Francisco Zumaque

Francisco Zumaque ( born July 18, 1945 in Cereté in Monteria, Colombia) is a Colombian musician. His father, Francisco Sr. Zumaque worked as a musician and led a band. Thus, the young Francisco came very early into contact with the music.

After a very good university degree at the Universidad Nacional in Bogotá, he received a scholarship to learn at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, France and Postgraduate under Nadia Boulanger. Nadia Boulanger guideline had been successful already with artists such as Astor Piazzolla: To admit his own musical tradition without letting the means of contemporary music in mind. This was also to Zumaqués theme, both in E and in the underground music. This duality also used Zumaque to test both young, innovative elements and adapting them for serious works, such as to create also popular Latino music for the heart and head.

His musical career includes highlights such as the premiere of his Oratorio de la paz ( Oratorio for Peace) in 1985 at the meeting of the Organization of American States in Cartagena, Colombia, in 1983, premiered his opera Simón, in honor of the liberator of northern South America Simon Bolivar area, or his setting of the film adaptation of the novel by Gabriel García Márquez " La mala hora ".

Zumaque felt at home in various genres. He has worked in France from 1971 to 1977 with Pierre Schaeffer and Guy Reibel in the field of electroacoustic music. From 1979 to 1981 he worked as a composer and arranger of the orchestra of the Fania All-Stars in the United States. Eclectic as may appear his work, he has always strived to make the rich diversity of Latin American music traditions into a piece of world culture.

From 1986 to 1990 worked Francisco Zumaque as cultural attaché at the Colombian Embassy in the former German capital Bonn.

Discography

  • 2000 Fascinación Caribe, CD, Orquesta Caribe Fascinación. Zumaque Music
  • 2001 Fascinación Caribe, CD, Orquesta Caribe Fascinación. Fonocaribe
  • Cultural Attaché
  • Colombian
  • Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
  • Born in 1945
  • Man
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