Angel Hernandez: Diabelli-Contest 2014

Angel Hernandez Formed in the National Orchestra System, under the leadership and guide of the Master Jose Antonio Abreu, this young Composer and Director had graduated in the Latin-American Composition Chair. He was born in San Carlos city, Cojedes state, Venezuela, on 1984, starting his music studies in 1996 as a member of the Young Symphonic Orchestra in the Violin Chair, with the professor Jenny Malandrucco and Music Theory with Professor Rafael Portillo.
In 2004, he gets into the Latin-American Composition Chair under the tutelage of the Master Blas Atehortua, and where he graduates as a Composer. His works goes from chamberistic genders to symphonies. During 2008 & 2009, he receives masterly classes with the polish Composer Kristofv Penderesky, when he was in Venezuela, with outstanding critics. In july 2012 Hernandez participated in the 46 Internationale Fereinkurse fur Neue Musik in Darmstadt, Germany, attending to several conferences, meetings and classes with great Masters, such as Pascal Gallois, Peter Veale, Thomas Wangersommer, Eva Furrer, Donatienne Michel-Dansac and had been individual student of the Masters Jorge Sanchez-Chiong, German Toro-Pérez, Rebeca Saunders and Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, focused in work music interdisciplinary techniques, video and contemporary dance.
His pieces had been interpreted by prestigious soloist, groups and festivals, such as Interco temporary Paris Ensemble, the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra, EntreOboes Festival (Rosario, Argentina), Latin American Music Festival (Caracas, Venezuela), and in variety of countries: Austria, Argentina, USA, Venezuela and France, among others, gaining important reviews of national and international Masters. In 2013, after been selected in concurs, he wrote the orchestral music for the Carupano’s city anthem.
As a guess Director, he had worked with several Venezuelan orchestras, such as Rafael Urdaneta Symphonic, Antonio Vivaldi Chamber Orchestra, The Aragua Symphony Orchestra and the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra, and has accompanied important soloists, such as Mercedes Salazar (Violin), Héctor Barrios (Fagot), Luis Quintero (Guitar), Miguel Sánchez (Tenor) Daniel López Calvo (Violin) and others. He was the chief Conductor of the Cojedes Youth Symphony Orchestra (2003-2008), Miranda’s Children Foundation Orchestra (2009-2010) and Baruta Chamber Orchestra (2010-2012).
Among his awards and recognitions, we can find: winner of the mention “Best Free Work” in the second edition of the International Composition Contest Antonin Dvorak (Prague, 2011), semi-finalist “National Composition Contest” (Caracas, 2013) and the “Ciudad de Tinaco Order”, First Class.
In the present, he serves as a Resident Composer for “El Sistema”, The Venezuelan Orchestras and Chorus System, besides continuing his superior composition studies at the Joseph Haydn Conservatory in Eisenstadt and with Jorge Sánchez Chiong in Viena