Multi-award-winning Venezuelan trumpeter Pacho Flores is a First Prize Winner at the Maurice André International Trumpet Competition, Philip Jones International Competition and the Cittá di Porcia International contest in addition to being awarded a Gold Medal by the Global Music Awards for his album ENTROPÍA. His most recent recording for Deutsche Grammophon, ESTIRPE (2022), was nominated in three categories at the Latin Grammy Awards 2023 and Paquito D’Rivera’s “Concerto Venezolano” which was awarded Best Classical Composition.
Pacho Flores made his Hollywood Bowl in 2023 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel performing Arturo Márquez’s Concierto de Otoño following his season-long residency with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic where he and Chief Conductor Domingo Hindoyan were branded ‘The Dream Team.’ Further recent highlights include performances as soloist with the San Francisco Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, New World Symphony, Tampere Philharmonic, San Diego Symphony, NHK Symphony, Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, Arctic Philharmonic, Turku Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Lille and Frankfurt Radio Symphony.
In the 2024/25 season, Pacho is artist-in-residence with the Duisburger Philharmoniker in Germany, where he will perform in mutiple concerts including concerti, chamber music collaborations and in recital as soloist with organ. Further highlights include a his debut with the Houston Symphony (Hindoyan) and returns to the San Francisco Symphony (Carlos Miguel Prieto) and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic (Hindoyan).
Trained in ground-breaking El Sistema music-education programme in Venezuela, Pacho is equally at home across many musical genres and is an advocate for new commissions. Recent premieres include of works by composers Efraín Oscher, Giancarlo Castro, Santiago Báez, Hilda Paredes, Christian Lindberg, Paquito D’Rivera, Arturo Márquez, Roberto Sierra, Gabriela Ortiz or Daniel Freiberg. Pacho is also a founding member of the Simón Bolívar Brass Quintet and former Principal Trumpet of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. He is dedicated to fostering the next generation of trumpet players and is Founding Director of the Latin-American Trumpet Academy in Venezuela.
Pacho Flores is a Stomvi artist, performing exclusively on instruments that have been developed and built for his performances. Pacho records exclusively for Deutsche Grammophon and his discography includes Cantar with Konzerthaus Orchester Berlin and Christian Vásquez; Entropía, Gold Medal of the Global Music Awards; Fractales with Arctic Philharmonic and Christian Lindberg; and the double CD-DVD Cantos y Revueltas with Real Filharmonía de Galicia and Manuel Hernández-Silva. Pacho’s latest album, Estirpe with Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería and Carlos Miguel Prieto was nominated in three categories at the Latin Grammy Awards 2023.
September 2024
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