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Alfredo Rugeles
Washington, D. C., E. U. A., 1949
arugeles@cantv.net
http://www.dst.usb.ve/musica/compos/rugeles
Venezuelan Composer and Conductor. Studied at the Escuela de Música Juan Manuel Olivares in Caracas, where he obtained diplomas in Singing (Fedora Alemán) and Choral Conducting (Alberto Grau); he also studied composition with Yannis Ioannidis. At the Robert Schumann Institute of Düsseldorf, Germany, he obtained diplomas in Composition (Günther Becker, 1979) and Orchestral Conducting (Wolfgang Trommer, 1981).  He won the National Composition Prize in 1979 for his work Somosnueves and the Municipal Prize of Music 1985 with his composition Tanguitis and also the Artist National Prize as Orchestra Conductor in 1999. He was Associate and Artistic Director of the Caracas’ Municipal Symphony Orchestra and Musical Director of the Teresa Carreño Theater.  At the present time, he is the Artistic Director of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, Director of the Circuito Sinfónico Latinomericano Simón Bolívar Foundation, and Artistic Director of the Festivales Latinoamericanos de Música of Caracas. He is also Orchestral Conducting Professor at the Music College Instituto Universitario de Estudios Musicales, IUDEM and at the Simón Bolívar University. Since 1999, he is chairman of the Venezuelan Society for Contemporary Music, year in which he also received the National Artist’s Prize as Symphonic Orchestra Conductor. He is Member of Number of the Latin American Composer’s College of Art Music.

Composition in CD "25 Años":
Camino entre lo sutil e inerrante Orch. Sinf. 1979 8'57