Edward Pulgar is a Venezuelan violinist and conductor. Venezuela (ˌvɛnəˈzweɪlə) officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Spanish República Bolivariana de Venezuela) is a country on the The following lists of violinists are available List of classical violinists, names of great violinist from baroque era till 20th century Conducting is the act of directing a Musical performance by way of visible gestures
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Early life and education
Born in Caracas, Pulgar was trained through the National Youth Orchestra System in Venezuela. Caracas (kaˈɾakas is the Capital and largest city of Venezuela. He began musical studies at age eight in solfege, percussion and violin; his teachers included Giusseppe Maiolino, Miroslaw Kulikowsky, and Józef Szatanek. In Music, solfège ('soʊlfɛʒ also called solfeggio, sol-fa, or solfa) is a Pedagogical Solmization technique for the The violin is a bowed String instrument with four strings usually tuned in Perfect fifths It is the smallest and highest-pitched member At thirteen years old, he won the special prize in the Juan Bautista Plaza V National Violin Competition and several other competitions in Venezuela. He continued his studies in violin and orchestral conducting at the Conservatorio José Luis Paz of Maracaibo, the Conservatorio Simón Bolívar, and the Latin-American Violin Academy under José Francisco del Castillo in Caracas. Maracaibo is the second-largest city in Venezuela after the national capital Caracas and is the capital of Zulia state The Latin-American Violin Academy (Academia Latinoamericana de Violín was created in 1991 by José Antonio Abreu to consolidate and expand the teaching career of the eminent Pulgar earned an artist diploma from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh and recently a masters in music performance from Michigan State University. Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit is a private Catholic university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Michigan State University ( MSU) is a co-educational public Research university in East Lansing, Michigan USA.
Career
Pulgar has played as a soloist with several symphonic orchestras in Venezuela, and at concert halls throughout South America, the United States and Europe, including Teresa Carreño Cultural Complex of Caracas, Centro de Arte Lía Bermúdez of Maracaibo, Panama's National Theatre, Beethovensaal of Stuttgart and Bonn, Teatro Colón of Bogotá, and the PNC Recital Hall and Carnegie Music Hall in Pittsburgh. An orchestra is an instrumental ensemble, usually fairly large with string brass woodwind sections and possibly a percussion section as well A concert hall is a cultural building which serves as performance venue chiefly for classical instrumental music South America is a Continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The Teresa Carreño Cultural Complex ( Complejo Cultural Teresa Carreño) or more commonly the Teresa Carreño Theater ( Teatro Teresa Carreño) is one Panama, officially the Republic of Panama (República de Panamá) is the southernmost country of Central America. Stuttgart (ˈʃtʊtgaɐ̯t is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia Bogotá —officially named Bogotá DC (DC for " Distrito Capital " which means "Capital District" formerly called Santa Fe de Bogotá At twenty years old, Pulgar made his debut as a conductor with the Fifth Symphony by Tchaikovsky and the Zulia Symphony Orchestra. The Symphony No 5 in E minor (Op 64 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was composed between May and August 1888 and was first performed in St Petersburg on November Estado Zulia is one of Venezuela 's 23 states ''(estados''. The state capital is Maracaibo. The same year he became concertmaster of the Zulia Symphony, and three years later he became a member of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela. The concertmaster / mistress, or concert Meister (from German Konzertmeister) is the leader of the first Violin section of a Symphony The Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar ( Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra) is a Venezuelan youth orchestra Venezuela (ˌvɛnəˈzweɪlə) officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Spanish República Bolivariana de Venezuela) is a country on the He has also been a member of the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra in Michigan and associate principal violin of the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra in West Virginia. Michigan ( is a Midwestern state of the United States of America. Wheeling is a city in West Virginia, in the United States. Most of the city is in Ohio County, with a small West Virginia ( is a state in the Appalachian Upland South, and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States, bordered by
Pulgar continues his work in solo and chamber music in the U. S. and Latin America, along with guest appearances as conductor. He is the founding first violinist of the Vocis String Quartet and Associate Principal Violinist of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra in Tennessee.
Critical reviews
"Large and beautiful sonority, with impeccable intonation. . . . "
". . . The concerto was superbly executed by Edward Pulgar. . . "
"In the Saint-Saëns, Pulgar exploited with great freedom the possibilities of the violin. . . "
"The audience gave back [to Mr. Pulgar] the same stamp he sealed in both pieces of very high levels of technique, with much applause and a well-deserved ovation. . . "
"A soloist of admirable pedagogy. . . "
"[Mr. ] Edward Pulgar draws music when he conducts"
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