Miguel Ituarte (born 1968, Getxo) is a Basque Spanish pianist.
Ituarte began piano lessons at the Bilbao Conservatory with Isabel Picaza and Juan Carlos Gómez Zubeldia, and then was trained at the Madrid Conservatory studying with Almudena Cano. In Amsterdam, he studied at the Sweelinck Conservatorium with Jan Wijn. In 1995, he won the XXXVII Premio de Jaén and the IV Fundación Guerrero Competition, and was a finalist at Santander's XIII Paloma O'Shea Competition. He has performed internationally.
The Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music is a public conservatory in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It has hosted a number of international musicians as students as well as faculty, and has a longstanding relationship with the classical music movement in Puerto Rico, including the annual Casals Festival and the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra (PRSO).
Juan José Elhuyar Lubize was a Spanish chemist and mineralogist, who was best known for being first to isolate tungsten with his brother Fausto Elhuyar in 1783.
Arturo Somohano Portela was a musical composer and director of the San Juan Symphony Orchestra, which is now named after him.
Ángel "Cucco" Peña is a composer, musician, singer, and record producer.
Carlos Fernández Shaw was a Spanish poet, playwright, and journalist. He wrote the texts for many zarzuelas, including La revoltosa, La chavala and Las bravías, all in collaboration with José López Silva and with music by Ruperto Chapí. He also wrote the libretto for Chapí's through-written opera Margarita la tornera. He later wrote the libretto for La vida breve by Manuel de Falla, based on his tragic poem of gypsy life La chavalilla and drawing on ideas from La chavala. He wrote articles for La epoca, La illustración and El correo. He was also among the contributors of the Madrid-based avant-garde magazine Prometeo.
Gonzalo de Olavide y Casenave was a Spanish composer born in Madrid.
Juan Manuel Cajigal y Niño was a Spanish Captain General, born in Cádiz, in 1754.
Juan de Castellanos was a Spanish poet, soldier and Catholic priest who lived in the New Kingdom of Granada. As one of the early Spanish chroniclers he has contributed to the knowledge of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, mainly the Muisca.
Jan Wijn was a Dutch pianist and pedagogue.
Wbaldino Acosta was an Argentine politician who served as Governor of his province of San Juan.
Ricardo Castro Herrera was a Mexican concert pianist and composer, considered the last romantic of the time of Porfirio Díaz.
Mariana Dimitrova Gurkova-Franco is a Bulgarian pianist, born in Sofia. Gurkova, who nowadays is a naturalised Spanish citizen, settled in Madrid in 1988. A former head professor at Badajoz's Conservatory, she is a teacher at Madrid's Real Conservatorio Superior.
Jesús González Alonso is a Spanish pianist.
Joaquín Soriano is a Spanish pianist.
Joaquín Achúcarro is a Basque Spanish classical pianist.
The Albéniz Foundation, is a private non-profit organisation promoting classical music in Spain through its programmes: the Reina Sofía School of Music, the Paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition, the Isaac Albéniz Library and Research Centre, and the International Chamber Music Institute of Madrid. The foundation is named after the Spanish composer and pianist Isaac Albéniz, as he represents the renaissance of Spanish music at the beginning of the 20th century in Europe. The foundation is based in Madrid and has a permanent office in Santander.
Melliangee Pérez-Maldonado is a Puerto Rican lyric soprano singer of classical music and opera as well as other music genres.
Zulema de la Cruz Castillejo is a Spanish pianist and composer.
The 1973 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby was won by the selection of Buenos Aires that beat in the final the selection of Unión de Rugby de Rosario
La Genuina was a military uprising in Venezuela, led by General Luciano Mendoza. It took place in Bolívar state in September 1867, and was held against Juan Crisóstomo Falcón. He was followed by General Miguel Antonio Rojas in Aragua State and also by Pedro Arana in Carabobo State.