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Rafael Antonio Nazario (also Raphael, or "Raf Nazario"; b. July 30, 1952), is a Puerto Rican-born pianist, composer and arranger and actor. He has also had a parallel career as chef, author〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/9685547009 )〕 and occasional wine writer.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://vinoveracity.com/ )〕 Nazario's recordings have ranged from Latin music to instrumental compositions, pop songs in English, classical-oriented piano and orchestral works. His debut album, ''Patria Añorada'' (1999, reissued 2004), contains songs in a variety of Hispanic-American styles and showcased a talent for jazz-influenced arrangements and lyrical sophistication. Nazario also managed to include idioms and vernacular rooted in Puerto Rico's Jíbaro culture and in doing so, he evoked the nueva canción and nueva trova styles of Hispanic-American music. ==Early life and education== Nazario was born in the Santurce district of Romualdo Real—of the ''Puerto Rico Ilustrado'' magazine, and later the newspaper ''El Mundo (Puerto Rico)" TITLE="San Juan, Puerto Rico], the son of Elvira Piñeiro Prieto and Rafael Nazario Cardona, a newspaper pressman. Rafael Sr was the eldest of 18, and according to the family's oral history, their father, Francisco Nazario was one of the founders—along with Romualdo Real—of the ''Puerto Rico Ilustrado'' magazine, and later the newspaper ''El Mundo (Puerto Rico)">El Mundo''. His mother was of Spanish (Canarian), Portuguese and Dutch ancestry. His maternal grandfather, Amador Piñeiro, was one of the last train station superintendents on the island. Rafael Sr. moved the family to Costa Rica when Nazario was a few months old and years later settled in Jersey City, New Jersey, where Nazario attended St Aedens School. They returned to Puerto Rico when Nazario was nine years of age and he eventually studied at the De La Salle (Christian Brothers) School in the suburban city of Bayamón, where they lived. It was at La Salle that Nazario first got involved in theatre, under the direction of Luis J. Cruz. Upon graduation from high school, Nazario left the island intent upon studying piano and music composition, living temporarily with his godparents in Miami, Florida. As he did not play an instrument and had never taken a music lesson, he did not win a place at any colleges he approached. However, an admission-board member at the University of Notre Dame admired the young man's initiative. Rev. Michael J. Heppen, C.S.C., invited Nazario to apply to the University of Portland, where he was Director of Admissions. University of Portland's Dean of Music, Philippe de la Mare, was in France that summer, visiting his former teacher, Nadia Boulanger. In this manner, Nazario gained entry to the University of Portland School of Music even though his entire repertoire consisted of less than a minute of Beethoven's Sonata No. 14 (popularly known as the “Moonlight Sonata”). A classmate stepped in to tutor Nazario: Tim Gorman, already an experienced musician at 18. The pair soon became best friends. Nazario went on to spend his sophomore year of studies in Salzburg, Austria, where he attended University of Portland classes, as well as the Paris Lodron University. While in Salzburg, he became a member of the (Salzburg Drama Gruppe ), performing in plays directed by Ilse Lackenbauer. He returned to Portland to graduate, achieving a Bachelor of Music degree in the Composition program. 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「Rafael Nazario」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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