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Flores Chaviano (born 10 December 1946) is a Cuban composer, guitarist, professor and orchestral conductor that has achieved great international recognition.
Academic background
Flores Chaviano began his musical studies in his native city of Caibarién, where he received instruction from professor Pedro Julio del Valle, which continued at a later time at the National School of Arts (ENA) in Havana, with renowned professor Isaac Nicola, founder of the modern Cuban Guitar School. Chaviano also studied musical composition at the Instituto Superior de Artes (ISA) with José Ardévol and Sergio Fernández Barroso. After his arrival in Madrid in 1981, he studied at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música with professor Demetrio Ballesteros. He also includes in his musical formation master classes from the prominent guitarists Leo Brouwer and Alirio Díaz.
Composer
As composer, his artistic works have been recognized by the specialized critique and today he is considered as one of the most important Cuban composers. He has received commissions from CDMC, the Fundación Príncipe de Asturias, the Radio Nacional de España and the Conservatorio de Nalón. Flores Chaviano was president of the composers organization from the Brigada Hermanos Saíz in Cuba during the 1970s.
Chaviano possesses an ample catalog of compositions for a wide variety of ensembles, soloist, choir, ballet, symphonic orchestra, solo guitar and in other formats. His music has been performed by prestigious orchestral and chamber groups such as the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México D. F.,the Gdansk Academy in Poland, the Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias (OSPA), the Orquesta y Coros de la Comunidad de Madrid, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Granada, the Orquesta Clásica de Madrid, the Filarmónica de Montevideo, Uruguay, the Orquesta Simón Bolívar de Caracas, Venezuela, the Orquesta Sinfónica del Salvador, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Matanzas, Cuba, the Orquesta de Cámara de Nalón, Asturias, España, the Mutare Ensemble from Frankfurt, the Cuarteto Latinoamericano de México, the Quintet of the Komische Opera from Berlin, the Ensemble 21 from New York, the Percussion Quartet of the Florida International University, the Cuarteto Entrequatre de Asturias, the Coro de la Fundación Príncipe de Asturias, the Grupo Círculo and many others. The guitar pieces from Flores Chaviano are considered among the most valued of the modern guitar repertoire.
Guitarist
Flores Chaviano has developed an outstanding career as a contemporary style guitarist, which has been endorsed by his performances as a soloist as well as accompanied by a symphonic orchestra. He has worked intensely offering concerts and galas in Cuba and other countries in Asia, Europe and America. Among his most prominent presentations are those at the Chopin Society of Varsovia, the Lincoln Center in New York City, the Kennedy Center in Washington, the Teatro Real de Madrid, the Círculo de Bellas Artes, and the Auditorio Nacional de Música also at that city and the Teatro de Bellas Artes de México; he has participated at the international guitar festivals of Granada, Alicante and Navarra, Spain, as well as in the Encuentro de Guitarristas de América Latina y el Caribe in Havana, Cuba. He has performed with Cuban orchestras such as those from Santiago de Cuba and Matanzas and the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional, and also has played with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional as well as the New World Symphony in Miami and from the Gdansk Musical Academy in Poland.
Conductor
Flores Chaviano has conducted an important work as musical director and founder of different instrumental groups such as the Ensemble de Segovia, the group Sonido Trece, the Cuarteto Fin de Siglo, the Agrupación Trova Lírica Cubana de Madrid and the Capilla Musical Esteban Salas, based in Madrid and constituted by singers and a small instrumental group, focused on recovering and promoting the music of Esteban Salas and the colonial Hispano-American musical heritage. He has been a founder of the Andrés Segovia in Memoriam Festival, sponsored by the Sociedad General de Autores y Editores de España (SGAE), and also an organizer of the Festival Internacional de Guitarra de Ponferrada, Spain.
