About

Venezuelan arranger and composer born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1970.

He began his musical studies at the Instituto Privado de Educación Musical (IPEM) in Valencia, Venezuela with Betty de Vespa and Nelson Chalbaud, continuing his musical studies alongside his studies in Information Engineering, a discipline he currently practices.

He began choral singing in 1984 and has since belonged to student, amateur, and professional choral groups continuously, becoming a member of the Camerata Barroca de Caracas, directed by Isabel Palacios.

For more than 30 years he has researched the work and history of the famous Venezuelan vocal group Quinteto Contrapunto, and the arrangements written for this group by Rafael Suárez, even transcribing to score some of the arrangements that were considered lost. He contributed part of his archive and assisted in the revision of scores for the book Arreglos corales de Rafael Suárez (Fundación Vicente Emilio Sojo - 1999). He has dedicated more than 40 years to researching and documenting the history of the Quinteto Contrapunto, collecting data and anecdotes through conversations with its members and people close to the ensemble.

His work as an arranger of Venezuelan and Latin American popular and folk music includes more than forty arrangements for various vocal configurations, some of which have been performed by prestigious groups such as the Ensemble Brahms de Caracas (Venezuela), Ensamble “Les Trouvers” from the University of Carabobo (Venezuela), Coro Virtual Latinoamericano, Children’s Choir of the Orquesta Sinfónica Juvenil del Estado Lara (Venezuela), Ensamble Ancora, Coro Polifónico “Adelis Fréitez” and Cantoría Larense, with one of his arrangements being part of the repertoire that this last group performed during the 2014 World Choir Games, winning first place in the competition.

He completed advanced studies in music theory at the University of Edinburgh, contemporary harmony, counterpoint and composition with Carolina Hengstenberg, and choral composition with Maestros César Alejandro Carrillo, Dante Andreo and Luis Enrique Téllez.