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Carlos Breña is currently studying a Doctoral of Musical Arts degree in Violin Performance while working as a Graduate Assistant at University of Georgia and as a teacher at the Community Music School at the University of Georgia. He holds a Master of Music degree from the University of North Dakota, US; and a Bachelor of Music degree from the National Conservatory of Music of Peru (now National University of Music). He became a member of the National Symphony Orchestra of Peru from November 2021 until July 2022. He also worked with the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra in 2016-2017 and the Meridian Symphony Orchestra in 2017. He had the opportunity to lead the Greater Grand Forks Symphony Orchestra as concertmaster during 2015-2016, as well as with the Peruvian Youth Symphony Orchestra (2007 and 2011), and with the National Conservatory Symphony Orchestra (2011-2012).
His major teaching experience developed at the National University of Music from August 2017 until July 2022, teaching undergraduate music majors. Some of his former students at the University pursued their careers outside Peru obtaining scholarships in the US and in Germany, and one former student kept the position of concertmaster in the “Sinfonia por El Peru Youth Orchestra”, which toured in Europe and is part of the project “Sinfonia por el Peru” led by Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez.
His teaching experience also includes: instructor at the National Network of Children’s and Youth Orchestras and Choirs of Peru, now Orquestando Program from 2008 to 2014; Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of North Dakota from 2014 to 2016; Professor in the strings program of the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra at Jackson Public Schools, US, from 2016 to 2017, Professor at the Premier Orchestral Institute, US, in 2017; violin teacher at the Chancay Municipal Symphony Orchestra, from 2017 to 2018, string teacher at the Santa María Marianistas school, in 2018, and music teacher at Newton College, from 2019 to 2020. He also worked as a violin teacher in online classes at the National University of San Agustín de Arequipa since April 2021 up to December 2021.
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He has participated in different music festivals including Prague Summer Academy (Czech Republic, 2015), Fontainebleau Schools of Music and Fine Arts (France, 2011), Ghent Festival of Flanders, with the Traveling Notes Orchestra (Belgium, 2010), and Les Chemins du Baroque (France, 2009). He has been part of the Ibero-American Youth Orchestra, on a tour between Spain and Portugal during the XIX Summit of Heads of State and Government under the baton of maestro Gustavo Dudamel in 2009.
His soloist experience includes performing the Violin Concerto by L.V. Beethoven and the Spanish Symphony by E. Laló with the MINEDU Youth Symphony Orchestra (Peru) in 2016, and 2010 respectively and Vivaldi’s Summer and Bach’s Concerto in A minor with the National Symphony Orchestra in 2007 and 2005 respectively. Carlos has taken piano and conducting lessons leading to important achievements such as first place in the National Concert Competition in honor to W.A. Mozart, in the category up to 17 years old, performing the concerto No. 12 KV 414 for piano. As a conductor he led the Chamber Orchestra of the University of North Dakota in 2015 and the Peruvian Youth Symphony Orchestra in 2010.
