| Huáscar Barradas | |
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| Born | 1964 Maracaibo, Venezuela |
Huáscar Barradas (born Maracaibo, 1964) is a Venezuelan flutist and Professor of flute at the "Instituto Universitario de de Estudios Musicales" in Caracas. As a flutist he has represented Venezuela at a range of international festivals and as both soloist and symphonic musician plays a wide range of music types. As a professor, he has previously worked at the National Youth Orchestra of Venezuela and taught his course “The art of performing the flute” at different Conservatories in and out of Venezuela.
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Huáscar is the product of an academic education which includes studies at the "Conservatorio de Música José Luis Paz" of Maracaibo in Venezuela, the Brooklyn Conservatory of New York (graduated Cum Laude), the Juilliard School of Music, the Superior School of Music of Frankfurt (Sehr gut). He has studied under the supervision of Maestros such as Eulogio Gómez, Bernard Golberg, Nirijam Nastasy, Robert Aitken, Aurele Nicolet, Peter Lukas Graf, Michael Scheneider, among others. He studied orchestral conducting with Vincent La Selva and Karoly Kope, and Jazz with Shelton Berg and Ron Carter. He is a founder member of the Estudiantina Juvenil and the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Zulia State. He won the Texas Junior College Competition in 1983. He was sponsored by the Society for the Professional Development of Young Artists of Hannover, Germany.
He has been granted important scholarships such as the German Academic Exchange Service and the Fundación Beracasa. In addition to it, he has also been granted the Order of Merit “Relámpago del Catatumbo" given by the Government of Zulia State, and the Order of Merit “Ciudad de Barquisimeto”.
He has been principal assistant flutist of the Maracaibo Symphony Orchestra and the National Philharmonic Orchestra, and now occupies this same position at the Municipal Symphony Orchestra of Caracas. He has produced six CDs with his Venezuelan music band “Huáscar Barradas y Maracaibo”. In addition to it, he has recorded as soloist with the National Phylharmonic Orchestra the piece specially written for him by the Venezuelan composer Domingo Sánchez Bor, “Viaje de la Jirafa” (Journey of the Giraffe).
He has represented Venezuela at important festivals such as Radio France et Montpellier Festival, European Flute Festival of Frankfurt, Expo-Hannover 2000, National Flute Association Convention 2000, the International Contemporary Music Festival of Bogotá, International Festival of Folklore in Turkey, 1st Latin American Flute Convention in Caracas, XII International Musica Convention of Medellin, among others.
He has performed with important artists who at the same time have been special guest performers to his concerts, like Maestro Simón Díaz, María Teresa Chacín, Cecilia Todd , Ilan Chester, Guaco, Pedro Castillo, Aldemaro Romero, “El Pavo” Frank Hernández, Martirio, and Chavela Vargas.
He was married to Kharla Aranguren an architect. They got married in 2001 but divorced one year later. A song was dedicated to her in his CD WORLD.