Paulo Alvarado

Paulo Renato Alvarado
Background information
Born1960 (age 63–64)
Guatemala City
Genres
Occupation(s)Musician, songwriter, producer.
InstrumentCello
Years active1969–present
LabelsDIDECA

Paulo Alvarado (born 1960) is a Guatemalan cellist, composer and producer born in Guatemala. He studied architecture at Universidad Rafael Landívar but dropped out in 1983 to become a full-time member of the groundbreaking Guatemalan rock band Alux Nahual.[1] Besides his role in that band, continuing to date, he is notable for exploring the use of the cello in a variety of contexts[2] and is active in classical music. In 1992 he founded Cuarteto Contemporáneo de Guatemala, a string quartet specializing in a repertoire by Guatemalan composers, either written specifically for a string quartet or adapted for it. He has also been involved in the performance and production of Guatemalan music from the colonial period.[3]

Alvarado is the son of Manuel Antonio Alvarado a Guatemalan educator, and brother of Manuel Alvarado, a British-Guatemalan academic in media studies. He writes a weekly column, Presto non troppo in Prensa Libre, a Guatemalan daily newspaper.[4][5][unreliable source?]

In 2016 he performed and produced El Chelo Guatemalteco, a collection of Guatemalan music rendered for the Cello, with Costa Rican pianist Gerardo Meza Sandoval.[6]

  1. ^ "Paulo Alvarado Discography". Discogs. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
  2. ^ Hernández, Oswaldo (15 May 2011). "Paulo Alvarado: Más allá del instrumento". Siglo 21. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
  3. ^ Duarte, Arturo; Alvarado, Paulo (1998), "Música de Guatemala en el siglo XVIII: los villancicos de Tomás Calvo", Mesoamérica, 19 (36): 441–498
  4. ^ "Paulo Alvarado – Prensa Libre" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-04-28.
  5. ^ "Paulo Alvarado", Wikiguate, April 1, 2015, retrieved June 16, 2018
  6. ^ Villalobos Viato, Roberto (27 November 2016). "Lanzamiento de novedoso disco de violonchelo y piano con música guatemalteca". Prensa Libre. Retrieved 17 June 2018.