Ángel Reyes
Age: 106 born February 14, 1919
Ángel Reyes (February 14, 1919 – November 17, 1988), originally from Cuba, was an American violinist. A son of Ángel Reyes Camejo, Ángel Reyes was a Premier Prix graduate from the Paris Conservatory at the age of sixteen, and a prize-winner of the Ysaye International Violin Competition in Brussels. He was conductor of the Thirteenth Sound Group of Havana, music director of the Cuban Military Police Band and a composer of Cuban traditional instrumental and vocal works. Camejo recorded Julián Carrillo's Preludio a Colón (Prelude to Christopher Columbus) on the Columbia Records label. As a concert soloist, he appeared with the Philadelphia Or...read more