Professor
Along with his artistic work, Flores Chaviano has developed an important labor in the musical education field. He was a professor at the Conservatorio "Esteban Salas" of Santiago de Cuba, professor of guitar in the Escuela Nacional de Arte (ENA), the "Amadeo Roldán" Conservatory and the Instituto Superior de Artes (ISA) of Havana. He has also offered contemporary guitar courses at the "Manuel de Falla Courses" in Granada, the Florida International University, the Cátedra "Andrés Segovia" at the Beijing Conservatory, the University of Puerto Rico, the Universidad de Salamanca, the Superior Conservatories of Madrid, Granada and Murcia in Spain the Conservatorio Superior de México and the Superior Conservatories of Rostock and Berlin in Germany. Flores Chaviano currently teaches guitar and chamber music at the Conservatorio Profesional "Federico Moreno Torroba" of Madrid.
For his long and fruitful career as composer, guitarist, professor and conductor, Flores Chaviano is one of the most prestigious and representative Cuban musicians within the Spanish contemporary musical panorama. His work is highly valued by the Spanish specialized musical critique as by the modern musical composers and performers.
Awards and recognitions
In 1974, Flores Chaviano received the First Prize at the National Guitar Contest of the Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba.
Work
= Ballet
=Encuentro, 1978
= Instrumental Ensemble
=A partir de un canto yoruba, 1977, para flauta, clarinete y fagot
Rítmicas núm. 1, para tres percusionistas, 1988
Entrequatre II, 1989–1990, para violín, viothey cello
Tres escenas yoruba, 1990
Patakkín Olorum, 1996
Obertura V Aniversario y Parrandas, música para once percusionistas, 1997
= Choir
=Ven primavera mía, ven, 1968
Canción cantada y Tres canciones, para coro infantil, 1979
Tres rítmicas, para coro infantil, 1978
10 de Octubre, 1979
Thepalma, 1986, coro y orquesta infantil
Tres canciones cubanas, 1987, para coro mixto
= Guitar
=Seis aires populares cubanos, 1971-1982
Variaciones sobre el yényere, 1973
Homenaje a Víctor Jara, para flauta y guitarra, 1974
Réquiem a un sonero (homenaje a Miguel Matamoros), 1975
Para dos, para guitarra, 1978
Concierto, para guitarra y orquesta, 1979
Espacio, tiempo... recuerdos
Cinco estudios de grafía
Textura I, para conjunto de guitarras, 1983
Seis danzas cubanas, para cuatro guitarras, 1984
Concertante 1, para guitarra y conjunto instrumental
Textura II, para conjunto de guitarra, 1985
Trío, 1986, para flauta, violín y guitarra
Espacio en blanco, para dos guitarras
Tríptico a John Lennon, para cuatro guitarras
Quasar/Gen 87, para flauta, saxofón barítono, guitarra y percusión
Trío, para flauta, viothey guitarra
Villalobos/87 (Homenaje), para tres, guitarra eléctrica y percusión, 1987
Son de negros en Cuba, 1988, para cuatro guitarras y percusión
Álbum núm. 1, para guitarra
Suite Bergidum, 1992
Álbum infantil núm. 2, 1993
Concierto, para cuatro guitarras y orquesta
Suite de danzas populares, para guitarra y piano, 1994
Cinco contradanzas cubanas, 1995, para guitarra y piano
Fantasía son, e Iya, mo dukpe fobaé, 1996
Entrequatre, para cuatro guitarras
Soñada en Gijon (11 string guitar) dedicate to Christian Lavernier
See also
Music of Cuba
References
External links
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxkI_U_V8knqvqF9LjegBBg
http://www.19trastes.com/fchaviano.htm
http://floreschaviano.blogspot.com/
http://www.caimanbarbudo.cu/entrevistas/2014/09/entrevista-con-flores-chaviano/
http://www.compositoresfaic.com/compositores-curriculum.php?idComp=221
CTV
Hispanocuba
Sibiu European Capital of Culture 2007 sobre su obra presentada por el Instituto Cervantes
Artículo sobre theCapiltheMusical Esteban Salas Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine