Juan M. - Orlando Tutor or Private Instructor

Profile of Juan M.

Full-Time, 10 + Years of Experience

Venezuelan baritone, born in Carora, Lara. He has an extensive international career as a singer of opera, zarzuela, oratory, recitals and musicals . He began his musical training in his childhood with his father in voice and clarinet. In 1978 started his voice education in Caracas with Isabel Palacios at the Juan Jos Landaeta Music School. He made his debut that year with the Sim n Bolivar Symphony Orchestra in the Mozart's Vesperas Solemnes de Confesores. In 1983 he won a scholarship to continue his studies in the United States, where he studied singing, clarinet, choral and orchestral conducting and obtained a degree in music from The University of Madison, Wisconsin in 1988.

In 1995 Juan won the Latin-American Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition and had an important participation at its Philadelphia Final. During the period 1995/1999, he performed many lieder recitals, oratory and lots of Zarzuela (Spanish operetta) tittles in America (Gavilanes, Luisa Fernanda, Maravilla, Leyenda del Beso, etc.). His opera career has taken him to Peru, Ecuador, El Salvador, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Venezuela, The Dominican Republic, The United States, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Romania, Bulgaria and Korea.

In 2004 he sang Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the Murcia Symphony Orchestra, Germano (Rossini's Scala di Seta), Lescaut (Massenet's Manon) at the Teatro Villamarta de Jerez and Bizet's Carmen in L rida and Montilla.
He has sang Rossini's Scala di Seta at Lugo's Rossini Festival (Italy), Bach's Cantata n 82: Ich habe genuch in Pamplona, Simone Boccanegra in the Gran Canaria's Opera Festival, L'Elisir d'Amore (Teatro Teresa Carre o-Caracas), Opening Opera Gala with Aquiles Machado at the VI Edition of Galicia International Music Festival, Beethoven's 9th Symphony in Santiago de Compostela with the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra, Germont, Sharpless and Escamillo at the Madrid Summer Festival, and a Latin American Tour with a Zarzuela Anthology. He has sang Massenet's Werther at Palacio de Festivales de Santander Teather, Falla's Retablo de Maese Pedro at Rotterdam, Carmina Burana at San Sebastian and a lyric concert in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

Among his recent engagements he has sang Rigoletto, in Venezuela with the scenic direction of Aquiles Machado. And he is singing Sharpless (Madame Butterfly) in a Spanish tour. He has been critically-acclaimed in the VII Edition of the Galicia International Music Festival, in the role of Roque, in the Spanish opera Marina. He has sang Malatesta (Don Paquale) in Spain. Later on, he has an important participation in the Mercadante's Pelayo in Jovellanos Theater in Gijn, Spain. Among his next engagements he will sing Marcello (La Boh Me) in the Palacio de Festivales de Santander. Father Capulet ( Romeo and Juliette), Michonet (Adriana Lecouvreur), Don Giovanni and Leporello, Conte and Figaro ( Nozze di Figaro), are some of his most interpreted opera roles.

Music, singing, playing clarinet, guitar, cuatro, piano, harmony and sight reading, sports (soccer player), baseball, etc. I speak Spanish, Italian and French. Father of four grown kids and I`ll be a grandfather this coming December.

Profile Details:

• Male
• 49 years old
• 10 + years of experience