Music Institutions in Costa Rica

The classical music organization include the Costa Rican National Symphony Orchestra (formed in 1970), which was formed by the Americans Gerald Brown and Irwin Hoffman, and the recent by the Japanese music director, Chosei Komatsu, the country is also a home to an opera organization, one of the first professional choirs in the Central America and the state-subsidized youth groups that belongs to the National Symphony Orchestra. 

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The Universidad de Costa Rica has a show group and also an orchestra which is besides an early music group and has several chamber music groups. The National University, Universidad Nacional has a resident chord quartet and a symphony orchestra that has many successful premeire at the National Theatre in San Jose on May 10, 2007 and was formed by Dieter Lehnhoff. It also have a successful piano school that was led by the Russian virtuoso, Alexandr Sklioutovsky, another famous groups such as EI Café Chorale and the Sura Chmaber Chior and also the pianist Ismael Pacheo who was the second Costa Rica Rican pianist to perform at the prestigious Carnegie Hall in the year 2001 and also at the Musikverein in the year 2007. Both the Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR) in San Jose and the Universidad Nacional (UNA) in the Heredia have well-designed programmes in music, where the students can study a bachelor’s degrees in instrumental and vocal performing, composition, and conducting and also a doctoral degree in Central American Arts and Letters with an emphasis in music.

The current singers include the Mario Alfaguell, Marvin Camacho, Alejandro Cardona, Bernal Flores, Benjamin Gutierrez, Lius Diego Herra, and Eddie Mora and so on.