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Adriana Figueroa Mañas

Adriana Figueroa Mañas

This week we present the composer and flautist Adriana Figueroa Mañas. Listen to her romantic piece Aires de Tango http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmJ4jkWJqbg
Adriana Figueroa Mañas graduated in 1997 from the school of music of the National University of Cuyo, where she earned the title “Licenciada in Music and Flute”. Adriana frequently takes part in a variety of musical groups, playing various styles including chamber music and popular music such as fusion and jazz. She plays the saxophone (alto and soprano), flute, piccolo, and contralto flute. Adriana was also the first flautist in the Vanguard Symphonic Orchestra, in Mendoza and she has also played solos in the professional symphonic orchestras of Mendoza.
She was the flautist in a wood ensemble (“Enssamble Universidad”), which played her works and arrangements as part of their music repertoire and won the first prize in the Antorchas chamber competition in 1998. Adriana currently teaches music, composition, sax and flute.

Some of Adriana’s works can be obtained on the Internet at http://www.sheetmusicnow.com, some of her other works are available for free to people in the USA from the Fleisher Collection of Philadelphia.

Recently, she received a Homage for her contribution to the academic music in Mendoza, by professors of the National University of Cuyo.(may 2009)

Find out more on http://ciweb.com.ar/figueroa/index2.php