The Cuatro Project

Carlos David Capacho Hurtado
Cuatro Venezuelan- Multi-Instrumentalist – Composer- Arranger – Educator - Professional
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Waltham-MA
Artist Permanent Residency (work in the US for any employer
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Work Experience

• Teacher of Venezuelan Cuatro in the Conservatory Simon Bolivar (El SISTEMA) Caracas- Venezuela ( the most young teacher in the conservatory with the age of 18) Caracas- Venezuela 2008-2012 link ((link hidden))

• Teacher of Venezuelan Music in the Conservatory Simon Bolivar (El SISTEMA) Caracas- Venezuela 2010-2012

• Founder and Director of the Youth Orchestra of Venezuelan Music in the Conservatory Simon Bolivar ( EL SISTEMA) Caracas- Venezuela 2011-2012 (base reference to create the Venezuelan Music Orchestra)

• Leadership in the Project “Alma Llanera” (EL SISTEMA) Caracas-Venezuela
(During the government of Hugo Chavez President he approved a project to create 500 Venezuelan youth Orchestras, 40000 employments, using traditional folk instruments and preserve the folk music.
2011-2012
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Nationals Tour

• Boston (Flute Huascar Barradas Quartet (link hidden))
• Chicago, Atlanta, Washington DC, Boston (Piano Claudia Calderon Quartet (link hidden))
• Boston (Leo Blanco (link hidden) website)
• Chicago (Flute Marcos Granados (link hidden) website)
• Kansas (Marcos Granados Festival Flute in Kansas)
• New York (Nicolas Castaneda Trio Jazz Festival) (link hidden)
• Vermont (Nenin Chacin (link hidden) – Jazz Festival)
• Kansas City ( Alcides Rodriguez Tanglewood Festival ) (link hidden)
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International Tours

• Mexico (25 cities CIOFF tour in a month) (link hidden)
• Peru (Lima CIOFF tour 15 concerts)
• Cuba (over 25 concert 1 months and half )
• Trinidad and Tobago (Embassy of Venezuela Invitation
• Colombia (22 cities, invited by Alvaro Uribe Ex-president of Colombia)
• France, Netherlands, Brazil (3 months)
• China (Expo-Shanghai 3 months) (link hidden)
• Panama (Panama Jazz Festival with the Artist Danilo Perez ,John Patitucci and Global Jazz) (link hidden) (link hidden) (link hidden)
• Africa (Cameroon and Gabon with the Artist Danilo Perez invitation of US Deparment) (link hidden)
• Panama (Danilo Perez and Global Jazz Institute
• Canada ( with the jazz Artist Danilo Perez, John Patitucci, Brian Blade, Miguel Zenon Toronto Pan Am Games 2015) (link hidden)
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Recording

• Carlos Capacho y Cuatro album (*Awarded “Gold Record” sold 8000 number of copies in Venezuela.) 2007 (*Awarded Best Traditional Folk Album in Venezuela) (link hidden)

• Evolucion album (*Awarded “Platinum Records” sold 15000 number of copies in Venezuela.) 2009 (*Awarded Best Jazz Trio Album in Venezuela)

• Carlos Capacho -The Cuatro Project – “The Global” video “
(Original Composition by Carlos Capacho) with Berklee College of Music
(Youtube video http://youtu.be/jFsf1Iqwciw with just 2 weeks of launched 10000 views ) 2015

• Carlos Capacho -The Cuatro Project – “Korean Girl” video “
(Original Composition by Carlos Capacho) with Berklee College of Music
(Youtube video http://youtu.be/jXwPLbtvXtE with just 1 day of launched 2000 views) 2015

• The Korean Girl (Original Song by Carlos Capacho)
(*Song selected to performance and recorder in the prestigious Jazz Revelations Records Label (more the 250 submission)
03/2015
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Compositions

The Global (Original Song by Carlos Capacho)
(*Song selected from the event in Boston Berklee Performance Event LATIN AMERICA VIVE MUSIC FESTIVAL.) 03/2015 (More the 200 submission)

The Korean Girl (Original Song by Carlos Capacho)
(*Song selected to performance and recorder in the prestigious Jazz Revelations Records Label (more the 250 submission) 03/2015 (link hidden)

Er Merenblues (Original Song by Carlos Capacho)
(*Song selected from the event in Boston Berklee Performance Event INTERNATIONAL FOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL.) 04/2015 (150 submissions)
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Education

Schools

• UNEG (Universidad Experimental de Guayana ) VENEZUELA 2005-2006
(Computer Engineering 4 semesters) Awards: Cultural Scholarship

• Berklee College of Music: Boston, MA 2012-2016
Dual major Jazz Composition and Jazz Performance Bachelor’s Degrees
Awards: North-American Scholarship
Global Jazz Institute Performance
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Guitar Jazz Teachers

• Mick Goodrick ((link hidden))
• Tim Miller ((link hidden))
• Bruce Saunders ((link hidden))
• Ben Sher ((link hidden))
• David Gilmore ((link hidden))
• Garrison Fewell ((link hidden))
• Brett Willmott ((link hidden))

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Jazz Teacher Artist

• Danilo Perez (link hidden)
• John Paticucci (link hidden)
• Joe Lovano (link hidden)
• David Liebman (link hidden)
• Jerry Bergonzi (link hidden)
• George Garzone (link hidden)
• Adam Cruz (link hidden)
• Ben Street (link hidden)
• Terry Lyne Carrington (link hidden)
• Antonio Sanchez (link hidden)
• Terenche Blanchard (link hidden)

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Achievements

• First Place in the First International Cuatro Competition in Venezuela “La Siembra del Cuatro”
(*Awarded with only 15 years olds the most young player in Venezuela + 500 player competed)
2004

• Endorsement with Edgar Ramirez Roa Acoustic Cuatro Venezuelan Instrument
2005

• Endorsement with Sermeno Electric Cuatro Venezuelan Instrument
2005

• Selected in the group “Global Transformer” Young Leaders Global Shapers
(Created by the World Economic Forum in Switzerland) (link hidden)
2011
• World Premiere Composition to Cuatro and Orchestra recorder and Performance with the Symphony Orchestra Young “ Simon Bolivar” Gustavo Dudamel (El Sistema)
2012

• Selected to studied the Jazz Performance Major with the Global Jazz Institute Ambassadors
at Berklee College of Music (only 35 people)
2013

• Membership in the Grammy Awards (link hidden)
2015
• Selected to the prestigious IASJ 2016 jazz convention representing
Berklee College of Music (only one student of each university and country ) 2016

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Skills
• Instruments: Cuatro Venezuelan (Principal) (16 years), Guitar (basic) 8 years, Piano (Intermediate) 10 years

• Composition and arranger Trio, Quartet, Big band Jazz, Full Orchestra

• Software Finale, Sibelius, Logic Pro, Garage Band Pro Tools, Reason, IMovie, Final Cut Pro, OFFICE

• Languages Spanish (fluent) - English (Fluent) – Korean (Conversational)

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Links

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• Soundcloud (link hidden)
• Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVxx589FTWnC14bQJ5bz-WA
• Web: (link hidden)