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Cristian F. Grases (born December 22, 1973)〔''U.S. Public Records Index'' Vol 2 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.〕 is an internationally known Venezuelan conductor/composer. He received his Master's Degree with honors in Choral Conducting from the Simón Bolívar University in Venezuela in 2001, where he studied with María Guinand and Alberto Grau and completed his DMA at the University of Miami Frost School of Music in 2009. ==Biography== Born December 22, 1973 in Caracas, Venezuela, Grases started his musical studies in the National Conservatory of Music "Juan José Landaeta” at age 11, where he studied music theory, harmony, counterpoint, history, and piano. His musical life started as a chorister and instrumentalist in 1989, and then as composer, assistant conductor and conductor of choral and instrumental ensembles until the present. He has studied composition, arranging, choral conducting and orchestra conducting with national and international music masters. After two “Bach-academie” workshops with Helmuth Rilling in Venezuela, Grases was invited by Rilling under a scholarship to study Choral and Orchestral Conducting at the “Sommerakademie” of Stuttgart, Germany, in 1998. In 1995 he founded "Cíncopah", a 5 male vocal ensemble that is dedicated to the creation of new music based in vocal and jazz tendencies, working with them until 2002. From 1996 to 2002 he was part of the staff of the project "Pequeños Cantores de la Schola” as the conductor of the Second Level and Cantoría Juvenil. In the same year he received a very prestigious award for the arts in Venezuela: "Orden José Felix Ribas" for artistic merit. He also won the first and second prize in a choral arrangement competition "Estilo Caribeño"; He has been involved in many international concert tours with his former youth choir Cantoría Juvenil of the Schola Cantorum de Caracas (Venezuela), and the Iowa Youth Chorus (USA); earning international prestige and recognition. He has served as guest conductor in concerts and workshops nationally and internationally; has developed himself as the coordinator of the choral activities in the Youth Orchestra Foundation of Caracas under the direction of Jose Antonio Abreu; and has taught choral conducting, history and general music at the graduate and graduate programs in the Simon Bolivar University of Caracas, Central Washington University in Washington State, and University of Miami in Florida, USA. He was selected to be one of the 16 participants of the Swedish competition for young conductors “Eric Ericson Award” in October 2003. In 2004 he was selected by the IFCM (International Federation for Choral Music) as one of the 5-member committee for the Songbridge Project, together with renowned choral masters and chaired by the creator of the project: Erkki Pohjola (Finland) () In 2007, Grases founded Amazonia Vocal Ensemble () part of Amazonia Music Corp. (a 501(c)3 non-profit organization), which is one of the first vocal performing arts ensembles in the United States dedicated primarily to the performance and preservation of Latin American choral music. He conducted Amazonia for two years before leaving Miami. He acts now as Amazonia's Artistic Director. In the fall of 2009, Grases served as an associate professor at The California State University in Los Angeles (), teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses, and directing the university ensembles. Grases currently teaches at the University of Southern California where he conducts the Thornton Concert Choir since 2010. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cristian Grases」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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