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Emilio Sole - Sempere is a successful Voice, Piano educator and Choral Director with strong background and more than 30 years of experience.  He is widely recognized as an accomplished and energetic Choral Director of international prestige, with outstanding communication skills and a vast and successful experience conducting traditional, classical, contemporary, Latin-American and world music, with adult and children choirs as well as vocal groups in classic and popular repertoire.

Awarded composer and arranger, his compositions are performed internationally by choirs and vocal groups.

 Emilio Sole - Sempere


Professional Life

Emilio Solé - Sempere gave his first musical steps in Barcelona, Spain under the guidance of the eminent professor Elda Sainz De La Maza. Later, in Venezuela besides of his studies of Psycology in the Caracas' Universidad Andres Bello he studied piano, music theory, history of music, music reading, harmony, counterpoint, singing, Gregorian Chant, composition and Choir Conduction in the Fundacion Schola Cantorum de Caracas with the most illustrious Venezuelan teachers like Alberto GrauMaria GuinandIsabel PalaciosModesta Bor and others. Afterward he was accepted as a student of orchestral conduction with Adrian Thorne in the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London, England. He was assistant director of Felipe Izcaray in the Caracas Chamber Choir where he became subsequently his principal director. He also attended several specialized courses in conduction, composition with international teachers like Luigi Agustoni, Johannes Berchman Göhl, Hellmuth Rilling, Robert Sund, Vic Nees, Wili Göhl and famous musical groups like Chanticleer, the King Singers and the Real Group and others. He has been member and Assitent Conductor at worldwide known top Venezuelan Choir Schola Cantorum de Venezuela as well as professor of musical appreciation, music reading, and choir direction in the Caracas’ Music Conservatory in which he created the Caracas’ Children Choir and the Academic Choir. Afterward, he founded and conducted the project Let’s Sing! and the School of Choral Singing of the Venezuelan State Petroleum Company, Lagoven and Petroleum of Venezuela, PDVSA.

Well known internationally as a several times awarded composer and arranger, he embraces several styles especially in coral music, with original compositions and arrangements of all kind of music. Some of his works have been published in Earthsongs and Gentry Publications and Esyel Music. His compositions and arrangements are assiduously performed by Choirs and Vocal Groups all over the world.

In 2009 was appointed Coordinator of the Department of Production of the National Center for Social Action Thorough Music, the top Institution of the world renamed Venezuela's El Sistema, the world famous National System of Children and Youth Orchestras and Choirs of Venezuela, Institution in which later, in 2011, he became Assistant to the Executive Direction of the after mentioned Venezuela's National Center. He was conductor of the Choir of Camera and stable prompter of the Caracas’ Teresa Carreño Opera.

His compositions and arrangements are performed by many proffesional an amateur choirs. (See Emilio Sole YouTube channel).

Nowadays Emilio keeps conducting, arranging, composing and been a successful teacher of singing and piano and a member of the prestigious Music School "Lessons in Your Home"

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