The teacher Miguel Ángel Echeverría.
This Thursday, March 9, the Symphony Orchestra of the City of Asunción (OSCA) will offer its first concert of the year, starting at 8:00 p.m. at the Ignacio A. Pane Municipal Theater of Asunción. Access will be free and open.
The OSCA will inaugurate its 2023 season with a special program directed by the maestro Miguel Angel Echeverria in his double role as composer and orchestral director.
His work includes symphonic music and popular compositions, brought together for the first time in a complete program. José Miguel Echeverría (violin), Rosita Orué (singing), Andrés Pérez (singing), Jorge Servián (singing) and Marcos Lucena (harp) will participate as invited artists.
The show integrates the agenda of the Summer Cycle of the Ignacio A. Pane Municipal Theater.
MIGUEL ANGEL ECHEVERRIA
Echeverría is a conductor, violinist and violist, he is also the author of several national works premiered with the OSCA and the OCMA. She studied violin and viola at the Faculty of Music of the University of Laval in Quebec (Canada). On several occasions she appeared with the Quebec Symphony Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of Maestro André Martin.
Upon his return to Paraguay, he was invited to join the Symphony Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of the State of Paraíba (Brazil), where he stayed for two years, enrolling in the Paraíba Music School, where he continued to study perfecting harmony, counterpoint , orchestral arrangements and orchestral direction.
He served as Director of the Municipal Conservatory of Music of Asunción, creating the first Youth Orchestra of the Institution. He was the first Director of the Amati Conservatory in Philadelphia (Chaco Paraguayo). He performed with Philomúsica at Expo Sevilla (Spain). He was invited to join and conduct the Hutchinson Symphony and Chamber Orchestra, Kansas (United States).
It was presented at the San Martín Cultural Center in Buenos Aires (Argentina). He was the first President of Juventudes Musicales del Paraguay. He is concert master of the OSCA and Principal Director of the (OCMA). In 1999 he was invited by the Symphonicum Europae Foundation to integrate the Symphony Orchestra with more than 100 musicians from 50 countries to offer the “Millennium Concert” at the Lincoln
Center of New York.
Since 2002 he has been an Itinerant Professor of the Project “Sounds of the Earth”. In 2009 he was invited as a violin soloist by the Saint Louis University Symphony Orchestrasand the Saint Louis Civic Orchestra.
He has collaborated with the String Orchestra of the city of Formosa (Argentina) and was distinguished by the Evangelical University of Paraguay with the title “Dr.Honoris Causa” for his long and fruitful teaching work, as well as for his important support for fifteen years. uninterrupted to the Faculty of Music of CEMTA. He is currently a professor at the Faculty of Music of the Evangelical University of Paraguay.
