Maria Betania Hernandez

Mara Betania Hernndez is a Venezuelan composer and multi-instrumentalist. She was

born in Calabozo, Gurico State, on November 14th, 1993.
She studied from 2002 to 2012 on the Raimundo Pereira Youth Symphonic Orchestra,
being the violin her main instrument. In this period, she toured Cuba and Germany as the
violinist of the chamber music ensemble Aramac.
In 2012 she enters the Universidad Nacional Experimental de las Artes (UNEARTE), where
shes currently studying the last semester to obtain the Bachelor Degree of Music in
Composition. In this University, she has studied with Masters Gerardo Gerulewicz, Ricardo
Teruel, Orlando Cardozo, among others.
In 2014 she founded the Creative Circle of Contemporary Music (CCMC) with fellow
composers Leandro Limonghi, Daniel Oropeza and Gabriel Delgado, where she works as
Artistic Producer, Composer and Instrumentalist. This organization was created to
promote the contemporary classical music in Venezuela. Her musical pieces, like
Secuencia Imaginativa No. 1 (string trio), Movimiento (violin solo), Reaccionario No. 1
(maracas and electronics), Otoo (guitar and flute), have been premiered in different
concert halls in Caracas and in the Bard College, New York State (USA).
Besides her composing activities, she has dabbled in many musical disciplines; she has a
Diploma of Orchestral Conducting from the Universidad Central de Venezuela, where she
studied with Miguel ngel Monrroy and Juan Francisco Sans; she studied Venezuelan
cuatro with professors Hctor Molina and Andrs Cartaya shes currently the cuatro
player of Cartayas Venezuelan Music band-; she plays Venezuelan maracas, and she has
premiered her own Reaccionario No. 1, Gabriel Borreros Eniritmia, and she played the
Mexican composer Javier Alvarezs renowned piece Temazcal, all of them written for
maracas and electronics; as a violinist, she has played in numerous chamber music and
Venezuelan music ensembles. She studied the violin with Cuban Master Pablo Vsquez,
who is the Concertino of the Orquesta Sinfnica de Aragua, one of the most relevant
orchestras in Venezuela.
She collaborated as a transcriber for Doctor Katrin Lengwinats work Construction, Social
Pactice and Music Production of Two Reed Instruments among the Wayuu Indians from
Western Venezuela (2013), and shes also Dr. Lengwinats assistant for the course LatinAmerican Traditional Music, in the UNEARTE. Hernndez has recently studied Cultural
Events Production and Social Network Management in different institutes in Caracas.