Ángel Reyes (February 14, 1919 – November 17, 1988),
(archive from 1 October 2017, accessed 22 July 2018). originally from

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, was an American

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ist. A son of , Ángel Reyes was a Premier Prix graduate from the

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at the age of sixteen, and a prize-winner of the Ysaye International Violin Competition in Brussels. He was conductor of the Thirteenth Sound Group of Havana, music director of the Cuban Military Police Band and a composer of Cuban traditional instrumental and vocal works. Camejo recorded

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Preludio a Colón ''Preludio a Colón'' ( Prelude to Christopher Columbus), for soprano in fifths of a tone, flute, guitar, and violin in quarter tones, octavina in eighth-tones, and harp in sixteenth-tones, is a musical composition by the Mexican composer Juliá ...

'' (Prelude to Christopher Columbus) on the Columbia Records label. As a concert soloist, he appeared with the

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and

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throughout the United States, Europe, Canada and Latin America. A Professor of Music at the

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and

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, he performed with the Northwestern Piano Trio (formed in 1959) with pianist Gui Mombaerts and cellist Dudley Powers. He was married to Jill Bailiff, former harpist with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Professor of harp at Northwestern University and Eastern Michigan University. At one time he owned the famous Lipinski Stradivarius violin, on which he played

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in November 1942 with the Havana Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by

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, as well as with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy. He also owned a violin by Carlo Bergonzi, known as the "

Kreisler Bergonzi The ''Kreisler Bergonzi'' is an antique violin made by the Italian luthier Carlo Bergonzi (1683–1747) from Cremona in 1740. The violin is named after violinist Fritz Kreisler. After being forced to donate his Guarnerius to the Library of Congr ...

", previously owned by Fritz Kreisler and later by Itzhak Perlman. Ángel Reyes presented many master classes and adjudicated string and chamber music competitions in the U.S., Canada and France. From 1968-1983 he spent summers on the faculty of the University Division of the National Music Camp at Interlochen. Retiring as Professor Emeritus from the University of Michigan School of Music in June 1985, Reyes then established residency in

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, Florida. Ángel Reyes was survived by his wife Jill Bailiff, his son David, his daughter Lisa, and three grandsons Braiden, Ángelo, and Ivan.

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