Jorge Humberto Pinzón

Jorge Humberto Pinzón Malagón ( 10 January 1968 – Moniquirá, Boyacá ) is a Colombian composer of contemporary classical music, oboist, pianist, and teacher.

Biography

Pinzón began his studies at 1981 in the "Escuela Superior de Música de Tunja (ESM)" He studied piano and music theory with Jorge Zorro and oboe with Rizshard Jarosik. In 1984 he participated in the First National Piano Competition "Jóvenes Talentos", and two years later he won the honorific mention Summa cum laude de la ESM.

At 1987 he was pianist of classic ballet Incolballet, and harmony and voice leading teacher in the conservatory Antonio María Valencia de Cali. Later he obtained a scholarship to study in Russia, and when he was in Moscú, he competed to enter to Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, the most important of the soviet union and one of the most prestigious around the world. He studied oboe with Mamed Mamedovich Orudzhev, piano with Boris Georgievich Smolyakov, and composition with Vladislav Germanovich Agafonnikov from 1988 until 1994.

He was in the national festival of young soloists "Salud América" in 1992, in Samara, Russia, and he was graduated of the conservatory as Master of Fine Arts. Later he participated at III Ancient music festival in Moscú. In 1994 he moved to Perú, when he was first oboe of the Lima's Philharmonic. On his return to Colombia in 1995, he participated in the XXIII Festival Internacional de la Cultura in Tunja, Boyacá. During five years he was in Symphonic National Wind Orchestra, under the Ministry of Culture of Colombia.

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