Nationality: Puerto Rican

CORDERO, Ernesto

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

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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

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Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1981

Angélica Negrón is a Puerto Rican-born composer and multi-instrumentalist currently living in Brooklyn, NY.
As a composer, Negrón writes music for voice, orchestra, chamber ensemble, and film (“as well as robots, toys, and plants”).
Negrón has been commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Opera Philadelphia, the New York Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Kronos Quartet, Roomful of Teeth, and Sō Percussion.
From Negrón’s website: “Angélica is known for playing with the unexpected intersection of classical and electronic music, unusual instruments, and found sounds.”³

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