, Kaoru Miyasaka, and Gabriela Orta. Each one of them has a wide professional trajectory in this family of instruments. They have walked through symphonic, popular, and contemporary music, and jazz.
Their participation in different projects within the arts such as dance, theater, and multimedia make them a creative ensemble, opened to new musical proposals.
The purpose of the trio is to disseminate and bring the percussion instruments closer to different audiences, showing their richness in timbre, rhythmic power, and the energy they can generate. The ensemble performs music of different genres: original for percussion, transcriptions and musical arrangements that provide the audience with a broad and innovative sound palette. As part of their goals, the ensemble promotes the composition of works for this endowment and disseminates pieces created by Mexican and foreign female composers, highlighting the participation of women in music.
The ensemble formally started its activities in April 2013 and since then it has offered different types of concerts.
To the date, they have been dedicated nine musical works, expanding the repertoire for this instrumental endowment. In January of 2018, they were granted with the Joint Investment of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) for the recording of their first album, titled: TRICYCLE, Mexican music for percussion trio, which will be released in April 2019.