BIOGRAPHY
Valentín is a Conductor, Composer and Violinist born in Medellín, Colombia.
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He was recently appointed as the Artistic and Music Director of the "Redondo Beach Music Box Youth Orchestras Program" in Los Angeles.
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He is currently the Musical Director of the "Music House Singers", an adult choir based in Rancho Palos Verdes and holding activities principally in Los Angeles.
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He also serves as the Artistic director and coordinator of the "Music House Conservatory Orchestra" in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.
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In October 2024 he was invited as guest faculty to lead conducting masterclasses in Universidad del Cauca, Popayán, Colombia, as part of the activities of the "Popayan International Chamber Music Festival". In May 2024 he was guest conductor in the concert "Tchaikovsky for La Casita de Nicolás" leading Camerata Jaibaná and Universidad de Antioquia Symphony Orchestras, in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto featuring soloist Mimi Jung, in Medellín, Colombia. During February of the same year he served as assistant to the conductor José Escandell in Giuseppe Verdi's Otello in Valencia, Spain, produced by "LGAM artist management".
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He was one of the winning conductors of the “Young Talents Competition” of the Eafit Symphony Orchestra in November 2022, conducting in the orchestra's 20th Season concert. He conducted Copland's Appalachian Spring with musicians from the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela and Iberacademy Orchestra in November 2022 in the performance closing a conducting workshop led by Maestro Alejandro Posada. Additionally, he conducted parts of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro in an Iberacademy orchestra production with stage director Marco Gandini in November 2021. With Iberacademy, he has received constant guidance from his conducting mentor and program founder Alejandro Posada, and received advice from Roberto Gonzalez-Monjas. He has conducted Lars Erik Larsson's Concerto for Saxophone, as well as a wide variety of repertoire workshops including music by Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Medelssohn, Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn. In November 2022, he traveled to Cochabamba, Bolivia, to assist conductor Leonard Elschenbroich alongside the Bravura Musical Foundation sponsored by the Iberacademy Foundation.
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Valentin took conducting courses at Eafit University with Professor Alejandro Posada between 2020 and 2024.
He has also received private lessons with Lina González-Granados (Colombia), José Escandell (Spain) and Orhan Saliell (Turkey).
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In October 2024, violinist Mimi Jung and Pianist Juan Coronado performed his "Danzas y Cantares" in a recital as part of Popayán Chamber Music Festival.
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In February 2023, he received second prize in the musical composition category of the Caneres Music Competition Vienna for his "Fugue for String Quartet." His composition catalog includes works for orchestra such as his overture “Buen Viento y Buena Mar”, the miniature “Fernanda Played with Goldfish” or “Francesco e Povertà” for orchestra and baritone; his work for string orchestra "The Princess and the Henchman" based on his own story published by Autor (Spain in 2019), the work for choir and ensemble “La gran Aldea”, “Elektro-Variations” for String Quartet, Nocturne for Ensemble, and "Rhapsody for Solo Violin" which will be recorded in 2025 by Mimi Jung (violin).
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Born in Medellín, Colombia, Valentín has pursued different artistic facets over time. He holds undergraduate and master's degrees in violin from Eafit University. In 2015, during his violin degree recital, he premiered his Sonata for Violin and Piano "In Memory of My Grandfather Jorge". As part of his master's studies, he conducted research and editing with interpretative annotations of the “Two Sonatas for Solo Violin” by Colombian composer Roberto Pineda Duque, whose article can be found in the institutional repository of Eafit University. In December 2020, he premiered his "Christmas Fantasy" for solo violin in El Retiro, Colombia.
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Additionally, he received lessons from Orhan Saliell (Turkey) and José Escandell (Spain). He is currently continuing his studies with Maestra Lina González-Granados (Los Angeles Opera).
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Valentín completed undergraduate and graduate studies in violin at Eafit University with Professor Williams Naranjo. Between 2014 and 2022 he was violinist in the Eafit Symphony Orchestra, where he also served as assistant second violins principal. Between 2015 and 2018, he was a violinist in the Camerata Jaibaná, where he also performed concerts as a soloist and was second violins principal.
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Valentín is currently the second violinist of the Music House String Quartet. The Quartet is based in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, and offers performances in the Los Angeles area upon request.