| Carlos Serrano | |
|---|---|
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Carlos Serrano |
| Born | 1963 Bogotá, D.C., Colombia |
| Genres | Baroque music, Renaissance music |
| Instruments | Recorder |
| Labels | Jade, Centaur, Arts Music, Arion |
| Website | http://www.musicafictaweb.com/ |
Carlos Serrano is a recorder and early woodwinds player born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1963. After recorder studies at Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio and Mannes College of Music in New York with Philip Levin, and with Pedro Memelsdorff in Italy, he graduated from the Early Music Institute at Indiana University as pupil of Eva Legene and Michael McCraw. In 1988 he founded the early music ensemble Musica Ficta (Colombia), with which he has specialized in the performance of Latin-American and Spanish renaissance and baroque music. With this ensemble he has performed in over 20 countries in Europe, the USA, Latin America, the Far and Middle East. He has recorded for the labels Jade (France), Arion (France), Centaur (USA) and Arts Music (Germany). He taught music at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, and his biography is published in volume 19 of the latest edition (2002) of the Diccionario de la Música Española e Hispanoamericana.[1]