Leo Rondón with the Duisburger Philharmoniker
Leo Rondón plays with the Duisburger Philharmoniker on 18 and 19 December at the Mercatorhalle in Duisburg as soloist with Pacho Flores and conducted by Alondra de la Parra. The works in which he will take part are Concerto Venezolano by Paquito D’Rivera and Cantos y Revueltas. Fantasía concertante for trumpet and Venezuelan cuatro by the trumpeter himself.
A ‘cuatrista’, guitarist, double bass player, composer-arranger and producer, he won third place in the Siembra del Cuatro 2007, second place in 2012 at the national level, as well as second place in 2011 as a cuatrista in the festivals of El Silbón (Venezuela) and San Martín (Colombia). He is currently a cuatrista, arranger and producer of the Ávila Quartet, a quartet of Venezuelan music, as well as cuatrista with the Ensemble L’Arpeggiata, directed by Christina Pluhar, Alexis Cárdenas and Recoveco, Venezuelan Roots and Joropo Jam, in addition to his solo project Leo Rondón Project.
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He has performed in different important concert halls and festivals in Venezuela, Colombia, Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Sweden, United Kingdom, Belgium, Holland, Kazakhstan and Morocco, with different ensembles and in collaboration with artists such as Rolando Villazón, Emiliano González Toro, Richard Galliano, Didier Lockwood, Cristóbal Soto, Ricardo Sandoval, Alexis Cárdenas, Simón Bolívar Big Band de Jazz, Omar Acosta and Roberto Koch, among others. As a soloist he has appeared with Alexis Cárdenas and Recoveco in the show El Fuego Latino organised by the Orchestre National d’Île-de-France and under the baton of the maestro Alondra de la Parra, presenting seven concerts in the Paris region, including the important concert hall Philharmonie de Paris. In June 2022 he made her debut at the Salzburg Pentecost Festival.
In Spain he has performed with the Real Filharmonía de Galicia, Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga, Sinfónica de Navarra, Sinfónica de la Región de Murcia, Orquesta de Extremadura, Orquesta de Valencia, Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León, Orquesta de Córdoba, Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, Sinfónica de Tenerife, as well as Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Arctic Philharmonic of Norway, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre National du Pays de la Loire, Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia, Filarmónica del Norte de Macedonia or Festival PAAX de México. Among his recent and future engagements are his returns to Extremadura, to the PAAX Festival in Mexico with Alondra de la Parra, the Sinfónica de Tenerife or the Arctic Philharmonic, and with the Duisburger Philharmoniker or the Baltic Philharmonic of Poland. He has participated in the album Cantos y Revueltas, by Pacho Flores, for Deutsche Grammophon. Leo Rondón uses a cuatro made by Mathias Caron.
