Venezuelan voice on his way to the Royal Irish Academy
“I’ve gone from being in the middle of a
bad humanitarian crisis to being here, where I have a chance of a normal life
and wonderful artistic opportunities,” he says. “The change is enormous.” Magallanes’s
musical talent has caused him to be plucked from the obscurity of a rural
Venezuelan town and handed a place at Dublin’s Royal Irish Academy of Music
(RIAM), via his current stint in Barcelona. This remarkable journey was made
possible, in great part, by the Latin Grammy-winning Venezuelan pianist,
Gabriela Montero, and her Cork-born husband, the baritone singer Sam McElroy,
who have taken him under their wing. More…
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