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About...
Emanuel Olivieri is Principal Viola of the Puerto Rico Symphony
Orchestra, and professor of Viola, Theory, and String
Department Coordinator at the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music.
He has performed
extensively as solo and chamber musician in such venues as the Casals
Festival, the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, the Ponce Art Museum, the
Havana Contemporary Music Festival, and the Carmel Bach Festival in California, where he
served as co-principal viola. He produced the recording Música de Puerto Rico
para viola y piano, playing both instruments. He also recorded the soundtrack for Jack Delano's animated film,
Los
aguinaldos del infante.
He is a founding member of Camerata Filarmónica
Inc., a non-profit organization
for the development of music and musicians in Puerto Rico.
As a conductor he has led classical concerts (Fantasía Barroca),
educational concerts (Zoológico musical), Operetta (Bastian und
Bastienne, Der Schauspieldirektor), Zarzuela (La dolorosa, Las bodas de Luis
Alonso) and
several pops programs as guest conductor of the Puerto Rico Philharmonic
Orchestra, Arturo Somohano.
His arrangements of pop and movie themes have been performed by the Puerto
Rico Symphony and Puerto Rico Philharmonic. He has more than twenty arrangements
of Puerto Rican music for string quartet. He just finished composing music for
the short film Ana y la muñeca by Sigrid Piñero.
Education
- Master's degree in Viola Performance from the Manhattan School of Music;
studied with
Emanuel Vardi, Lillian Fuchs, and Leonard Davis.
- Private lessons with Jean Dane, principal viola Mostly Mozart Orchestra
- Conducting lessons with David Gilbert, assistant conductor of the New York
Philharmonic, and Roselín Pabón, assistant conductor of the Puerto Rico Symphony
- Bachelor's degree in Viola Performance from the Puerto Rico Music Conservatory,
under Guillermo Figueroa
- Bachelor in Sciences degree (Mathematics) from the University of Puerto
Rico at Río Piedras
- Began viola lessons since age eleven with Francisco Figueroa at the Conservatory Children's
Program (now Preparatory School)
Workshops and Seminars
- Suzuki Violin Teacher Training with John Kendall (Bk.1), Susan Kempter (Bks.
1 and 2), and Michelle George (Bks. 3 and 4)
- Suzuki Piano Teacher Training with Diana Galindo (Bk. 1)
- Jazz in July workshop, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, with
John Blake, Billy Taylor, and the Turtle Island String Quartet (2002)
- Oberlin Baroque Institute (2003)
- Attended classes of Jeff Irvine (Aspen Music Festival, 2004) and Roland Vamos
(Musicorda, 2005)
- Attended the 34th International Viola Congress in Montreal (2006)
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