Evencio Castellanos
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| Born | May 3, 1915 Cúa, Miranda state, Venezuela |
| Died | March 16, 1984 Caracas, Venezuela |
Evencio Castellanos was born in Cúa, Miranda state, May 3, 1915, pianist, composer and director of choirs and orchestra. They were his parents Pablo Castellanos and Matilde Yumar. His musical initiation took place of the hand of his father, Pablo Castellanos, who was organist and masterful of chapel.
In 1938, he entered in the Caracas Musical Declamation Academy (today "José Ángel Lamas"), where he studied song with Antonio Pardo Soublette, violoncello with Carlos Áñez, history of music with Juan Bautista Plaza and harmony and composition with Vicente Emilio Sojo.
The July 4 of 1944 he graduated like teacher - composer, and as so he comprised of the first generation of withdrawn composers of the chair of composition of the Sojo teacher, who in their musical creations, oriented theirself towards the nationalistic tendency.
In 1946, he was called to direct the University Choir, for which he composed the university anthem, with base to a text of Luis Pastori and Tomás Alfaro Calatrava. Between August of 1947 and September of 1949, he was called to account in New York where he made studies of improvement of piano with Carlos Buhler. In his return to Venezuela, he worked in the Caracas Cathedral, integrated the choir and he in addition, organist and teacher of chapel. Also, he was integrant of Orfeón Lamas, during 15 years, instrumentalist of the Venezuela Symphony orchestra. Parallel to his life like musician, exerted teaching in different chairs from the Superior School of Music in functions such as junior instructor of piano (1938-1947), professor of piano, nocturnal chair (1945-1947), professor of key (instrument) (1946-1972), professor of musical composition (1957-1964) and director of the school (1965-1972). Vice-president of the Board of directors of the Venezuela Symphony orchestra(1950-1951 and 1959), was member of the Consultative Superior Council of the same one, president of the Venezuela Association de Authors and Composers (1958-1959), director-founder of the Collegium Musicum de Caracas, director of the Student Orchestra of the Central University of Venezuela (1969) and director of the Experimental Orchestra of the Symphony orchestra Venezuela, to which he directed in his inaugural concert, May 15 of 1970.
From 1979 to 1984, one evolved like musical adviser of the Latin American Institute of Investigations and Musical Studies Vicente Emilio Sojo. Throughout his musical trajectory, Evencio Castellanos obtained diverse awards and recognitions like the Athenian special prize of Caracas corresponding to the aid Teresa Carreño (1952) by his Tribute to Teresa Carreño, the National Prize of Music (1954) by his symphonic poem Santa Cruz de Pacairigua and the National Prize of Music (1962) by profane his oratorio the Tirano Aguirre. Through his executions and adjustments, he imposed a shining pianistic style that expressed in its compilations and harmonizations of waltzes of hall.
Evencio Castellanos died in Caracas, March 16, 1984 at age 68.
