Alfredo Rolando Ortiz – Latin American Harp November 11, 2006

Alfredo Rolando Ortiz is an internationally acclaimed harpist and composer who has performed in Europe, Japan, Australia and North, Central and South America and has recorded more than forty albums.

With a multicultural repertoire that covers folk, classical and popular music of many countries, Dr. Ortiz has performed for audiences of all ages and backgrounds. He has lectured on a variety of subjects at universities, colleges and schools, is the author of several books and articles and his compositions have been performed and recorded by classical and folk harpists in many countries.

Alfredo was born in Cuba. When he was eleven years old, he immigrated with his family to Venezuela where he began studying the Venezuelan folk harp with a friend from school. A year later he became a pupil of Alberto Romero on the Paraguayan harp. Just two years after his first harp lesson he began medical studies in Medellín, Colombia, began performing professionally and recorded his first album. Music supported his medical studies until graduation. For eight years he worked as a medical doctor as well as a harpist and recording artist until his wife, Luz Marina, became pregnant. In order to have time for his growing family, he then decided to dedicate his life only to them and to his first love: the harp.

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