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Alfredo Balcacer

Born: March 11, 1984

Alfredo Balcacer (b. March 11, 1984) is a guitarist and educator from the Dominican Republic. He graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Music Performance from Utah State University and a Master's Degree in Music Performance at Western Michigan University. After coming to the United States, he has studied privately with Corey and Mike Christiansen, Fareed Haque, Tom Knific. Alfredo has performed in the U.S., Brazil, Canada and the Dominican Republic, and has taught guitar privately for more than 15 years. Besides being a former member of award-winning groups such a Gold Company, Utah State University Jazz Orchestra, Western Michigan University Jazz Orchestra and Mas Que Nada Latin Ensemble, Alfredo was also a recipient of scholarships from the Dominican Republic, Utah State Caine College of the Arts and the WMU Department of Music

9 Paredes

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020

Alfredo Balcacer: 9 Paredes

by Dan Bilawsky
October 15, 2020

If there's anything that can bind the artistic community in 2020, it's an understanding of isolation's impact. For guitarist Alfredo Balcacer, who was quarantining in his home city of Santo Domingo when COVID-19 closed everybody in, a sense of disorder and frustration, leavened by solace and acceptance, quickly became the norm. But rather than sit by ...

Suspended Sea

By Alfredo Balcacer

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2019
Track listing: La Silla Marron; It's Taking Too Long; Difusion Azul; The Mourning Process; Inside My Head; La Danza Del Viento; A Love Treaty; Con El Alma; Tales Of The Horse Back Rider.

Alfredo Balcacer: Suspended Sea

by Dan Bilawsky
September 8, 2019

The only constant is change, and it's in that phrase that we can best suss out the meaning(s) embedded within this debut from Dominic guitarist Alfredo Balcacer. Expressing both roots and evolutionary branches, Balcacer hangs his lines on the sounds of his homeland while extending their reaches across the Caribbean to address his growth as an ...