Eduardo Manzanilla

Composer · Trumpet

Venezuelan Composer born in 1962.

Venezuelan musician, trumpet player, professor, arranger, and composer. He has an extensive career in symphonic orchestras, recital stages, and solo performances. At a very early age received the First Prize at the National Conservatory in Nice, France. From there, he continued his education with the renowned soloist Stephen Burns at the famed Manhattan School of Music in New York, United States.

His trajectory as an orchestra musician is backed by being the first trumpet at the Maracaibo Symphonic Orchestra, the Caracas Sinfonietta, and the Caracas Municipal Symphonic Orchestra, in Venezuela, as well as the Capitol Orchestra of Toulouse, France.

He has been invited to perform both as a soloist and as a recitalist by the vast majority of orchestras in his native country, Venezuela.

His discography includes three solo records: "Cromos" (1998), "Ecos y Recuerdos" (2005), and "Verdeamarelo" (2010).

His works, as arranger or composer, have been played and recorded by ensembles and solo artists from Venezuela, Mexico, Portugal, France, and the United States. Nowadays, he is a Professor at the Universidad de las Artes (UARTES) in Guayaquil, Ecuador, as well as an Assistant to the First Trumpet at the Guayaquil Symphonic Orchestra.

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