Joropo Jam

Manuel Alejandro Rangel

Maracas

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2005 Winner of the award to the best Maracas Player of the Festival De La Música Llanera (Music from the Plains Festival) “El Silbón De Oro”. Portuguesa – Venezuela. 2008 Winner of the International Festival of Villavicencio – Colombia.

Winner of the Latin Grammy – Certificate of participation in the album “Tesoros De La Música Venezolana” (Treasures of venezuelan music) by Ilan Chester.
Maracas player soloist with the Symphony Orchestra of the state of Lara, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Venezuela, The Tatuí Symphony Orchestra – Brazil in Concert for Maraca and Orchestra PATARUCO by Ricardo Lorenz, Symphony Orchestra Simón Bolivar. Classical Guitarist Graduate from the Conservatory of Music Vicente Emilio Sojo.

Several tours with different musical projects around Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Bolivia, Brazil, France, Spain, Portugal, Turkey and the United States. Venezuelan maracas workshops delivered at Tatuí Conservatory of music – Brazil, Tomar Conservatory of music – Portugal, at the national Conservatory of Lima – Peru, at the University Berklee College Of Music, Boston – EEUU.

Selected from 2500 musicians from around the world to be the only Latin American to participate in the 2013 OneBeat program organized by the Department of State of The United States.

Musical production INSTINTO. A member of the Ensemble Movida Acústica Urbana, The Rock and MAU movement, and our groups Arcano, Kapicúa, Los Sinvergüenzas and Locos De Carretera. Professor of the
Maracas chair of the Conservatory Simón Bolivar, Caracas – Venezuela.

Leo Rondón

Cuatro

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He plays cuatro, guitar, mandoline, tiple, double bass and is a composer. He took the 3rd place in “La Siembra del Cuatro” in 2007, the 2nd place in “La Siembre del Cuatro” in 2012 and in 2011 the 2nd place in “El Silbón” and “San Martín”. After teaching cuatro soloist, music theory and doble bass at Merida School of Music (2003 – 2007), he has been an arranger of the “Orquesta Típica Merideña” (a venezuelan orchestra), a cuatro and doble bass player at the String Ensamble at the University of Los Andes and an arranger and composer for the “5 Numerao” ensamble. Since 2013 he is living in Paris.

During the summer in France, with a group of venezuelan musicians he develops a summer academy of Venezuelan Music. He has played in important halls and festivals in Venezuela, Colombia, Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Sweden, United Kingdom, Belgium, Netherlands and Morocco as a soloist or accompanying important musicians such as  Cristobal Soto, Ricardo Sandoval, Alexis Cardenas, Huascar Barradas, Luis Julio Toro, José Antonio Naranjo, Orlando Moret, Cecilia Todd, etc. He is currently living in France. He plays a Cuatro tailored made by the French Luthier Mathias Caron. www.lutheriecaron.fr.

Edwin Arellano

Electric Bass

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Fernando Alvarez

Oboe | Bandola Llnera

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Started his studies with Hernan Jerez in 1986 at the Cultural Center of Carora, Venezuela and carried on with the Master Jaime Martínez in Caracas, Venezuela. From 1996 until 2013 he was a member of the National System of Venezuelan Young Orchestras. In addition, he was the english horn solo of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra based on his country of origin, conducted by Alfredo Rugeles and Gustavo Dudamel. For several years he was part of the group «Carora en Concierto» where he played bandola, a self-taught instrument. He joined the «Avila Quartet» in 2014, where he plays oboe and bandola, as well as the group «Joropo Jam» in 2017.

He shares his passion for music with the sciences as he obtained a physics degree from the Central University of Venezuela and a Master degree in Acoustics from the University of Aix-Marseille. In France since 2013, he collaborated with the Aix-Marseille University Symphony Orchestra (OSAMU), the ensemble of contemporary music «C Barré» , and the Orchestra of the Al Bustan Festival in Beirut, Lebanon.