Ana María Raga
| Ana María Raga | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 16, 1967 Caracas, Venezuela |
| Occupation | Conductor |
Ana María Raga (Caracas, Venezuela, December 16, 1967) is a Venezuelan musician, choir and orchestra director, pianist, arranger, composer and teacher. She has won national and international prizes in the field of choral singing. She is the founder and president of the Aequalis Foundation.
Choirs directed by her: - Aequalis Aurea, female voices - Colegio Humboldt Choral Project, children and adolescents (between 4 and 17 years) - MonteAvila University Choir - Schola Cantorum de Venezuela, formerly Schola Cantorum de Caracas which she directs with Maria Guinand
Raga started her training as a musician at the “Juan Manuel Olivares” Music School and obtained her Piano Performer degree in 1990 under the tutelage of Marisa Romera. She holds a bachelor's degree in Choral Conducting from the University Institute for Musical Studies (today Universidad de las Artes (UNEARTE) [University of the Arts]) obtained under the guidance of Alberto Grau. Raga has taken Composition and Choral Conducting Courses given by internationally recognized masters and professors such as Alberto Grau, Vic Nees, Robert Sund. Willy Gohl, Werner Pfaff, Erkki Pohjola, Helmuth Rilling and Frieder Bernius and Orchestral Conducting with Helmuth Rilling and Alfredo Rugeles. In 2013 she obtained her master's degree in Orchestral Conducting from the Simón Bolívar University (Caracas, Venezuela). Her graduate work was distinguished with a special mention and recommendation for publication. Currently she is studying for a post graduate degree in Music Therapy at the Universidad de los Andes.
Professor Raga is a member of the Universidad de las Artes (UNEARTE) faculty where she teaches choral conducting. Furthermore, she collaborates as a professor training directors of children and youth choirs with the “Social Action through Music Program” sponsored by the Development Bank of Latin America (formerly known as Andean Development Corporation) in 8 countries. She has been a consultant to the Misión Música, managed by the Fundación Musical Simón Bolívar (also known as Fundación del Estado para el Sistema Nacional de Orquestas Juveniles e Infantiles de Venezuela (FESNOJIV) [National System of Youth and Children’s Orchestras of Venezuela] for the development of a “Symphonic Choirs System”.
As a guest conductor and pedagogue Raga participates in numerous festivals and events in Europe, Asia, North and South America. In Venezuela she gives courses for Children Choir Directors in Caracas and the interior. She has held workshops on Children Choral Repertoire at the IV América Cantat (Caracas, Venezuela), at the IV Junior Europa Cantat (Vic, Spain) and at the V America Cantat (La Habana, Cuba, 2007) festivals. In Hungary she has given courses on Latin-American Children Choir Music for students of Choir Direction at the Liszt Academy of Music in collaboration with the Hungarian Radio Children’s Choir (Budapest, Hungary, 2006). She has been invited to present workshops for children choir directors in León, Guanajuato, Mexico (2006) and on Latin-American Repertoire for Female Voices at the Busan Choral Festival and Competition in Korea (2007). In 2008 she attended an invitation to work with the choirs of the North American Choral Company in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA and at the Sixth International Cedros UP Festival (FICUP) she held workshops for choir directors and on Latin-American Children Choir Music. In 2009 she participated as a workshop leader in the fields of Children Choir Direction and Vocal Technique at the 13th edition of the Ágora Vocal Technique and Choir Direction Courses in Segovia, Spain, organized by the Ágora Choir and sponsored by the Don Juan de Borbón Foundation. In 2010 and 2011 she organized a workshop on Latin-American Music for Mixed Choirs at the Alpe Adria Cantat Festival in Lignano, Italy. Also in 2011 she held workshops at the Europa Cantat Junior Festival in Estonia. In August 2012 she held a workshop on Old Latin American Music at the Europa Cantat Festival in Turin. In 2012 and 2013 she led the training workshops offered by NEOJIBA, the System for Orchestras and Choirs of Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. In 2013 she held workshops for the music school network in Medellín, Colombia.
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