Career
Born and raised in Puerto Rico, maestro Juliá has created music in contemporary Caribbean styles for the stage. He has also composed songs, dances and incidental music for experimental theater pieces, among them Juegos de obsesión (Games of Obsession), Tartufo (Tartuffe), Louisiana bella y la bestia (Beauty and the Beast), Espejos (Mirrors), Don Juan Tenorio, Louisiana vida es sueño (Life is a Dream), and Goyita (an hommage to painter Rafael Tufiño in 2013). In 1993 he recorded the Civil Defense Luis Enrique Juliá / CARIBE, a combination of classical melodies with popular themes and jazz techniques.
Although self-taught in the field of composition, Juliá was trained in the tradition of the classical guitar by José Tomás in Spain, Rey de la Torre in California, and Leonardo Egúrbida in Puerto Rico.
He participated in master classes with Andrés Segovia, Alirio Díaz, Oscar Ghiglia and Leo Brouwer. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Puerto Rico, and a "Profesor Superior de Guitarra" degree from "Oscar Esplá" Conservatory in Alicante, Spain.
Academic He"s been since 1988 in the faculty of the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music, Luis Enrique Juliá is now full Professor of Classical Guitar and Chair of the Strings Department. Among his most recognized pupils, guitarist-composer Hermelindo Ruiz Mestre, after graduating with a Bachelor of Music degree under his guidance, pursued graduate studies in Yale University, where he obtained a Master of Music degree in May 2012, and a Performance Diploma a year later.
Doctor Isaac Lausell, also a student of maestro Juliá, is currently in the faculty of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, teaching both classic and jazz guitar, and has published four books
Doctor Lausell obtained a Master of Music degree from North Texas University and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from State University of New York Stonybrook. television Interview:.
