Enrique Espín Yépez (November 19, 1926 – May 21, 1997) was an

Ecuador Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contain ...

ean composer and violinist. Born in

Quito Quito (; ), officially San Francisco de Quito, is the capital city, capital and second-largest city of Ecuador, with an estimated population of 2.8 million in its metropolitan area. It is also the capital of the province of Pichincha Province, P ...

, he moved to Mexico in 1969, where he established himself as a professor of Violin at the National Conservatory of Mexico. He was a student of Maestro

Henryk Szeryng Henryk Bolesław Szeryng (usually pronounced ''HEN-r-ik SHEH-r-in-g'') (22 September 19183 March 1988) was a Polish- Mexican violinist. Early years He was born in Warsaw, Poland on 22 September 1918 into a wealthy Jewish family. The surname ...

, who declared him heir of his technique. In December 1975 Szeryng bestowed Espín with a Ceruti violin, made in 1801. Espín created the Henryk Szeryng International Violin Competition in Mexico in 1992.Biography of Pablo Diemecke
/ref> He died in Mexico City in 1997.

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Homenaje a Espín YépezInstituto Ecuatoriano de Cultura Hispánica
Ecuadorian composers Ecuadorian violinists 1926 births 1997 deaths 20th-century violinists 20th-century composers {{Ecuador-composer-stub