Angel Reyes

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Ángel Reyes is a Cuban violinist.

In New York City during 1933, Reyes was the principal violinist of the Thirteenth Sound Group of Havana, with which he recorded Julian Carrillo’s Preludio a Colón (Prelude to Christopher Columbus) on the Columbia record label.

Reyes taught at the University of Michigan and Northwestern University. He performed with the Northwestern Piano Trio (formed in 1959) with pianist Gui Mombaerts and cellist Dudley Powers. He has also performed with la Orquesta Filarmónica de la Habana.

At one time he owned the famous Lipinski Stradivarius violin, on which he played the Glazounow Violin Concerto in November 1942 with the Havana Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Massimo Freccia. He also owned a violin by Carlo Bergonzi, known as the "Kreisler Bergonzi”.