Rafael Parillia

Since 1994 Rafael Parrilla has held the position of Third Trumpet in the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra. Parrilla has been a solo trumpet at the Inter-American Festival of the Arts, the Festival of Youth Symphony Orchestras of the Americas, the Sine Nomine Brass Ensemble, and the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music Symphony Orchestra. In 1991 and 2000 he was a guest trumpeter with the Gabrielli Quintet to participate in their concert with the principal instrumentalists of the New York Philharmonic and the Cleveland Orchestra. Since 2000 Parrilla has worked as a trumpet instructor and teacher of Theory and Solfeggio at the Preparatory School of the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music and in the Free Music Schools program of the Puerto Rico Department of Public Education.Rafael has studied with Roberto Ramírez, principal trumpet of the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra; Manny Laureano, Steve Leisring Trumpet Luis Loubriel, Marie Speziale,Arnold Jacobs, and David Krauss.