The DeMUG Baroque Ensemble consists of twenty musicians including singers, instrumentalists and composers from the Department of Music at the University of Guanajuato in central México. The group is dedicated to the study and performance of Baroque music including the playing of period instruments and the reading of music sheets from that time. The group was founded in 2008 as a result of an interdisciplinary workshop on the performance of Baroque music given by Dr. Fabrizio Ammetto at the University. The group is directed by Italian musician and musicologist . Dr. Ammetto is Full Professor of Violin, Chamber Music, Baroque Music, Musical Analysis and Musical Philology at the Music Department of the University of Guanajuato, Gto., México. He is a member of the , and of the ‘Sistema Nacional de Investigadores’ of México. He has degrees in Violin, Viola and Electronic Music, and received a master in Violin from the Conservatorio ‘A. Casella’ in L'Aquila, Italy, and a Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of Bologna, Italy. His was about the , published by Leo S. Olschki. He has given over seven hundred concerts in Europe and America, and is the author of numerous critical editions and recordings of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century instrumental music by Albinoni, Beethoven, Boccherini, Bruni, Mozart, Paganini, Telemann, Tessarini, Valeri, van Wassenaer, and Vivaldi. He has published articles in “Ad Parnassum”, “ArteConCiencia”, “Esercizi. Musica e spettacolo”, “Hortus Musicus”, “Studi vivaldiani”, and “The Consort”. He is the founder and director of ‘L’Orfeo Ensemble’ of Spoleto. He has directed the Civico Istituto Musicale ‘A. Onofri’ of Spoleto, Italy, and taught Baroque Violin at the Conservatorio ‘G. Verdi’ in Turin, Italy. Fabrizio Ammetto is a member of the international Editorial Committee of the , Venice, Italy. The members of the group are Miguel Ángel Lozano Bonilla, Tlathui Benavides Trejo, Raúl Delgado Delgado, Elizabeth Martínez Ramírez, José de Jesús Yebra Velázquez, María del Rosario Aguinaco Flores, Cindy Zuleyka Sánchez Arias, Ernesto Vargas Álvarez, Héctor Eduardo García Guerra, Acatzin Omar Pérez López, Marco Antonio Pruneda Tavárez, David Gutiérrez Escalante, Lizbeth Alejandra Pérez Bernal, Sayra Ivonne Jacinto Aranda, Tania Becerra Sosa, Paulo Tovar Gómez, Alejandra Béjar Bartolo, María Elena Alcaraz Lozano. They have performed vocal and instrumental works by Tomaso Albinoni, Johann Sebastian Bach, Giuseppe Bergonzi, Arcangelo Corelli, Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco, Giacomo Facco, Giovanni Lorenzo Gregori, Georg Friedrich Händel, Giuseppe Maria Jacchini, Benedetto Marcello, Artemio Motta, Giulio Taglietti, Georg Philipp Telemann, Giuseppe Torelli, Unico Willem van Wassenaer and Antonio Vivaldi. The group regularly performs at various festivals in central Mexico, including the ‘Festival de Verano’, the 'Festival Internacional de Órgano' and Festival Internacional Cervantino, all in Guanajuato.
