Carmen Moral is an orchestra conductor and also teaches conducting at Berklee College of Music

Berklee College of Music

Berklee College of Music, located in Boston, Massachusetts, is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known primarily as a school for jazz, rock and popular music, it also offers college-level courses in a wide range of contemporary and historic styles, including hip...

 in Boston

Boston

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, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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She holds master's degrees from the Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan School of Music

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 and Columbia University

Columbia University

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 (New York) and a master's degree and a DEA in Musicology

Musicology

Musicology is the scholarly study of music. The word is used in narrow, broad and intermediate senses. In the narrow sense, musicology is confined to the music history of Western culture...

 from the Sorbonne

Sorbonne

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 (Paris). She studied conducting

Conducting

Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...

 with Ionel Perlea of New York

New York

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's Metropolitan and with Laszlo Halasz, one of the founders of the City Center Opera of New York.

She was the first woman to become a Music Director and Conductor of a major Latin American orchestra : the National Symphony Orchestra of Peru, her native country. She was selected for this position by a competition in which she was the only woman participant. Since then, several orchestras have entrusted her with the post of Music Director, such as the Bogotá

Bogotá

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 Philharmonic Orchestra (Colombia), I. Frauen-Kammerorchester von Osterreich (Vienna

Vienna

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), the Symphony Orchestra of Mimar Sinan University (Istanbul

Istanbul

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), and, for a second time, the National Symphony orchestra of Peru

Peru

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. She served for six years as First Conductor of the Istanbul State Opera. She became Conductor Emeritus of the National Symphony Orchestra of Peru, "Gran Official" of the Merit Order-City of Bogotá and Medal of Honor of the Peruvian Culture.

Her repertoire encompasses a wide range of musical styles and genres-symphony, opera and chamber music- represented in more than 700 works. She has conducted numerous world premieres. The George Enescu Philharmonic (Bucharest

Bucharest

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), the Symphony Orchestra of Russia (Moscow

Moscow

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), the Tonkunstlerorchester (Vienna), the Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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 Philharmonic, the Pasdeloup Orchestra (Paris), the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico

Mexico

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, and the Chamber Orchestras of Lausanne

Lausanne

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 and Vienna are among the 80 orchestras that have invited her to serve as a guest conductor. Her concerts in 26 countries of Europe, Asia and the Americas have taken her to such theaters as the Grosser Musikvereinsaal of Vienna, the Kennedy Center of Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

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, the Bolshoi Hall of Moscow Conservatory, the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires, the Teatro Bellas Artes of Mexico, D.F., the Theater of the Nationalities of Beijing

Beijing

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, and the Salle Pleyel of Paris.

External links

• Carmen Moral's page on kapralova.org Maintained by the Kapralova Society, Toronto, Canada.