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Guitar Player, arranger, composer, singer.
EDUCATION: Secondary education culminated on 1964.
Musical education including Theory and Solfeggio, Harmony, Composition, Orchestration, Counterpoint, Fugue, Musical History and Esthetics, Guitar and Saxophone.
PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES: Active participation in groups such as Antares, Los Astros, Frank Dominguez, Cuarteto Meme Solis. Musical director of Sonido Contemporaneo and Sonorama 6, Founder of Los Heraldos Negros Quartet, Accompanying guitar for Omara Portuondo, Elena Burke, Malena Burke and others. (CUBA).
Musical director and voices arranger of Havana Barq, Barquisimeto IV, Martin Rojas Trio and Cuarteto Aguamiel (VENEZUELA).
Public performances with Malena Burke, Luis Garcia, Vicky Roig, Amaury Gutierrez, Yolanda Cobelo, Mirta Medina, Annia Linares, Marcelino Valdes, Ramon Veloz and others.
Actually accompanying Ileana Yapur. (MIAMI).
Classes and conferences about guitar playing (Finland, 1978).
Music composed for the theater play “In a Summer House” (Switzerland, 1988).
RECORDS: Canciones (Jerry Wolf, Claude Vincy, Jean Lesis, Oscar Chavez and others, Omara (Omara Portuondo and Eddy Martinez), Esta es Omara (Omara Portuondo and Juan Pablo Torres). CUBA.
Omara Portuondo & Martin Rojas I and II, Martin Rojas (Love Records). FINLAND.
Feeling II, III, IV and V (Pablo Milanes). MEXICO.
Delia (Delia), Mayra Marti, Barquisimeto IV, Aguamiel (Congress of the Republic), Santoral. VENEZUELA.
Canela Fina (Canela Fina Quartet). VENEZUELA
Boleros (Roberto Siujiuro), Boleros (Danny Rivera), NEW YORK.
Boleros (Yolanda Cobelo), Su Majestad el Son y su Excelencia el Bolero (Martin Rojas and Oscar de Fontana). MIAMI.
Faltaba Yo. (Olga Guillot). MIAMI
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Order of National Culture, (Cuba, 1992), Certificate of Acknowledgement of the City of Veracruz (Mexico, 1987), Award to song “Preludio de una Soledad” (Cuba, 1979, Mention to song “Cuento para un Nino” (Peru, 1973), Inclusion in Dictionary of Cuban Music (Cuba, 1981).
Author of first track in “Nocturno”, Charlie Haden, Grammy Jazz Latino (USA, 2002).
INTERNATIONAL TOURS
AND FESTIVALS: Agua Dulce Festival (Peru, 1973), Moscow Nights (Russia, 1973), L’Unita Festivals (Italy, 1973, 1976), L’Humanite Festival (France, 1973), Northern Italy Tour (Italy, 1973, 1985), Tour and TV performance in Peru (1973), Golden Orpheus Festival (Bulgaria, 1974), Finland Tour (1974), German Tour (1974), Mexico Tours (1975, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1988), Worker of Culture Festival (Finland, 1975), Sweden, Denmark and Norway Tours (1975, 1978), International Tourist Fair (Belgium, 1976), Venezuela Tours (1976), TV performances in Panama (1976), Live performances in Place des Arts (Canada, 1977), Winter Carnival (Finland, 1976), Bulgaria, Czechoslovak, Poland, Russia and Romany Tours (1979), Sweden Tour (1981), Spain Tour (1981), Finland and Sweden Tours (1982, 1983), Live performances in Granada Island (1983), Sardine Festival (Spain, 1984), Finland, Sweden, Norway and Switzerland Tours (1985), Live Performances in Argentina (1986), Live Performances in Uruguay (1986), Italy, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, France and Portugal Tour (1987), Classes and Conferences of guitar playing given in Finland (1988), Nicaragua and Dominican Republic Tours (1989), Boleros Festival (Venezuela, 1993), Tour around Venezuela with Polar Enterprises (1996). Performances in Laredo, Texas, USA and Monterrey, Mexico (2008)
ASSOCIATIONS
ASCAP, Society of Friendship with Nordic Countries, Society of Authors and Composers of Venezuela (SACVEN), Honor Member of Sweden Society of Composer.
MUSICAL WORKS: About 70 songs, some of them recorded by Cecilia Todd, Delia Diaz de Villegas, Omara Portuondo, Pablo Milanes and others. One song included in the record “Nocturno”, winner of a Grammy award, played by Charlie Haden, Pat Metheny, Gonzalo Rubalcaba and others.
LIVE PERFORMANCES
WITH REKNOWN ARTISTS:
Omara Portuondo, Elena Burke, Malena Burke, Moraima Secada, Paquito de Rivera, Arturo Sandoval, Pablo Milanes (Cuba), Imelda Miller, Jean Lewis (Australia), Harry Belafonte (USA), Claude Vincy, Jerry Wolf (France), Delia, Simon Diaz, Aldemaro Romero, Cecilia Todd (Venezuela), Vicente Garrido, Chamin Correa, Arturo Castro (Mexico), Juan Manuel Serrat (Spain), Milton do Nascimento, Chico Buarque (Brazil), Amaury Gutierrez (Cuba).
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