Juan Carlos Bersague
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| Juan Carlos Bersague | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 10, 1963 |
| Origin |  Cuba |
| Genre(s) | Choral Music, Sacred music, Classical music. |
| Occupation(s) | Choral Conductor, Academy Professor in  Venezuela |
| Instrument(s) | Conductor |
| Years active | 1985 - present |
| Associated acts | Síntesis |
| Website | www.coralantiphona.com |
Juan Carlos Bersague Chacón is born at Havana, Cuba in 1963. In the present time he is the Titular Conductor of the Venezuelan vocal group Coral Antiphona.
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[edit] Biography
He took a degree in Choral Conducting at the renomed Escuela Nacional de Instructores de Arte (National Academy of Arts Intructors) and at the Centro Nacional de la Enseñanza Artística (National Center for Artistic Teaching), both in La Habana, with the musician teachers Mayda Martínez and María Felicia Pérez.
He has been one of the founder members of the famous Cuban choral group EXAUDI, conducted by the teacher María Felicia Pérez. With EXAUDI, he has performed in Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Hungary and Venezuela.
In Venezuela, he conducted the Children's Choir Niños Cantores del Zulia of Maracaibo, Venezuela, from 1994 to 2005. Nowadays he works as coordinator in the Vocal Area at the Arts and Music's Faculty of the Universidad Católica Cecilio Acosta, in Maracaibo. Moreover, he teaches Choral Conducting at the Arts's Experimental Faculty [FEDA] of the Universidad del Zulia, and he conducts the Academical Choir at the Conservatory of Music “José Luis Paz” in Maracaibo, where he also teaches Choral Practic since 1997.
Nowadays he is the Titular Conductor of Coral Antiphona
[edit] Exaudi Chamber Choir
Conducted by Maestra Maria Felicia Pérez, and as a founder member of Coro EXAUDI, he participated in the following Choral Competitions:
- XIV “Béla Bartók” International Choral Conpetion / Bartók Béla Nemzetkösi Kórusverseny / Debrecen, Hungary 1990. [First prize in the Category of Chamber Choirs and Prize in the Category of Folkloric Program]
- XXIV Certamen Internacional de Masas Corales / Tolosa, Euskadi-Spain 1992. [Third prize in Polyphony]
- XXV Certamen Internacional de Masas Corales / Tolosa, Euskadi-Spain 1993. [First prize in Folklore Category, access to the European Gran Prix 1993 and The Audience Prize]
- III Chamber Choir International Competition / Internationaler Kammerchor-Wettbewerb / Marktoberdorf, Germany 1993. [Third prize in the Internationally Excellent Category]
- Choral “Harmonie 93” / Lindenholzhausen, Germania 1993. [First prize]
- European Gran Prix of Choral Music 1993 / Varna, Bulgaria 1993.
[edit] Coral Antiphona
In the present time, since 1995, Juan Carlos Bersague works full time as the Titular Conductor of Coral Antiphona which, through its 10 years of musical history, has participated and won several prices in choral festivals and competitions in Venezuela and overseas.
Festivals as:
- V Festival Internacional de Coros de Santiago de Cuba / Santiago de Cuba, Cuba 1999.
- II Festival de Coros Maracaibo un canto a Vos / Maracaibo, Venezuela 2001.
- XX Aniversario del Festival de Coros de Álava / Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain 2001.
- I Festival Mundial de Coros de Puebla / Puebla, Mexico 2002.
- VII Festival Internacional D´Canto / Margarita Island, Venezuela 2004. [Prize of the audience].
- III Festival de Coros de Cámara Cantarte / Caracas, Venezuela 2004.
And competitions as:
- I Concurso de Coros “Luis Soto Villalobos” / Maracaibo, Venezuela 1999. [First Prize]
- III Competencia de Coros de Mérida / Mérida, Venezuela 2002. [First Prize in Polyphony & Second Prize in Folklore].
- XXXVII Certamen Internacional de Masas Corales / Tolosa, Spain 2005.
- XXIV Festival-Certamen Internacional de Música de Cantonigròs / Cantonigròs, Spain. 2006. [First Prize in the Mixed Choirs's category & First Prize in the Popular Music's category].
- LII Certamen Internacional de Habaneras y Polifonía / Torrevieja, Spain 2006. [Third Prize in Habaneras and "Francisco Vallejos" Prize, for the best interpretation of a popular habanera].
- LV Concorso Polifonico Internazionale Guido d'Arezzo / Arezzo, Italy 2007. [Third Prize in the Polyphony Category].
