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The Chilean pianist, organist, and choral conductor, Danilo Rodríguez, began his studies in piano, organ, and choral conducting with Eliana Opazo.
Since 2000, Danilo Rodríguez has participated in numerous concerts both as a soloist and in chamber groups. He has participated in series such as "Jóvenes Intérpretes," organized by the Instituto Chileno Norteamericano de Cultura, and "Jóvenes Intérpretes," organized by the Sociedad Federico Chopin de Chile. He has also participated in educational concerts at the Centro de Extensión de la PUC in formats such as chamber trio and duet for voice and piano, as well as in the celebration of the 250th anniversary of W.A. Mozart's birth and in contemporary music ensembles for concert series organized by GEMA and the PUC. He has also been a pianist in the Trío Santiago and the Banda Minúscula band.
In 2005, Danilo Rodríguez performed as pianist and accompanying organist for the Coro del Arzobispado de Santiago at the canonization of Father Alberto Hurtado in Vatican City, Rome. That same year, he won the competition for piano professor of the PUC's non-curricular teaching outreach program, where he worked until 2008. In 2007, he participated as a pianist in a Fondart project honoring the German-Chilean composer Leni Alexander.
From 2007 to the present, Danilo Rodríguez has served as a professor of liturgical music, piano, and organ at the Seminario Pontificio Mayor de Santiago. In the second half of 2008, he worked on the "Pianista en Residencia" program at the Escuela de Cultura y Difusión Artística de Coltauco, Sixth Region, where he taught chamber music with the school's children and prepared the complementary piano program that would be offered beginning in 2009.
Since 2010, Danilo Rodríguez has been a professor and accompanying pianist in the double-bass, percussion, and chamber choir classes at the PUC. In this position, he has participated in various concerts in the official IMUC season and as a continuist in the Bach Santiago project. He has accompanied master-classes given by renowned international performers such as Yo-Yo Ma, Catalin Rotaru, T-J Harper, Virginia Bono, Ricardo Portillo, Lourdes Sánchez, and Joshua Habermann, among others.
Since 2011, Danilo Rodríguez has directed the Choir and Orchestra of the Arzobispado de Santiago and is Chapel Master of the Catedral Metropolitana. In this role, his musical direction stands out in the celebration of the Te Deum Ecuménico, which takes place every September 18 at the Catedral de Santiago.
Since 2019, Danilo Rodríguez has been invited by the Orquesta Sinfónica de Chile to collaborate as organist on various concert programs, highlighting W.A. Mozart and Johannes Brahms' Requiem, Gustav Holst's The Planets, and Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra. |
