Ángel Reyes

Ángel Reyes Camejo (* 1889 in Matanzas ; † after 1941) was a Cuban composer and violinist.

Reyes studied in Cienfuegos with Cesar Bonafu and in Havana with Pedro Sanjuán . He became a follower of the music theory of the Mexican composer Julián Carrillo, known as Sonido 13, and headed a Grupo Sonido 13 in Havana . In 1932 he became cultural attaché in the Cuban Embassy in Paris .

Reyes later lived in the United States, where he taught at the University of Michigan and Northwestern University . He was also a member of the Northwestern Piano Trio with Gui Mombaerts (piano) and Dudley Powers (cello). At times he played the famous "Lipinski" by Stradivari , on which he recorded in 1942 with the Orquesta Filarmónica de la Habana under Massimo Freccia Glasunov's violin concerto. He also owned the "Kreisler Bergonzi" from Carlo Bergonzi .

Reyes' son Angel Reyes (1919–1988) also made a name for himself as a violinist. The student of the Conservatoire de Paris reached tenth place in the international Ysaye (Reine Elisabeth) competition in Brussels in 1937 , made his debut in Carnegie Hall under Eugene Ormandy in 1941 and worked as a professor at several universities in the USA.

Works

• Poema symphonico
• Suite and Concierto para violín and orquesta
• Tambó para quinteto
• Yemayá para violín y piano
• Fantasía para arpa