Visiting Mexico in the winter of 1986, Mr. Munguia and his wife decided to make San Miguel de Allende in the state of Guanajuato their home. Within the year Mr. Munguia had founded the Festival de San Miguel de Allende. First sponsored by the Banco Nacional de Mexico, and then by AT&T, the festival grew from four concerts to eighteen. Presented during the last two weeks of the year, the festival came to be recognized by the Mexican government as the country’s best festival of classical music and throughout the world as: One of the most extraordinary festivals of our times.” International Herald Tribune; “Comparable to the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center,” Harold Schonberg; and “Magic in Mexico: Festival de San Miguel de Allende,” Chamber Music Magazine. Among the international artists who have participated in these holiday seasons are the pianists Walter Ponce, Jean-Ives Thibaudet, Thomas Hrynkiw, Susan Starr, Jerome Lowenthal, Ivan Davis, Bernadene Blaha, Kevin Fitz-Gerald, and the great jazz pianist George Shearing; violinists Stephanie Chase, Soovin Kim, Erick Friedman, William Barbini, Dmitri Berlinsky, Kineko Okumura, and David Kim; cellists Andres Diaz, Alban Gerhardt, Carlos Prieto, Shauna Ralston, and Gilberto Munguia; violists Myra Kestenbaum, Roberto Diaz, Burton Fine, and Barry Shiffman; flutist Patrick Gallois; guitarist Godelieve Monden; the St. Lawrence Quartet, Cuarteto Prieto, the Solistas de Mexico with Eduardo Mata, and the string orchestra of the New World Symphony in Miami.