Biography

He studied in the National Conservatory in Mexico City

Mexico City

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 and later in the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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. Franco has repertoire for recorder from the traditional forms of medieval, Renaissance music and baroque

Baroque

The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

- including Latin American colonial music - to contemporary, folkloric and popular music.

Franco was a member of the "Hotteterre Trio", an ensemble existing from 1986 to 1994. He was the conductor of the vocal and instrumental ensemble “Cappella Cervantina”, from 1993 to 1998.