Peña Oscar Eduardo (1983 - ) Venezuela, San Antonio de los altos
About the artist
Contemporary, Neoclassical-Ecleptic Musician.
Venezuelan composer born on March 25, 1983 in Caracas. In the Edo. Vargas received his first guitar lessons and four with professor Jesús Antonio Manzanilla (1990). He saw Armonía de Jazz) with Blaider Castillo (tutor) for piano in 1998.
He began his musical studies at the University Institute of Musical Studies (IUDEM) in 2000, under the direction of renowned teachers such as Inés Feo, Purple Lares, Parmana Armoogan, Belen Ojeda, Juan Andrés Sanz, Juan de Dios López among others.
In 2003, he joined the Latin American Chair of Composition under the tutelage of the internationally renowned teacher and composer Atehortúa Blas Emilio (who was a disciple of composers such as Alberto Ginastera, Ianni Xenaquis, Aaron Copland, Dallapicolla, Oliver Messiaen Bruno Maderna, among others). , until 2007.
Following in the footsteps of its teacher Atehortúa is an ecleptic school of thought, seeking the combination of contemporary elements, Latin American rhythms, while maintaining the presence of melody, contrapuntal textures and above all, the use of classical forms, and trying to maintain a link with history.
Since 2003 to date he has composed 12 works for symphonic choirs, 7 concertos with symphony orchestra, two symphonies, 2 symphonic movements, 3 openings, 2 fantasies for orchestra, 15 works for string orchestra, and a variety of works for string quartets. brass quintets, woodwind quintets, and percussion ensembles, including various Venezuelan musical arrangements
Since 2015, when digitizing his works, there was an accident due to which he lost half of his works, saving only those that he had registered on Free-scores.com
Under new determinations, concerns and processes in his spiritual life, as of July 2015 he is beginning a new stage in his career, with works inclined in favor of Jewish culture, from the messianic-Sephardi point of view.