Rafael Machado is a Cuban violinist.

Academic background

Rafael Machado began to study

violin The violin, sometimes referred to as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino picc ...

and

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Havana, Cuba Havana (; ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.Instituto Superior de Arte The University of Arts of Cuba / Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) was established on 1 September 1976, by the Cuban government as a school for the arts. Its original structure had three schools: Music, Visual Arts, and Performing Arts. History T ...

of Havana, in 1987. During this period of time he participated in important national violin competitions and obtained the first prize in the “

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” competition at the Instituto Superior de Arte (Havana, 1986). Machado was a member of the first Youth Latin-American Symphony Orchestra (

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, 1985), and participated in the Festival of Young Performers organized by Juventudes Musicales de Perú, in 1986.Pinterest - Explore The First, The Festival, and more! Rafael Machado: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/169307267212059619/. Consultado: 07/12/16.

Violinist

Rafael Machado has performed as a soloist, a member of

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and

chamber ensembles Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small numb ...

in Cuba,

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, Uruguay, the US,

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and

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. He was a member of the Camerata “Brindis de Salas” in Havana, Cuba from 1987 to 1992, and of the Conjunto de Cámara de La Habana, from 1988 to 1992, and obtained a great national and international promotion for his participation in those ensembles. In 1992 he arrived in México to participate in the Orquesta Sinfónica de Aguascalientes, serving as concertino in this ensemble for 18 years. He participated regularly as guest concertino in the Orquesta Filarmónica de Zacatecas. Machado was a member of “Solistas de México”, from 1994 to 1995, a group created by Maestro

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, and also collaborated with the Camerata de las Américas from 1995 to 1999. Along with these ensembles, Machado participated in concerts and festivals in

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, as well as in the

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from

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, Mexico, from 1994 to 1999. He recorded with the Quindecim label, along with

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and the Camerata Aguascalientes in 1998, and was invited to the “Puebla Instrumenta Verano 2004” as a coordinator of the Festival Symphony Orchestra. Machado was selected in 2004, as an

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at the

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, Canada. Since 2005, Machado was

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of the Festival de Música de Cámara de Aguascalientes, a Project that he promoted at a national as well as an international level; and he served also as a concertino of the

Orquesta Filarmónica del Estado de Querétaro The Orquesta Filarmónica del Estado de Querétaro (English: Querétaro Philharmonic Orchestra) is a philharmonic orchestra based in the Mexican state of Querétaro Querétaro, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Querétaro, is one of th ...

. He is currently working in the Ensemble of CEPROMUSIC, Centro de Experimentación y Promoción de la Música Contemporánea (Center for Musical Experimentation and Promotion Ensemble) in Mexico City.DCubanos – Cubanos en México – Rafael Machado: http://www.dcubanos.com/somos/rafael-machado, Consultado: 07/13/16.

Professor

Rafael Machado has served as violin professor at the Music Faculty of the

Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas The Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas (UAZ) (Autonomous University of Zacatecas) is a Mexican public research university based in the city of Zacatecas, Zacatecas, but with several campuses across the state. It is considered both the most pre ...

, at Conservatorio de Música “José Guadalupe Velázquez” in

Querétaro Querétaro, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Querétaro, is one of the Political divisions of Mexico, 32 federal entities of Mexico. It is divided into Municipalities of Querétaro, 18 municipalities. Its capital city is Querétaro Cit ...

, and currently he is a Violin professor of the Universidad de las Artes. Also, he has his own violin academy called " Machado Violin Academy," in Merida,Yucatan.

References

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