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Place of Birth: Caracas, Capital District, Venezuela
About Rosa Briceño Ortiz
- Rosa Briceño Ortiz (26 April 1957 – 29 May 2018) was a Venezuelan conductor and educator. A native of Caracas, Briceño studied with Gonzalo Castellanos, becoming his first female pupil, and graduated from the Accademia de Musicale Chigiana in Italy.
- In 1994 she became the first woman to lead the Banda Marcial Caracas.
- At various points in her career she was offered the directorship of groups in Brazil, Colombia, and Argentina; she also served on the board of the World Band Association, and acted as regional coordinator for Latin America for the Latin American Music Center.
- A specialist in repertoire for wind band, at one time she served as director of the Escuela de Música José Ángel Lamas, where she taught for over 25 years.
- In 1983 she directed the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar for the first time, thus becoming the first Venezuelan woman to lead a symphony orchestra in Venezuela.
- In 2018 she suffered a cerebral edema and underwent emergency brain surgery.
- She died of leukemia.
- Briceño was awarded the Emma Soler Award for services to culture in 2017.
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