Rafael Scarfullery, DMA (Classical Guitarist)

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Rafael Scarfullery is an internationally recognized classical guitarist, composer, and conductor. He has won several awards for his cultural projects, compositions, and performances. His compositions are performed by internationally acclaimed artists and ensembles.

Rafael teaches at Sweet Briar College and is music director at the Aldersgate United Methodist Church in Virginia, USA. He has also taught at Shenandoah University, the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, and the Conservatorio Nacional de Música of Santo Domingo. He has organized six guitar festivals in the Dominican Republic, where he has invited renowned guitarists. He is also an organist, and has taught harmony, music appreciation, music analysis, and counterpoint. Being one of the most outstanding guitarists of the Dominican Republic, he has performed throughout his country, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Turkey, the U.S.A, Venezuela, and Canada. He has also been judge in guitar competitions. He has the honor of being the first Dominican guitarist who performed Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez. Rafael also plays recitals with period instruments from the renaissance and romantic eras.
Rafael is a member of several professional music organizations and foundations, such as: ASCAP, GFA (Guitar Foundation of America), and AGO (American Guild of Organists).

To share his Christian faith, he constantly performs sacred music guitar recitals in churches. Moreover, his church music compositions cover all the church year. As a conductor he has led the Filarmónica del Cibao, the Shenandoah University Symphony Orchestra, and the Sinfónica Juvenil "Juan Pablo Duarte".

Rafael began his musical studies at the Music Academy "Patria" in San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic and later attended the Conservatorio Nacional de Música of Santo Domingo where he studied with Rafael Lagares and Luis Francisco Simó.

University Degrees and Certifications:
Guitar performance:
Bachelor of Music: Brooklyn College of the CUNY
Master of Music: Shenandoah University
Doctorate of Musical Arts: Shenandoah University
Orchestral Conducting
Master of Music: Shenandoah University
Church Music:
Doctorate of Sacred Music: Graduate Theological Seminary
Choirmaster Certificate: American Guild of Organists (AGO)
Colleague Certificate: American Guild of Organists (AGO)
Service Playing Certificate: American Guild of Organists (AGO)
Church Music Certificate: Shenandoah University

Rafael also studied for a year with Adam Holzman at the University of Texas at Austin, and has taken masterclasses with Alírio Díaz, Leo Brouwer, Nicholas Goluses, Aldo Rodríguez, Ricardo Cobo, and Benjamin Verdery, among other famous artists. Rafael has also studied composition with Tania León, Alice Parker, and William Averitt, and orchestral and choral conducting with Jan Wagner, Robert Shafer, Jan Wnek, and Fernando Geraldes.

His awards (mostly from the Dominican Republic) include:
Winner of the hymn competition at the First Parish Church of Arlington in Massachusetts (2007)
Jaycee's 72: "Outstanding Youth of the Year" (2005)
The president's National Youth's Award in the area of Cultural Development (2002)
Ateneo de San Pedro de Macorís (2002): For the organization of cultural projects in San Pedro de Macorís
Winner of the Supreme Court Hymn competition of the Dominican Republic (Listen to hymn here) (2001)
Top winner in the Bach-Handel Competition in Virginia (2001)
San Pedro de Macorís City council: Outstanding Citizen of San Pedro de Macorís (2000)
Nominations to El Casandra (2000, 1997)
Casa de la Cultura Petromacorisana (2000, 1997, 1996)
El Casandra: Best classical instrumental player of the year of the Dominican Republic, and first guitarist to ever win it (1998)
El Guloya (1997)

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