Jorge Isaac (born 1974 in

Caracas, Venezuela Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the ...

) completed his professional training under with

Walter van Hauwe Walter van Hauwe (born 16 November 1948) is a Dutch recorder player. Biography and career After lessons at the music school of Delft, where his father was director Pierre van Hauwe, Hauwe studied recorder with Frans Brüggen at the Royal Conser ...

at the

Conservatorium van Amsterdam The Conservatorium van Amsterdam (CvA) is a Dutch conservatoire of music located in Amsterdam. This school is the music division of the Amsterdam University of the Arts, the city's vocational university of arts. The Conservatorium van Amsterdam ...

in 2000. In 2002, Isaac received his

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in contemporary performance and live electronics at the same institution. In 2006 he was appointed as Professor of

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at the

, carrying on the famous Amsterdam Recorder School. Jorge Isaac has been awarded several international prizes, such as the International Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition 2001 (including the special prize "best use of electronics") in The Netherlands and the Krzysztof Penderecki International Competition of Contemporary Music in Poland (2001). In 2004 he was awarded the first prize at the Jur Naessens Music Award in Amsterdam with his multimedia production "Mensa Secunda". In 2007 he received an Award of Distinction at the

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in Austria for his work "Marionette". As a soloist, Isaac has given a large number of performances and masterclasses over the globe. He has participated in varied recording productions, such as radio broadcasts for the Hessen’s radio (HR4) in Germany, Teldec (Germany), Concertzender (NL), blockflute samplers in the USA, and his own music together with the film composer Elik Alvarez (Los Angeles). Over 150 new compositions have been specially written for him. Jorge Isaac has collaborated with the ensembles

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, the Dutch Chamber Orchestra, The

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, The Dutch Opera, stage director

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, and the conductor

Reinbert de Leeuw Reinbert de Leeuw (8 September 1938 – 14 February 2020) was a Dutch conductor, pianist and composer. Life Lambertus Reinier de Leeuw's mother and father were both psychiatrists: Cornelis Homme 'Kees' de Leeuw (1905-1953) and Adriana Judina ...

, among many other artists. He is at the moment involved with a great variety of concerts and recitals, early and new music projects, multimedia performances, his teaching activities at the

, and in the production of large interdisciplinary works together with the Visisonor Foundation.

References

External links

Visisonor Media Productions: Recorders (Blockflutes), Electronics, New MediaRecorder Department Amsterdam ConservatoryCatalogue of Recorder RepertoryVisisonor RecordsMusic Theater and Stage Performance course, Amsterdam ConservatoryBlockflute Masters (Frans Brüggen, Walter van Hauwe, Kees Boeke, Jorge Isaac)
*http://www.visisonor.org/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Isaac, Jorge 1974 births Living people Musicians from Caracas Venezuelan musicians Recorder players