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Maestro
Rodolfo Fernandez In 1999, Rodolfo received the Millennium Governor’s
Arts Award Recipient for Service to the Arts in Nevada. His additional professional activities include: • Guest Conductor, Topanga Symphony at Los Angeles • Founding Conductor Lompoc Pops Orchestra • Guest Conductor/Coach San Diego
Chamber Music Workshop, Scripps College • Music collaborator and Association publisher with Dr. Paul Alvarez, University of Barcelona, Spain advanced
training manual and repertoire for string musicians. Projected publication date: Fall 2003. Sr. Fernandez was also featured in the promotional video “Only
in Las Vegas” which was aired worldwide through the Discovery Channel. He recently completed a musical collaboration
and commissioned orchestrations for Taretsky Productions entitled “In Concert,” which has won national and international
awards, and is currently in distribution throughout the United States, Europe and South America as a motivation resource for
Rhone-Poulenc, a worldwide corporation. Rodolfo
Fernandez is currently preparing a comprehensive catalog of orchestrations and arrangements for publication and distribution
in the United States and Latin America for Mercado Productions, Ltd.
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native of Chile, South America, Rodolfo Fernandez graduated from the University of Santiago with a Masters in Music Performance.
He was the winner of the National Student Competition in music performance and was awarded a position with Orquesta Filarmonica
de Chile. In 1961 he was the recipient of an international grant for Young Performing Artists from the Rockefeller Foundation,
and was subsequently appointed assistant principal cellist with the Atlanta Symphony, principal cellist Ft. Lauderdale Symphony,
Miami Opera Company, Louisiana Symphony, and the Tampa Philharmonic. While teaching
in the music department of Tampa, South Florida, Sr. Fernandez twice received a Ford Foundation Grant to participate in the
American Orchestra National Competition, and was selected as principal cellist of the Daytona Beach Music Festival.
Rodolfo was also sponsored
by the London Symphonic Orchestra. At which time he attended master classes and performed with Sir Nelson Cooke, Andre Previn,
Richard Burdin and, Simon Goldberg. Rodolfo’s professional career as a concert cellist and guest artist include national and international
tours with the North Carolina Symphony, Louisiana Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia, Bógota, and the
Swiss Chamber Orchestra. His national debut as a concert cellist was held in Carnegie Recital Hall, New York, June 1972. Sr. Fernandez is the founding member and leader of the Nevada String Quartet which presented a full
season of classical music annually from 1975-1982. He later formed the Serenata Violancello Trio which toured statewide under
the sponsorship of the Nevada Humanties Committee in 1983 and 1984. He was appointed
Ambassador of Culture of Las Vegas by Mayor Bill Briar and in 1989, the Nevada String Quartet expanded and changed their name
to the Nevada Chamber Symphony. Rodolfo currently maintains the position of Conductor and Music Director. Sr. Fernandez additionally designed and developed the NCS educational Outreach Programs “Ear-Openers,”
and “Night at the Symphony,” interactive multi-discipline music education programs for elementary and high school
students. He also designed and developed “Invitation to Play” a youth development program in cooperation with
the Southern Nevada Music Teachers Association. In 1985, as conductor and music director, he founded the Serenata
Chamber Orchestra. Rodolfo’s national debut as a conductor was at Moscone Center, San Francisco, June 1986.
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