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Outreach Instructor
Antonio Rincón
Antonio Rincón, Violinist, born in the Dominican Republic, comes from several generations of classical musicians, all violinists.
He has appeared in recitals and concerts at the Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall in Baltimore, Brooklyn Conservatory of Music in New York, Campos do Jordão Winter Music Festival in Brazil, Vienna Music Festival in Austria, Festival Mayormente Mozart in Puerto Rico, Merkin Concert Hall in New York, The Tanglewood Music Festival, The Embassy of the Dominican Republic in Baltimore, The Inter-American Development Bank in Washington D.C. and with Chamber Orchestra of Santo Domingo, Chamber Orchestra of Puerto Rico, among others. |
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Antonio Rincón has performed chamber music throughout the United States and Europe as principal and second violinist of the Heréncia String Quartet and the Panamerican String Quartet.
In 1992 singer Julio Iglesias, after watching a broadcast recital, awarded Antonio Rincón with a French Violin, Francois Barzoni.
Antonio Rincón made his solo television debut at age 15 and he has been heard in numerous radio broadcast throughout Latin America and the United States and the national television in both countries. He was also a faculty member of the Wilmington Music School and the Bryn Mawr Conservatory of Music for several years. He has been member of numerous Symphony Orchestras such as Concerto Soloist Chamber Orchestra, Bach Ensemble of Baltimore were he served as Assistant Concertmaster, Concertmaster of the Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra in 2001 South America concert tour, Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, Delaware Symphony Orchestra and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Santo Domingo among others.
He began his formal training at Santo Domingo's National Conservatory of Music with his father Augusto Rincón and in 1988 he immigrated to the USA after been chosen to receive a full scholarship to study at the New World School of the Arts with former Concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic Rafael Druian, legendary violinist Ida Haendel and Cathy Meng Robinson Violinist of The Miami String Quartet. In 2003 he became citizen of the United State of America.
Antonio Rincón holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Peabody Conservatory of Music where he studied with renowned Violinist Victor Danchenko, pupil of the virtuoso David Oistrakh. He has worked both Chamber Music and Orchestral Repertoire with distinguished musicians such as Earl Carlyss, conductor Seiji Ozawa, the Julliard String Quartet, Jaime Laredo, Oscar Shumsky, André Previn among others.
Presently he is a member of the Palm Beach Opera Orchestra where he plays in the first violins section, substitutes with the Naples Philharmonic, the Atlantic Classical Orchestra and the Palm Beach Pops in Florida where he resides and teaches violin at Palm Beach Atlantic University Prep. and from his private studio in Boynton Beach, FL.
Founder and Artistic Director of the Panamerican Chamber Music Society, Antonio Rincón has a strong interest to collaborate in the development of Chamber Music Tradition, and music education for our communities.
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