Saúl Vera
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| Born | October 2, 1959 Caracas, Venezuela |
Saúl Vera (born October 2, 1959) is a Venezuelan musician, bandola player, composer and arreglist.
At the age of seven, he began to play the cuatro and the mandolin next to his older brother. Through him he knew diverse popular musicians who had influence in his musical formation.
At the age of 16, initiates his bandola studies, received particular classes with Eduardo Serrano and made formal studies in the music school Jose Lorenzo Llamoza, where he learned harmony of jazz and piano with Gerry Weil.
By his own initiative, he learned to execute all the stringed instruments used in Venezuelan music. In 1980, was invited by the government of Japan to a youthful interchange, since then he let the university to concentrate himself definitively in music.
In 1986, founded the group Saúl Vera y ensamble for the diffusion of the folk and popular Venezuelan music, integrated by: flute, French Oboe, clarinet, Bassoon, horn, bass, maracas, cuatro, among others.
In 1989, he made a national tour with the program Music and Traditions, from which the first recorded compact disc in the country was made.
Since 1991 one evolves like Coordinator of the factories of music of Fundarte, he worked with popular musicians of Venezuela like: Simón Díaz, Soledad Bravo, Cecilia Todd, Yordano, Franco de Vita and Serenata Guayanesa, among others. He has acted in important rooms of Venezuela, Cuba, Guatemala, Nicaragua, France, Finland, Barbados and Germany, among others. He has participated in The Nancy and Dijon Folk Music Festival, Festival of Dock, Caritesta Festival, Festival of Hamburg, Tours by the Canary Islands and others.
