The international scenario opens to the talent of the young Venezuelan orchestra conductor Rodolfo Barráez, a new promise in the Latin American music scene.
After winning in Mexico the First Prize of the OFUNAM International Conducting Competition (2018), heir to one of the most important competitions on the continent, such as the Eduardo Mata International Conducting Competition, Rodolfo returns to the North American country to his second tour, in which he led the Yucatán Symphony Orchestra on September 27th and 28th, concerts described as “emotive and lucid” for the Mexican press.
“Barráez, Venezuelan entirely formed at the National System of Youth and Children of his country, captivate the public with his passionate, dynamic and vivacious way of conducting the Orchestra”, expressed the Sipse.
In the City of Zacatecas, Rodolfo also taught a Conducting Workshop at the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas with a diverse group of music students members of the university, as well as he conducted the Zacatecas Philharmonic Orchestra at the Fernando Calderón Theatre on October 6th.
As part of the same tour, Barráez will lead four more concerts with different Mexican Orchestras. On October 11th with the Aguascalientes Symphonic Orchestra, on October 16th and 17th with the Minería Symphonic Orchestra and on October 25th with the Xalapa Symphonic Orchestra.
It should be noted that the concerts with the Minería Symphonic Orchestra will take place in Mexico City at the Nezahualcóyotl Concert Hall with a capacity for 2229 people, and tickets are sold out for both presentations.
Rodolfo and the Orchestra will play the famous Carmina Burana of Carl Off, Tchaikovsky’s Overture 1812, Op. 49, and one of the most representative works of Mexican repertoire, the Huapango of Moncayo.
In November, one of the most emblematic cultural spaces of Europe, the Chamber Music Hall of the prestigious Berlin Philharmonie, will be the scenario where this young conductor of 25 years old will debut in Europe. On November 3th, he will lead the Hauptstadt Sinfonie-Orcheste, and the program includes the Jan Koetsier’s Concertino for four trombones and string orchestra, with the special participation of Olaf Ott, main trombonist of the Berlin Philharmonie, as well as the Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.4, among others.
As a result of his continuous and intense training, with only 22 years of age, Barráez was one of the fourteen conductors chosen among hundreds of applicants to take part in the fifth edition of The Mahler Competition, alongside the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra in Bamberg, Germany.
Two years later, he won the First Prize at the First Edition of the OFUNAM International Conducting Competition, taking him to many international scenarios, including Colombia.
Barráez will debut at the South American country conducting the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra on November 22th and 23th at Fabio Lozano Auditorium and León de Greiff Auditorium respectively. In both presentations, the repertoire will include pieces of Gustavo Parra, Joseph Haydn, and Heitor Villa-Lobos, and the Brazilian Marco Antonio de Almeida will perform as piano soloist.
Also at Bogotá, Barráez will continue sharing knowledge and expanding horizons as a conducting professor, this time offering a Master Class for the students of the Orchestra Conducting Cathedra at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
After graduating in Music with a mention in Orchestral Conducting at the National Experimental University of Arts, Barráez concludes the same study program at the renowned Hochschule für Müsik Hanns Eisler en Berlin, where he curses a Master in Orchestra Conducting under the guidance of Prof. Christian Ehwald and in Opera Conducting with Prof. Hans-Dieter Baum.
Product of the Youth and Children Orchestras movement known as El Sistema, the brilliant career of Barráez is growing to prosper and full of international commitments that will give him the opportunity of showing his extraordinary talent, undoubted charisma and overwhelming personality in each of the scenarios.
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