Javier Vinasco / clarinetist
Javier Vinasco has recorded 15 solo albums with more than 100 works by Latin American composers. He has performed multiple premieres including dedicated concertos written by Andrés Posada, Diego Vega, Marco Alunno, Sergio Delgado, and Miguel Del Águila, and has performed as a soloist on more than 50 occasions with different Latin American orchestras. One of his recordings, Piazzolla and Villa-Lobos: Music for Clarinet and Piano, was nominated to a Latin Grammy in 2008. He is the International Clarinet Association's Colombian chairperson as well as a Yamaha, D’Addario and Cero Records artist. In 2020, he founded Clarinete Mestizo, an educational digital platform that promotes the music for clarinet from Latin America.
Javier is available for recitals, concerts with orchestra, work premieres, recordings, master classes & workshops.
Music & videos
Con nostalgia and Recitando (from Pacific Serenade)
By Miguel del Águila (Uruguay)
Performed with Carlos Betancur (piano)
Clarinet Concerto
Andrés Posada (b. 1954)
Francisco de Miranda Youth Symphony Orchestra (Venezuela)
Conducted by Felipe Izcaray
95th Street Bay Ridge
Gerardo Giraldo (b. 1977)
Sortilegios (2020)
Works by Felipe Tovar-Henao, Gerardo Giraldo,
Jorge Hoyos, and Tomás Díaz Villegas
Figuraciones y opuestos (2020)
Works by Andrés Posada
Featuring Cuarteto Q-Arte, Pedro Salcedo (bassoon),
Andrés Gómez (piano) and Williams Naranjo (violin)
Silence (2020)
Work by Miguel del Águila (Uruguay)
Featuring Miguel del Águila (piano)
4+1 (2016)
Works for clarinet and string quartet by Miguel del Águila (Uruguay), Blas Emilio Atehortúa (Colombia), Andrés Posada (Colombia), Celso Garrido (Peru) and Javier Álvarez (Mexico).
Featuring Cuarteto Q-Arte