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RODRIGO APABLAZA

Rodrigo Apablaza was born in Viña del Mar, Chile. He studied at the music Conservatory of the University of Chile (1970 to 1977), in later at the Berklee School of Music in Boston (1978-1981). Rodrigo is one of the most talented and sought-after guitarist/arrangers in Chile. For the past 20 years he has worked on a wide variety of projects and settings. These include recordings of Raúl de Blasio, Jorge Caraccioli and Cecilia Echeñique. He has been the director, guitarist and arranger for the Viña del Mar Orchestra, and founded the Big Band for the University of Valparaiso. He has been Musical Director in TV productions and composed numerous things for Television. In 1990 he won the prize for "Best Orchestral Arrangements" at the Interamericana Television Organization Festival (OTI). During 1995 Rodrigo acompanied Isabel Parra in the Brunswick Music Festival in Melbourne, Australia. Rodrigo was the person Paula contacted when she needed someone to take on the monumental task of composing and writing the Orchestral arrangements for her first Richmond Shymphony Orchestra Concert in 1996. He then helped give life to these arrangements by working with the conductors and playing the guitar in both RSO concerts. Most recently from his home in Chile, Rodrigo has directed the recording of Paula's "Concierto" Album.