Venezuela’s more important blog on classical music covers the catalog’s release on the most influential cello platform in the internet world
Horacio is invited to a Cellochat in a week that also features Lawrence Lesser, Matt Haimowitz, and Mark Kosower. The event will be hosted at CelloBello’s Facebook live and YouTube live streaming, on Saturday 05/02 at 8 pm EST
The recital wowed the audience according to the reviewer
Activities included a concert, lectures, and outreach.
Contreras parterres with the Sphinx Organization and Venezuelan cellist German Marcano in the release of the largest database with information about works for cello written by Latin American composers. The catalog is free and available online at the website of Sphinx. Click here to browse the catalog.
Contreras’ Exercises for the Cello in Various Combinations of Double-Stops obtained an excellent review at the American String Teachers Journal. The reviewer highly recommends the work, describing it as “An excellent addition to the serious cellist’s etude arsenal.” Please refer to the American String Teachers Journal, Vol 69, Issue 3, 2019 (August 2019)
The concert will include the work for cello solo “Open Borders” by Venezuelan born composer Ricardo Lorenz
Contreras releases a cello adaptation of the famed Exercises in Various Combinations of Double-Stops by Dr. Roland Vamos. The book was released by the prestigious editorial house Carl Fischer Music. It was reviewed by himself Dr. Vamos and also by Professor Richard Aaron.
Horacio will join the 2017 cello faculty with Wei Yu and guest faculty members Richard Aaron and Anthony Elliott.
The Lawrence Conservatory of Music is excited to announce that Dr. Horacio Contreras will join our faculty as our new Assistant Professor of Cello.
The Music Institute of Chicago has appointed Venezuelan cellist Horacio Contreras to the faculty of its Community Music School and Academy programme for gifted pre-college students.
The Venezuelan musician, trained in the ranks of the System of Children and Youth Orchestras of Venezuela, will soon be invited professor at the University of Michigan.
This Thursday, July 2, at 7:30 pm the Symphony Orchestra of Lara, under the leadership of...the soloist participation of the Venezuelan cellist Horacio Contreras, will start the First Latin American Festival of Violoncello Ciudad de Barquisimeto 2015.