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Biography
Sergio Rodriguez have been appointed as the new orchestra director for the Sprayberry High School. His orchestra program has been recognized by the Georgia Music Educators Association with superior ratings for outstanding performances. Mr. Rodriguez was named best teacher of the year by the Atlanta Family Award for Excellence in Education!
Mr. Rodriguez is native of San Pedro Sula, Honduras. He began his music studies in violin at the Victoríano López Music School. In 1986 Rodriguez was invited to the United States by the Vermont Symphony Orchestra. He continued his musical education at Southeastern Louisiana University, the University of Kentucky and the Longy School of Music.
As an educator, he taught violin, viola, chamber music and music theory in Honduras at such institutions as the the Magnet School for Music and Children of the Carl Orff System, the National School of Music, the National Conservatory of Music Francisco Díaz Zelaya and Honduras National University. In the United States he has also taught strings at Southeastern Louisiana University and the Acadiana Conservatory of Music in Lafayette, Louisiana. In Georgia, the Mundo Hispánico newspaper recognized Mr. Rodriguez as one of ten outstanding Hispanic citizens of the community (Héroes de nuestra comunidad) for his dedicated work with Latino children.
As conductor, Sergio Rodriguez has directed the Southeastern Louisiana University String Orchestra, Acadiana Symphony Youth Orchestra and Southwestern Louisiana University Orchestra. He founded the National Youth Chamber Orchestra in Tegucigalpa. During the summer of 1998 he received a conductor fellowship at the South Carolina Conductor’s Institute. He has served as guest conductor for the Atlanta Community Symphony Orchestra, Buckhead Chamber Orchestra and Honduras Philharmonic and in 2011 was a conducting fellow at the Bard Conservatory.
He won first prize as conductor of the first Children’s Chorus Competition in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, and was awarded diplomas of achievement from the National School of Music and the Honduras Ministry of Culture. He has also won prizes at the Music in the Parks Festival in Florida. He is founder and conductor of the Dougherty County (Ga.) Youth Symphony Orchestra. His conducting teachers include Donald Portnoy, Adrian Gnam, Harold Faberman, Apo Hsu,Gregory Pritchard, Kirk Muspratt, Samuel Jones, Paul Vernel, Juan Ramirez, Sandra Dakow, Raymond Harvey, Eduardo Navega, Kate Tamrking, and Leon Botstein.
As a violinist, Mr. Rodriguez performs regularly with the Atlanta Virtuosi, and the symphonies of Valdosta, Macon and Albany (Ga.). He has performed with the Honduras National University Chamber Orchestra (concertmaster), Central American Youth Symphony Orchestra, Baton Rouge Symphony, Lexington Philharmonic, Hanover Chamber Orchestra, New England Philharmonic, Dartmouth Symphony, Honduras National Symphony Orchestra and Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (Southeast Asia tour). Mr. Rodriguez also toured to Puerto Rico with the Atlanta Virtuosi. He has given recitals in Honduras and the U.S. He has appeared at music festivals such as the Central American Youth Symphony Orchestra Festival, Costa Rica Music Festival, Honduras Music Festival and Chautauqua Music Festival. He was artist-in-residence at Chalmette Discovery Summer Program in Louisiana.
Mr. Rodriguez published articles about the Honduran musical environment in the newspaper El Heraldo and his own column in El Periodico. He continues to write as a music critic for his home country papers.
As a composer, Sergio Rodriguez has written music for symphony and chamber orchestra, as well as childrens’ musicals and arrangements of Honduran music. Sibelius Music Company has published his compositions at J.W. Pepper Music Company.
