Nationality: Puerto Rican

Categories
Contemporary Puerto Rican

CORDERO, Ernesto

Ernesto Cordero

Born in New York, Aug 9, 1946

  • Guitarist and composer Ernesto Cordero was born in New York and grew up in Puerto Rico.
    • He studied guitar and theory at the Madrid Conservatory, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, and the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena.
  • As a composer, Cordero primarily writes for the guitar. His music is characterized by neo-classical adherence to traditional harmony and forms while occasionally incorporating the rhythms and melodic elements of Puerto Rican folk music.
  • Cordero has been on the faculty at the University of Puerto Rico since 1971.1

Learn More:

Composer’s website

Pieces

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Romantic Puerto Rican

MOREL CAMPOS, Juan

Juan Morel Campos

Born in Ponce, PR, May 16, 1857 
Died in Ponce, May 12, 1896 

  • Morel Campos was a composer, organist, pianist, and conductor who studied with Puerto Rican composer Manuel Gregorio Tavárez.  
  • Morel Campos was best known as a composer and conductor of the Puerto Rican social dance genre danza. He also composed and directed zarzuelas (Spanish/Latin American operettas): he toured South America as director of the Compañia de Zarzuela Española Bernard y Arabella.2

Biography from AfriClassical 

Pieces