Rodolfo Saglimbeni
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 Rodolfo Saglimbeni with Oscar D'León
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| Born | December 8, 1962 Barquisimeto,Venezuela |
Rodolfo Saglimbeni is a Venezuelan conductor. He was born in 1962, he studied music both in Venezuela and in the Royal Academy of Music of London with Colin Metters, John Carewe and George Hurst, obtaining his degree with Honors.
He studied under the tutelage of Professor Franco Ferrara in the St. Cecilia Academy of Rome in 1981. He has labored as Associated Director of the Caracas Sinfonietta and Venezuela Symphonica, as well as in the role of founder and Artistic Director of the Great Marshal of Ayacucho Symphony orchestra, and Musical Director of the Teresa Carreño Cultural Complex.
He was first finalist in the Aid the International of Conductors of Besancon, France; where he was also the youngest director of the 1985 competition. He returned to Venezuela in 1987 and has been invited to conduct symphony orchestras in France, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina and El Salvador.
In 1990, he was contracted as tutor and later as Co-director of the Course of Summer, of the Canford Summer School of music, in England. He has been awarded with the prize of Best Director of the Year and National Prize of the Artist and decorated with the Order “Jose Felix Ribas” in its First Class. In March of 1999, he was winner of the Director Prize of the America, in Santiago de Chile. In 2003 he was appointed artistic director of the Municipal Symphony Orchestra of Caracas.
