Rosa Briceño

Board Member, World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles
Founding Member, Latin American Forum for Band and Orchestra Conductors

Venezuela

 

Latin American Band Conductor with appearances in numerous Workshops, Conferences, Festivals and Concerts in countries such as Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Argentina, Panama and in her own country, Venezuela. She has appeared in many of these countries along with Yamaha Music Latin America, where the quality of her work in academics, musical concerts, and research on Symphonic Bands in Latin America has been admired and recognized.

Educated as an orchestral conductor in Venezuela and in Italy, she has conducted the most important symphony orchestras in her country. In addition, she held the post of Artistic Director of the oldest and most important concert band in Venezuela, the ‘Banda Marcial Caracas’.

With this ensemble, she developed an intense artistic and administrative institution, which completely improved the image and artistic level of the band, while engaging and opening new doors for community, government and private enterprise participation. Her successful tenure with the ‘Banda Marcial Caracas, and specifically her artistic and administrative achievements are now being replicated in other bands around her country.

She currently continues her tireless research on the Venezuelan and Latin American Symphonic band movement, keeping her linked to educational processes for young conductors in Costa Rica, Colombia, Nicaragua, Panama and Ecuador; to technical assistance programs for new bands in the area, as well as new projects in Panama and Venezuela. At the same time, she experiments with new ideas and concepts with less complex musical ensembles in her own land, where she mixes traditional musical ideas with the social development of less fortunate communities.

She has also made great contributions to the Latin American community by premiering and spreading new musical works for band, written by Venezuelan and Latin American composers, while never forgetting the traditional and popular pieces from this area. She has conducted the ‘Banda Nacional de San José’ and the ‘Banda Nacional de Cartago’, in Costa Rica; the ‘Banda de Villa María’, ‘Banda de La Ceja’, ‘Banda de Rionegro’, ‘Banda del Instituto Universitario de Manizales’ and the ‘Banda de Soacha’, in Colombia; the ‘Banda Libertad’ and the ‘Banda de Conciertos “Antonio Carrillo”, in Cumaná and Barquisimeto (Venezuela); the ‘Banda Sinfónica Joven de Sao Paulo’ and the ‘Banda de Sopros Brasilera’, in Sao Paulo, Brazil; the ‘Banda del Instituto Urracá’, in Panama;  and the ‘Banda Sinfónica de la Provincia de Cordoba’, in Argentina, among others.

She has recorded two CDs: the first one, titled “A un Paisano” (‘For a Fellow Countryman’), with the ‘Banda Marcial Caracas’ (1996), and the second one, titled Gran Concierto “Una noche de Banda” con Rosa Briceño (Great Concert ‘An Evening with a Symphonic Band, with Rosa Briceño), with the ‘Banda de Conciertos del Estado Lara’ “Maestro Antonio Carrillo”(2008).

Rosa Briceño currently holds the position of conductor of the ‘Banda Estudiantil de Conciertos de la Escuela Superior de Música José Ángel Lamas’, in Caracas, where she is also in charge of the Conducting faculty. In addition, she directs the Cultural Foundation FORUM CIVILITER, where she designs and executes social development programs through concert bands. She is the conductor of the ‘Banda Experimental Pueblos de Barlovento’, is an active member of the Venezuelan Networking Band Association and member of WASBE since 1998, where she is actually a Board member. She is also founding member of the Latin American Forum for Band and Orchestra Conductors (2007).

 

 

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