Jaime Figueroa

Jaime "Kachiro" Figueroa Sanabia (born February 15, 1910 in Río Piedras ; † January 12, 2003 ) was a Puerto Rican violinist.

Life

The son of the composer and conductor Jesús Figueroa began his career as a musical prodigy. He performed at the age of six and at the age of eleven had played violin concertos by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Henryk Wieniawski and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . He studied at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid , where he received first prizes in violin and chamber music as well as the Sarasate Prize .

Enrique Fernández Arbós then invited him as a soloist to a concert with the Madrid Symphony Orchestra, where Figueroa played Glasunov's violin concerto . After a concert tour through Spain, Portugal and North Africa, he went to the École Normale de Musique de Paris , where he studied with Jacques Thibaud and Marcel Chailley and obtained the License de Concert . He played in the school's orchestra under the direction of Alfred Cortot and worked as concertmaster of the Orquestre Siohan with Arthur Honegger , Igor Stravinsky and Nadia Boulanger .

At the Wieniawski violin competition in Warsaw in 1935 Figueroa took seventh place. Until the beginning of the Second World War he was a violin teacher at the Real Conservatorio , after which he returned to Puerto Rico. There he performed with his own string quartet and as concertmaster of the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra and taught at the San Juan Conservatory.

Jamie Figueroa died on January 12, 2003.

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personal data
SURNAME	Figueroa, Jaime
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Figueroa, Kachiro; Figueroa Sanabio, Jaime
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Puerto Rican violinist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 15, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH	Río Piedras , Puerto Rico
DATE OF DEATH	January 12, 2003