Rafael Villanueva

Rafael Villanueva Martínez ( born October 13, 1947 in Santo Domingo, † December 22, 1995 ibid ) was a Dominican conductor.

Villanueva studied from 1972 Politics and Economics at the University of Toronto and attended classes at the Royal Conservatory of Music. From 1973, he studied for four years at the Vienna Conservatory orchestra conducting with Karl Randolf as well as music theory and composition with Rüdiger Seitz.

In 1978, he debuted at the invitation of Manuel Simó as conductor of the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional of the Dominican Republic. His international debut as a conductor, he had in 1987 with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Maracaibo in Venezuela, in the following year he received an invitation from the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México for two concerts at the Palacio de Bellas Artes. From 1984 to 1995 he was conductor of the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional, from 1994, by decree of the President of the Dominican chief conductor.

In addition, worked Villanueva in 1987 as program director of Radio Clasica, organized conferences on musical and literary topics and wrote articles critical of culture. 1991 awarded him the Order of the Dominican government Heráldica de Cristóbal Colón in the rank of Caballero.

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  • El Tren de Yaguaramas - Rafael Villanueva
  • Man
  • Born in 1947
  • Died in 1995
  • Dominicans ( national )
  • Conductor
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