Aldo Abreu

Aldo Abreu

Aldo Abreu is a distinguished Venezuelan recorder player who is the First Prize Winner of the 1992 "Concert Artists Guild Competition" (New York), as well as a laureate of the "Concours Musica Antiqua" (Belgium) and the "Premio Flauto Dolce" (Germany).

Born in Caracas, capital of Venezuela, Abreu holds the Performer’s and Teacher’s Diplomas from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, and a Master's degree from Indiana University in Bloomington. His teachers have included Ricardo Kanji, Michael Barker, and Scott Martin Kosofsky. Abreu is a member of the faculties of the New England Conservatory, the Boston Conservatory, Boston University, and the Amherst Early Music Festival.

Since winning the First Prize at the 1992 Concert Artists Guild Competition, he has performed in recitals at:
* Ambassador Auditorium in Los Angeles
* Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston
* Northwestern University's Pick-Staiger Hall in Chicago
* Spivey Concert Hall in Atlanta
* Metropolitan Museum of Arts in Manhattan
* Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York

Abreu has toured throughout the United States, Europe, New Zealand, Central America, and his native Venezuela, and has been featured at the 1993 and 1996 Spoleto Festivals in the United States and Italy, the OK Mozart Festival, the Boston Early Music Festival, and the Festival Music Society in Indianapolis.

He has appeared as a concerto soloist and chamber musician with both modern and historical instruments, with many orchestras throughout the United States, including:
* Billings Symphony
* Illinois Chamber Symphony
* Handel & Haydn Society
* West Shore Symphony
* Savannah Symphony
* American Bach Soloists
* Dubuque Symphony Orchestra
* Cambridge Society for Early Music
* Maverick Concert in Woodstock, New York
* Performing Arts Series in Utica, New York
* "Distinguished Visitors in the Arts" series in Corpus Christi, Texas and

He frequently performs contemporary works for the recorder, among them:
* The Kid from Venezuela, by composer Pete Rose
* Echoes and Shadows, by Christopher Cook
* Concerto for Recorder and Orchestra, commissioned from Ricardo Lorenz by Concert Artists Guild
* Concerto for Recorders and Orchestra, by Lawrence Weiner

Abreu has also explored the rich, but rarely heard, music by Latin American composers of the Baroque and Contemporary periods. He is a frequent guest of the American Bach Soloists in California, both on stage and in their recordings for the Koch International label.

Abreu currently teaches at the New England Conservatory of Music.

External links

*http://www.hunsteinartists.com/abreu.html


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