{{short description|Mexican flautist and recorder player|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{BLP sources|date=November 2009}} {{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians --> | name = Horacio Franco | image = Horacio_Franco_04.jpg | caption = Franco in 2015 | image_size = | landscape = | birth_name = | alias = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1963|10|11|df=y}} | Died = | origin = Mexico City, Mexico | instruments = Recorder, block flute | Voice_type = | occupations = Recorder player, conductor | years_active = 1986–present | label = | associated_acts = | website = {{URL|horaciofranco.com}} | current_members = | past_members = }}
'''Horacio Franco''' (born October 11, 1963)<ref name="Age">{{cite web|url=https://www.milenio.com/cultura/soy-como-un-viejito-de-closet-horacio-franco|title='Soy como un viejito de clóset|language=Spanish|work=Milenio|first=Roger|last=Méndez|date=29 June 2014|accessdate=12 May 2019}}</ref> is a Mexican flautist and recorder player. Franco has performed many genres of music, from medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music—including Latin American colonial music—to contemporary, folkloric, and popular styles.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.horaciofranco.net/ |title=Home Page/Horacio Franco |access-date=2008-10-11 |archive-date=2018-06-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180618063518/http://www.horaciofranco.net/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Personal life== Franco is openly a part of the LGBT community,<ref name="Age" /> and in 2011, he married Arturo Plancarte, who is his current manager.<ref>{{cite web |last=Sanco |first=Guiller |date=22 June 2011 |title=Las parejas gay más reconocidas de México |url=https://www.animalpolitico.com/2011/06/las-parejas-gay-mas-reconocidas-de-mexico/ |accessdate=12 May 2019 |work=Animal Político |language=Spanish |archive-date=12 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190512182230/https://www.animalpolitico.com/2011/06/las-parejas-gay-mas-reconocidas-de-mexico/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> In March 2020, Franco announced that he had tested positive for COVID-19 amidst the coronavirus pandemic.<ref>{{cite web |last=Piñon |first=Alida |date=28 March 2020 |title=Coronavirus, Horacio Franco cuenta su historia antes del diagnóstico |url=https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/cultura/musica/coronavirus-horacio-franco-cuenta-su-historia-antes-del-diagnostico |accessdate=1 April 2020 |language=Spanish}}</ref>
== Recordings == * ''Hotteterre Trio'', 1987, Luzam Discs * ''Solistas of Mexico,'' director Eduardo Bush, 1988 * ''Mexican Music for recorder'', 1991, Cenidim-Quindecim recordings * ''The Folias'' Hotteterre Trio, 1992, Peer to them discs * ''Cappella Cervantina'' Horacio Franco, director, 1994, Quindecim Recordings * ''Vivaldi Concerti per Flauto'' Horacio Franco and Capella Cervantina, 1994, Quindecim Recordings * ''Contemporary Music of Camera, vol. 6,'' Jorge Cordova, 1994, Bartok Study * ''Concerto For Recorder and Orchestra'' Kibbutzim Chamber Orchestra Mordechai Rechtmann- conductor Michael recorded Wolpe-composer live, 1995, Production of the Composer * ''Mexican Symphonic Music'' Concert for Recorder and Orchestra of Marcela Rodriguez OFUNAM director Ronald Zollman, 1995, Digital Urtext Classics * ''Il Gardellino'' Horacio Franco and the Camerana Aguascalientes, 1996, Quindecim Recordings * ''Musica Barroca Mexicana'' Cappella Cervantina Horacio Franco, director, 1996, Quindecim Recordings * ''The Art of Horacio Franco'' Horacio Franco & the Georgian Chamber Orchestra, directed by Horacio Franco, 1997, Guild Recordings * ''Carlos Monsiváis and Horacio Franco'', 1997, alive Voice of Mexico, UNAM * ''Musica Barroca Mexicana Vol. 2''. Cappella Cervantina-Horacio Franco, director, 1998, Discs K 617-France, distributed in Mexico by Quindecim Recordings * ''From the Medieval to the Danzón'' Horacio Franco and Victor Flores, 2002, Quindecim Recordings * ''Solo Bach'' Horacio Franco, 2004, Quindecim Recordings * ''Sones de Tierra and Nube'' with the Band Filarmónica Mixe of the CECAM of Sta. Maria de Tlahuitoltepec, 2005, Xquenda Discs * ''Capella Puebla'' director and soloist Horacio Franco, 2005, Quindecim recordings * ''From Bach, the Beatles and others'' Horacio Franco and Victor Flores, 2005, Quindecim Recordings
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