Pacho Flores
The music of trumpeter Pacho Flores encompasses classical, jazz, and popular influences. He has recorded several albums for the Deutsche Grammophon label.
Flores was born in San Cristóbal, Venezuela, in 1981. His father, Francisco Flores Díaz, was a trumpeter and band director who observed that his son had "good lips" and correctly forecasted that he, too, would become a trumpeter. After lessons from his father, Flores entered Venzuela's famed El Sistema music education system. He studied at the Escuela de Música Miguel Ángel Espinel in San Cristóbal with Orlando Paredes and at the Instituto Universitario de Estudios Musicales in Caracas. Flores then traveled to Paris, where he studied with Eric Aubier and won several major trumpet competitions, including the prestigious Maurice André Competition in 2006. Signed to Deutsche Grammophon, he released his debut album, Cantar, in 2012. Like most of his albums to come, the album mixed established classical trumpet works with pieces of Latin American origin.
Flores has appeared internationally with such orchestras as the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Japan, the Düsseldorf Symphony in Germany, and the Arctic Philharmonic in Norway. He has performed at such top venues as Carnegie Hall in New York, the Salle Pleyel in Paris, and Opera City in Tokyo. Flores is also a chamber player, having founded the Simón Bolívar Brass Quintet and leading it on tour in Europe, Japan, and the U.S., as well as in South America. He is an experienced orchestral trumpeter, having held principal trumpet positions with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, the Saito Kinen Orchestra from Japan, and the Miami Symphony Orchestra. Flores has recorded several more albums for Deutsche Grammophon, including Estirpe (2022), containing the Concerto Venezolano of jazz trumpeter Paquito D'Rivera; that work won the Latin Grammy Award for Best Classical Composition in 2023. He has premiered works by various contemporary composers, including Roger Boutry, Efraín Oscher, Sergio Bernal, Giancarlo Castro, and Santiago Báez. Flores is the founding director of Venezuela's Latin-American Trumpet Academy.
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Estirpe
Pacho Flores, Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería, Carlos Miguel Prieto
Classical - Released by Universal Music Spain S.L. on 28 Jul 2022
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Cantar
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 6 Aug 2013
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Fractales
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Entropía
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Classical - Released by Universal Music Spain S.L. on 12 May 2017
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Cantos Y Revueltas (En Directo En El Palacio De La Ópera De A Coruña / 2018)
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Classical - Released by Universal Music Spain S.L. on 15 Nov 2019
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Egregore+
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Classical - Released by Naxos on 10 Jul 2020
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Best in Brass
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Classical - Released by EUROPEAN GRAMOPHONE on 5 Dec 2023
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BACH for Brass and Organ
Christian Lindberg, Pacho Flores, Carlos Paterson, Johann Sebastian Bach
Classical - Released by EUROPEAN GRAMOPHONE on 7 Mar 2023
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Bach: Inventions
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Classical - Released by EUROPEAN GRAMOPHONE on 21 Oct 2020
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The Essential Mozart
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Fractales
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Mozart: Duos for Horn, K. 487
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Classical - Released by EUROPEAN GRAMOPHONE on 18 Nov 2020
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Trumpet Extravaganza
Pacho Flores, Sergei Nakariakov
Classical - Released by EUROPEAN GRAMOPHONE on 26 Sep 2023
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Cantar
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Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 6 Aug 2013
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The Essential Paterson
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The Essential Pacho Flores
Pacho Flores, Christian Lindberg, Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Classical - Released by EUROPEAN GRAMOPHONE on 3 Oct 2023
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Swedish Chamber Orchestra: In Focus
Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Christian Lindberg, Franz Schubert, Pacho Flores
Classical - Released by EUROPEAN GRAMOPHONE on 12 Mar 2024
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Trumpet Players: In Focus
Pacho Flores, Sergei Nakariakov, Jonas Lindeborg, Joakim Agnas
Classical - Released by EUROPEAN GRAMOPHONE on 2 Apr 2024
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Brass Concertos
Christian Lindberg, Pacho Flores, Swedish Chamber Orchestra
Classical - Released by EUROPEAN GRAMOPHONE on 20 Sep 2022
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