Carlos Serrano
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Carlos Serrano is a recorder and early woodwinds player born in Bogotá
, Colombia
, in 1963. After recorder studies at Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio and Mannes College of Music
in New York with Philip Levin, and with Pedro Memelsdorff in Italy, he graduated from the Early Music Institute at Indiana University
as pupil of Eva Legene and Michael McCraw. In 1988 he founded the early music ensemble Musica Ficta (Colombia)
, with which he has specialized in the performance of Latin-American and Spanish renaissance and baroque music. With this ensemble he has performed in over 20 countries in Europe, the USA, Latin America, the Far and Middle East. He has recorded for the labels Jade (France), Arion (France), Centaur (USA) and Arts Music (Germany). He taught music at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, and his biography is published in volume 19 of the latest edition (2002) of the Diccionario de la Música Española e Hispanoamericana.
Bogotá
Bogotá, Distrito Capital , from 1991 to 2000 called Santa Fé de Bogotá, is the capital, and largest city, of Colombia. It is also designated by the national constitution as the capital of the department of Cundinamarca, even though the city of Bogotá now comprises an independent Capital district...
, Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
, in 1963. After recorder studies at Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio and Mannes College of Music
Mannes College of Music
Mannes College The New School for Music is The New School university's music conservatory. While the university's main campus is located in Greenwich Village, New York City, Mannes maintains its main academic building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan....
in New York with Philip Levin, and with Pedro Memelsdorff in Italy, he graduated from the Early Music Institute at Indiana University
Indiana University
Indiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000...
as pupil of Eva Legene and Michael McCraw. In 1988 he founded the early music ensemble Musica Ficta (Colombia)
Música Ficta (Colombia)
* See musica ficta for the Latin musical term, feigned music.* Musica Ficta founded 1975 by Rubén Soifer.* Musica Ficta founded in 1988 - the subject of this article.* Musica Ficta founded 1992 by Raúl Mallavibarrena....
, with which he has specialized in the performance of Latin-American and Spanish renaissance and baroque music. With this ensemble he has performed in over 20 countries in Europe, the USA, Latin America, the Far and Middle East. He has recorded for the labels Jade (France), Arion (France), Centaur (USA) and Arts Music (Germany). He taught music at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, and his biography is published in volume 19 of the latest edition (2002) of the Diccionario de la Música Española e Hispanoamericana.