Rafael Cameras Myers
Guitarrist and Composer
PROFILE
Rafael is a versatile Mexican composer and guitarist, as well as a musical arranger, sound designer, teacher of music and performing artist. He has studied Music and Composition in the Veracruzana University (UV) in Mexico. He earned a national award in Mexico for the composition of the piece "Trashumante", composed for classical guitar, within the context of musical composition contest "Poetry in six strings", organized by the Russian guitarist and composer Nadia Boríslova (who recorded an album in which the piece composted by Rafael was included). Currently he holds an artistic grant from the Mexican government to present his concerts abroad, and will perform in Sweden and Spain during the spring of 2014. Rafael has performed in many important national art forums in Mexico, like “La Casa del Lago”, of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), presenting the guitar recital “Trashumante" – a recital focusing on traditional Latin American rhythms by compositors from Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico and France. He has also had pieces recorded, as "A la Tierra (To the Earth)", composed by Rafael, and recorded by the Children Coral Group “Camino de Sueños” from a comunity of Veracruz, México in 2013.
In 2012 he was furthermore hired to do the sound design for the play "Impossible” by the Production Centre of Contemporary Dance (Ceprodac), promoted by the National Coordination of Dance National Institute of Fine Arts (Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes-INBA). Also, he was the sound designer of the choreographic installation in the play "HAIKU 8 decomposition in red" -of director Shanti Vera- presented at the 39th International Cervantes Festival in Guanajuato. In October 2010 he presented the “Suite Silvio Rodríguez”, consisting of three songs from the Cuban singer, in which Rafael included his own musical arrangements. The suite was performed by the Guitar Orchestra and Chamber Choir of the Music Faculty of the Veracruzana University. In 2006 he was part of the group the Guitar Orchestra of the same University, directed by the guitarist Orvil Paz. Rafael has taken master classes with renowned teachers, as Alex Dunn (Canada), Carlos Bonell (England) Roberto Aguirre G. (Mexico), Ivan Risquez (Mexico), Sebastian Guigui (Guatemala), Ernesto Luna Gómez (Mexico), Consuelo Bolio (Mexico), among others. He has also received lessons in composition and musical analysis with Emil Awad, Arturo Cuevas, Eugenius Sleziak, José Saldaña, Johanes Shmmit, Richard Siwi, among others. Currently he continues his job as a composer and sound designer, as well as performing in multiple scenarios and working as a teacher of music at the Gulf University in Veracruz, Mexico.