I cofounded the record label Guana Records in 1998, and have been the director of Corporación Sonidos de la Tierra since 2007.
My name is Luis Fernando Franco Duque.
I have been making music since 1979.
I have been fortunate to learn from renowned teachers such as Blas Emilio Atehortúa, Andrés Posada, and Álvaro Rojas (Colombia), Alfredo del Mónaco, Juan Carlos Núñez (Venezuela), and Carlos Fariñas (Cuba).
I am a composer, arranger, performer, and researcher.
I have also served as Education Coordinator for the Red de Escuelas de Música de Medellín (2017-2019), Curriculum Director for the Red de Músicas Populares Medellín Vive la Música (2014-2015).
From 2013-2016 I served as General Director of the Interdisciplinary Creative Labs of Barú Island, Barrancabermeja and Salgar, a collaboration between Fonade-Mincultura and Corporación Sonidos de la Tierra.
My catalog as a composer includes large-scale symphonic works such as:
“Ramón El Camaleón” (2004), winner of the XIII National Grant awarded by the Colombian Ministry of Culture, and selected to be performed by the National Symphony of Colombia for the inauguration ceremony of the 2017 Año Colombia-Francia Festival. This piece has been performed in Spain (JOGV), Italy, and Germany (Young Euro Classic 2011).
“Jaira Cari” (1997), was commissioned by the Festival Internacional de Música Contemporánea de Camagüey (Cuba).
“Salabambasú” (1993), was the winner of the Francisco de Paula Santander Grant awarded by Colcultura-Icetex-Colombia.
“Two Symphonic Movements” (1991), was published by the Colombian Ministry of Culture and the National Symphony of Colombia, Almaguer (1991), for two violins and orchestra, was published and performed by the Orquesta Filarmónica Joven de Colombia in 2011.
My chamber music works include Ekos:
- Ekos: The Cosmos in Two Cultures, written to celebrate 110 years of relations between Japan and Colombia (2018) and winner of the “Beca Nacional Itinerancias por Colombia” awarded by the Colombian Ministry of Culture (2011) and the Ministry of External Relations (2012). This work has been also presented at the Berlin FashionWeek 2012 and the Festival of Two Worlds (Italy) in 2012.
- “Bulla Endiablada”, for Prehispanic Instruments of the Tayrona and Zenu Cultures in the 9th-14th Centuries (2009-2010), was published by the Universidad de Antioquia-Mincultura (2014).
- “Remedios la Bella” (1992 – 1993) received an honorary mention in Colcultura’s National Music Prize in the category of chamber music composition (1993).
- “Suite Los Nacimientos” (1988 – 1990), was selected to be performed at the VI Caracas Latinamerican Music Festival in Venezuela (1992).
- “Suite Colombiana” (1987) for solo piano, among others.
Some of my compositions for the stage include:
- Original soundtrack for feature-length films such as:
- “La Mujer del Animal” (2016) directed by Víctor Gaviria, official selection Toronto International Film Festival and International Rome Festival.
- “Juana Tenía El Pelo De Oro” (2005), Festival de Cine de Cartagena 2006.
- “La Vendedora de Rosas” (1997-1998) official selection Cannes Film Festival 1998.
- I have also written soundtracks for short films such as:
- “Sin Regreso” (2008), official selection Short Film Festival of Cuzco (Peru).
- “Voix Du Magdalena Medio” (2002).
- “Jipi-Kogui” (2009), official selection of the Latin American Film Festival in Belgium.
My contemporary dance pieces
include:
“En los Días del Cólera” (2015).
“Amaranta” (2005).
“510 Lunas Después” (2011)
“La Bella Remedios” (1993) and “Los Hijos del Sol” (1989) written for the Danzaconcierto de Colombia.
“Yuma, Río Amigo” (2015) for the Títeres La Fanfarria Theater.
I have produced more than 50 albums and music publications including:
- Ramón El Camaleón, a collection of four interrelated works created for youth orchestras in Colombia (Mincultura, 2010).
- Music of the Colombian Amazon Region (Mincultura, 2013).
- Ekos: Ancestral Sounds-Urban Ears (Guana Records, 2012).
- El Latir del Río (2010).
- Bulla Endiablada for Tayrona Ocarinas from ca. 1,200 to 1,500 (2006-2008).
- El Brujo y su Timba (2007).
- Reversiones, Ensamble Sinsonte (2007).
- Entre Pasillos y Bambucos, An Introductory Music Method to Western Andean Music (2005).
- Musicians without Borders (Japan, 2003).
- Colombian Jazz Puerto Candelaria (2002).
- Seresta (2000) which received a Latin Grammy nomination in 2001.
I have worked as a producer, composer, and arranger in more than 15 children productions, including:
- Producer, arranger and performer for Lolalá, vamos a cantar, a children series for the TV channel Señal Colombia-Corporación Cantoalegre (2016-2017).
- Orchestral arrangements for Canto Alegre Navidad en Paz for Corporación Canto Alegre and the Iberacademy Orchestra (2015).
- Producer and music director for Un Son para Niños (2003).
- Arranger and performer for Caja de Sorpresas by Sonia Martínez (2006).
- Arranger, recording engineer, and perfomer in La Tierra es la casa de todos, for Corporación Canto Alegre (2003).
- Producer, arranger and performer for Un dos tres por mí y por todos for Corporación Mi Sangre (2007)
- Canto Alegre canta a Rita del Prado, for Corporación Canto Alegre, among others.
I have been featured in the composer series “Serie de Retratos de un Compositor, Concierto Monográfico dedicado al Compositor colombiano Luis Fernando Franco” presented by the Banco de la República de Colombia-Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango in 2010.
+ 30
Years
making music
+ 50
albums and music publications
+ 15