Fernando de La Rua

Layout by:Born in Itapeva- SP - Brazil and brought up in a multi-cultural environment, Fernando began his music studies simultaneously at Escola Municipal de Música and the House of Spain in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Musicians such as Lorenzo Virseda, Paco Cruz and Manolo San Lucar deeply influenced his initial training as a Flamenco musician. His interactions with Spanish guitar maestros and Flamenco dance companies touring Brazil, lead to collaborations with Spanish artists who had immigrated to Brazil. He subsequently worked closely with the Flamenco guitarist legend, Gerardo Nunez. Fernando is the winner of the prestigious award, “Certámen de Coreografía, Danza Española y Flamenco”, for best original music composition for dance, in June 2004 at the Teatro Albéniz, Madrid.Some of his worldwide performances between 1999 and 2007 include,in Brazil: Teatro Municipal (Sao Paulo), Sala Sao Paulo (Sao Paulo), Teatros do Sesc Pompéia and Sesc Vila Mariana (Sao Paulo), Centro Cultural Vergueiro(Sao Paulo), Palácio das Artes (Belo Horizonte), Teatro do Sesi(Belo Horizonte), Teatro Carlos Gomes -Sala Guarany(Rio de Janeiro); in the United States: United Nations (U.N) - New York City, NY, The Joyce Theatre – New York City, NY, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts– Washington, D.C., The Majestic Theatre – Boston, MA; in Europe & Asia: Theatre Bobino, Café de la Dance - Paris, France, The Concertgebouw Theatre – Amsterdam, Holland, Clinkers Festival – Brugge, Bélgium, The Geneva Flamenco Festival – Geneva, Switzerland, Teatro Franco Parenti – Milan, Italy, Teatro Quirino – Rome, Italy, The Turín Flamenco Festival – Turin, Italy, Teatro Albeniz, Teatro de Madrid, Teatro da Real Escuela Superior de Artes Dramáticas de Madrid (RESAD) – Madrid, Spain, Teatro de La Fortuna – Madrid, Spain, Teatro de La Maestranza – Seville, Spain, Teatro Isabel La Católica – Granada, Spain, Tour around theatres in Ukraine (Odessa, Lvov) and Russia (St. Petersburg, Kirov, Moscow), Kameido Theatre, Shinjuku Bunka Center – Tokyo, Japan, The Singapore Art Festival – Singapore. Courses & Workshops Taught Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1995) – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Universidade de Música de Salvador (1996) – Salvador, Brazil, Universidade Livre de Música Tom Jobim (1998) – Brazil, Sanlúcar de Barrameda (1998, 1999) – Cádiz, Spain. Fernando currently lives in Madrid, Spain. He performs worldwide and is actively involved in diverse musical projects, both as a solo artist and in collaboration with other musicians with his own composed material. His repertoire reflects the strong musical and multicultural influences from Flamenco, Bossa nova, Samba and Chorinho.