Paulo Alvarado (born 1960) is a Guatemalan cellist, composer and producer born in Guatemala. He studied architecture at Universidad Rafael Landívar but dropped out in 1983 to become a full-time member of the groundbreaking Guatemalan rock band Alux Nahual.[1] Besides his role in that band, continuing to date, he is notable for exploring the use of the cello in a variety of contexts[2] and is active in classical music. In 1992 he founded Cuarteto Contemporáneo de Guatemala, a string quartet specializing in a repertoire by Guatemalan composers, either written specifically for a string quartet or adapted for it. He has also been involved in the performance and production of Guatemalan music from the colonial period.[3]
Paulo Renato Alvarado | |
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| Background information | |
| Born | 1960 (age 63–64) Guatemala City |
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| Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter, producer. |
| Instrument(s) | Cello |
| Years active | 1969–present |
| Labels | DIDECA |
Alvarado is the son of Manuel Antonio Alvarado a Guatemalan educator, and brother of Manuel Alvarado, a British-Guatemalan academic in media studies. He writes a weekly column, Presto non troppo in Prensa Libre, a Guatemalan daily newspaper.[4][5][unreliable source?]
In 2016 he performed and produced El Chelo Guatemalteco, a collection of Guatemalan music rendered for the Cello, with Costa Rican pianist Gerardo Meza Sandoval.[6]
Discography
- La Cantoría de Tomás Pascual (1994). El repertorio de San Miguel Acatán, "Música Guatemalteca, Siglos XVI y XVII", CD, Pajarito Discos 50294-1. (Producer, cello)
- La Cantoría de Tomás Pascual (2000). El Repertorio de San Sebastián Lemoa, CD, Pajarito Discos. (Producer, cello)
- El Actor Etéreo. La música de la Nueva Escena Guatemalteca (2000). Guatemala. CD, Pajarito Discos. (Composer, producer, cello)
- Cuarteto Contemporáneo, "Música Guatemalteca, 1582 - 1990", 1998. CD, (Producer, cello)
References
Gandarias de, Igor:2008. La Música Electroacústica en Guatemala. Universidad De San Carlos De Guatemala, Dirección General De Investigación, Programa Universitario De Investigación En Cultura, Pensamiento E Identidad De La Sociedad Guatemalteca. Centro De Estudios Folklóricos.Gandarias de, Igor:2008. “Música guatemalteca para piano. Antología histórica, siglos XIX-XXI”. Universidad De San Carlos De Guatemala, Dirección General De Investigación. Centro De Estudios Folklóricos.Lehnhoff, Dieter: 2005. Creación musical en Guatemala. Universidad Landívar Fundación G&TContinental. Guatemala Centroamérica
External links
- ADESCA – Aporte para la Descentralización Cultural (1999). Informe 1999. Guatemala, p. 10.
- De Gandarias, Igor (2008). La Música Electroacústica en Guatemala. Dirección General de Investigación, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. Guatemala.
- Prensa Libre (2002). Diccionario de Artistas Guatemaltecos (A). Guatemala
- Hernandez, D., L'Hoeste, H., & Zolov, E. (Eds.). (2004). Rockin Las Americas: The Global Politics Of Rock In Latin/o America. Pittsburgh, Pa: University of Pittsburgh Press. Retrieved from https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qh62v.
- Hegarty, P., Halliwell, M. (2011). Beyond and Before: Progressive Rock since the 1960s. London: Bloomsbury.