Francisco Zapata Bello

Francisco Zapata Bello (born September 10, 1948 in Caracas ) is a Venezuelan composer, conductor and guitarist.

Life

Zapata studied at the Caracas Music School with Manuel Enrique Pérez Díaz until 1977 , then until 1980 in Madrid and Tilburg . He studied composition with Modesta Bor , Inocente Carreño , Yannis Ioannidis , Antonio Mastrogiovanni , Raimundo Pereira , Francisco Rodrigo and Héctor Tosar and studied choral and orchestral conducting with Michel Eustache Vilaire , Alberto Grau and Gonzalo Castellanos Yumar .

From 1992 to 1996 he produced and directed the radio show La Guitarra , and in Caracas the show Entre cuerdas . He is the conductor of the vocal ensemble Entre Voces, which he founded, and teaches and teaches choral conducting and guitar at the Prudencio Esaá music school .

He received the Premio José Clemente Laya for chamber music (1982), the Premio municipal de Música Sinfónica (1987) and the second prize in the Concurso de Música Coral a Cappella (1990).

Works

• Suite anacrónica for guitar, 1980–90
• Cuarteto para Cuerdas No. 1 , 1981
• Valse grotesco for two pianos, 1983
• Densidades for large orchestra, 1983–86
• Díptico for mixed choir (text by Federico García Lorca ), 1984
• Antagonismos for piano, 1984
• El Secuestro de la Mujer de Antonio for dancers, speakers, mixed choir and large orchestra, 1984–88
• El Mar for mixed choir (text by Vicente Aleixandre ), 1986
• Merenguasa for piano, 1987
• Ave María for mixed choir, 1988
• Cinco Momentos en la Luna de Fausto for large orchestra, 1992–94
• Missa brevis for mixed choir, 1993
• Cuarteto para Cuerdas No. 2 , 1995
• Variantes Suite for guitar, 1997–98
• Cuatro Danzas for guitar, 1999
• Preludio y Fuga Modal for string orchestra, 1999
• Tres Piezas populares venezolanas for guitar, 1999–2002
• Preludio Coral y Variaciones fugadas sobre 'El San Pedro' for three voices, 2001

Web links

• Short biography