Marcelo Araúz Lavadenz (born October 29, 1934, in
Santa Cruz de la Sierra), is a
Bolivia
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n festival director, culture promoter, choir leader and music educator.
He spent his youth on the
lowlands of
Palmar de las Islas. He studied
sociology at the
Katholic University of Leuven in
Belgium.
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biography
Araúz worked initially for the
French
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Alliance française and the Casa de la Cultura Raúl Otero Reiche in
Santa Cruz. Then he became secretary-general for the Asociación Pro Arte y Cultura (Apac), a Bolivian organization for the promotion of art and culture. Furthermore, he is the founder of Urubichá Choir that is dedicated to
baroque music
Baroque music ( or ) refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750. The Baroque style followed the Renaissance period, and was followed in turn by the Classical period after a short transiti ...
. The baroque in the region of Santa Cruz developed under the influence of old culture exchanges with the local
Indigenous people.
[Viceministerio de Desarrollo de las Culturas de Bolivia (2003]
''Gestion con la entrega de premios''
He is director of two biannual international festivals in Bolivia in the field of
music and
theater: the ''Festival Internacional de Música Barroca y Renacentista "Misiones de Chiquitos"'' and the ''Festival Internacional de Santa Cruz de la Sierra''.
Araúz was rewarded with prizes several times. One of them was the
Prince Claus Award
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The Fund has presented the international Prince Claus Awards annually si ...
from the
Netherlands in 2002. Furthermore he received the highest award of Bolivia in 2003, in the
Order of the Condor of the Andes.
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21st-century Bolivian musicians
Music educators
Living people
1934 births
People from Santa Cruz de la Sierra
Bolivian expatriates in Belgium