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Miguel Astor (1958) Venezuelan composer, pianist, musicologist and choral conductor. Lives and works in Venezuela.

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Venezuelan pianist, singer and composer. She began his musical studies formally in Caracas at age 5 with María Luisa Stopello, at the Dalcroze Rhythmic School. At age 8 they published a poetry book entitled "Prisca" and was registered in the Society of Authors and Composers of Venezuela (SACVEN), an association to which he belongs to the board of directors as a member since 2014 and is currently vice president.


She obtained the title of "Performing Piano Teacher" (2001) with María Auxiliadora Díaz at the Prudencio Esaá Music School. She studied contemporary harmony, improvisation and jazz with maestro Gerry Weil, a living leyend.  She graduated as "Lyric singing performer" (2004) tutored by Flor García and Rubén Malnéz at the José Reyna School. She has  degree in History graduated from the Central University of Venezuela (2004) and an announcer (2012) 

Her work has earned her several awards and recognitions, such as: "Best Venezuelan Popular Composition" and "Best Latin American and Venezuelan Performance" at the I National Piano Competition "Rosario Marciano" (2008), "Best Merengue Performance" at the I Contest "The Venezuelan Piano" (2002) and the prize "Luis Alfonso Larrain" (2009) for his contribution to national music awarded by SACVEN and the Luis Alfonso Larrain Foundation. She has been nominated 6 times for the Pepsi Music Awards, dedicated to Venezuelan talent, was nominated as "Best female artist of the year" in 2016.

The musical language of Prisca is based on the fusion of Venezuelan music with elements of academic music and jazz. Her 7 albums: Prisca and Marieva Dávila "Travesía-Canciones de Latinoamerica" (2017), "Un piano, dos hermanas" (2014), "Venezuelan Piano Jazz II" (2011), Piano En Canto Venezolano II "(2009), Piano In Venezuelan Canto "(2007), Estoy Aquí" (2005) and "Piano jazz Venezolano" (2003) have been praised in Venezuela and abroad.

Prisca, has performed numerous concerts in prestigious venues and festivals in Venezuela and in countries such as: Korea, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Holland, Spain, United States, Czech Republic, France, Great Britain, Mexico, Trinidad, Puerto Rico, Canada, Italy and Puerto Rico.

In July of 2013 and to celebrate her 10-year record career, Prisca presented her concert "Venezuelan Symphonic Jazz Piano" at the Teatro de Chacao in Caracas with the Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, taking his compositions and arrangements to large format .

Her most recent album is with her sister, the pianist, composer and flamenco dancer Marieva Dávila, entitled "Travesía-Canciones de Latinoamérica" (2017) in which they interpret her compositions, arrangements with 4 hands and classics of Latin American music.

In July of 2013 and to celebrate her 10-year record career, Prisca presented her concert "Venezuelan Symphonic Jazz Piano" at the Teatro de Chacao in Caracas with the Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, taking his compositions and arrangements to large format .This project hopes to take it to different cities in Venezuela and abroad

Her most recent album is with her sister, the pianist, composer and flamenco dancer Marieva Dávila, entitled "Travesía-Canciones de Latinoamérica" (2017) in which they interpret her compositions, arrangements with 4 hands and classics of Latin American music.



COMMENTS ON THE WORK OF PRISCA DÁVILA

  «"Prisca can get the most beautiful notes of their entrails, feel them before touching them. The piano sings together with it and the magic is born by instinct, from the first bars. Tonalities as bright as the stars of the sky ... It is tender and poetic, with beautiful harmonic, subtle and attractive progressions. The notes fall from your fingers like flower petals, an authentic piano revelation! The tremendous instrumental and vocal interest of a diva. Congratulations, Miss!
Alain-Pierre Pereira, La Semaine du pays Basque, Bayonne, (France) March 25, 2010, XVIII CulturAmerica Festival.

Pianist and composer. He began his musical studies in Mérida (Venezuela) with piano lessons. His teachers were Amílcar Rivas and Olga Lòpez (piano), Abraham Abreu (harpsichord), Alejandro Pulido, Arcángel Castillo, Luis Laya and Claudio Tripputi (Composition). He has won some national and international awards as a pianist and composer like: National Competition ¨El piano venezolano¨ 2012, Four hands piano competition ¨Gerty Haas-Olga Mondolfi¨ 2013, Latin American announcement for piano Works to the XII Ecuador 2016 Contemporany Music Festival, Eighth National composition contest El piano venezolano 2016, Municipal Award 2016, vocal work mention ¨Augusto Brandt¨ and the International Composition Contest for Choral works ¨Alberto Grau¨ 2017.

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