Edward Pulgar
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Edward Pulgar is a Venezuelan violinist and conductor.
[edit] Early life and education
Born in Caracas, Pulgar was trained through the National Youth Orchestra system in Venezuela. He began musical studies at age eight in solfege, percussion and violin; his teachers included Giusseppe Maiolino, Miroslaw Kulikowsky, and Józef Szatanek. At thirteen years old, he won the special prize in the Juan Bautista Plaza V National Violin Competition and several other competitions in Venezuela. He continued his studies in violin and orchestral conducting at the Conservatorio José Luis Paz of Maracaibo, the Conservatorio Simón Bolívar, and the Academia Latinoamericana de Violín under José Francisco del Castillo in Caracas. Pulgar earned an artist diploma from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh and recently a masters in music performance from Michigan State University.
[edit] Career
Pulgar has played as a soloist with several symphonic orchestras in Venezuela, and at concert halls throughout South America, the United States and Europe, including Complejo Cultural Teresa Carreño of Caracas, Centro de Arte Lía Bermúdez of Maracaibo, Panama's National Theatre, Beethovensaal of Stuttgart and Bonn, Teatro Colón of Bogotá, and the PNC Recital Hall and Carnegie Music Hall in Pittsburgh. At twenty years old, Pulgar made his debut as a conductor with the Fifth Symphony by Tchaikovsky and the Zulia Symphony Orchestra. The same year he became concertmaster of the Zulia Symphony, and three years later he became a member of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela. He has also been a member of the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra in Michigan and associate principal violin of the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra in West Virginia. Currently he is a member of the Knoxville Symphony Orchetra. He plays a violin made by Giovanni Rossadoni in 1930.
Pulgar has played master classes and participated in summer festivals with Yossi Zivoni, Maurice Hasson, Yuval Yaron, Habib Kayaleh and Aaron Rosand in violin; and Helmuth Rilling, Sung Kwag, Wolfgang Trommer and Colin Matters in conducting, and with the Emerson String Quartet and Tokyo String Quartet in chamber music.
