Antoni Albuquerque
Born in Sant Carles de la Rapita in 1969. At the age of thirteen he began his musical studies at the music school of the Rapitenca Musical Association Band, specializing in musical language and horn, studies that he later extended in the conservatories of Tortosa, Valencia and Barcelona, where he studied horn, harmony, counterpoint, fugue, composition-instrumentation and orchestra conducting, obtaining different awards and honorable mentions in the respective specialties. He also studied specialized band conducting with professors Joaquim Amela, José Rafael Pascual Vilaplana, Luís Sanjaime, Enrique García Asensio, Ferrer Ferran and Johan de Meij among others.
As a trumpet player he has collaborated with the most important Catalan orchestras such as the OCB, the orchestra of the Gran Teatro del Liceo, the Orquestra Sinfónica del Valles, the Orquestra de Cámara del Empordá, as well as the Orquestra de Cámara de Elberg (Switzerland) and the Orquestra de Cámara de Moscú, with which he has performed as soloist, being also a founding member of several chamber music ensembles.
Since 1997, he has been the director of the music band of the Agrupació Musical Rapitenca, a position he combines with teaching at the secondary school of the Xaloc School of Barcelona, as well as collaborating as a teacher in the specialty of horn at the Conservatory of the Municipal Schools of Barcelona, horn teacher at the Conservatory of Vila-seca, professor of brass and instrumental ensemble at the Aula de música 7 of Barcelona.
As a band conductor he has been invited to conduct various ensembles in Spain, as well as in France, Germany and Portugal. He is the founding conductor of the Symphonic Band of the Catalan Federation of Musical Societies, a position he still holds today, with which he prepared, together with maestro Ferrer Ferran, the world premiere of Ferrer Ferran's Symphony No. 3 "El Gaudir del Geni".
His interest in music and its applications in education has led him to pursue a master's degree in music therapy. He has composed chamber music, cobla and orchestra, but it is in the band music where he performs best, composing overtures, sardanas, pasodobles and an infinite number of arrangements of compositions inspired by Sant Carles de la Ràpita. Since 2004, his compositions and arrangements of music for band are published by the Valencian publishing house Omnes Band. At present he also collaborates with the Catalan publishing house Periferia, where he publishes his pedagogical works aimed at music students who study in the various centers where he carries out his pedagogical work.
