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Carlos Coste

Since he was young he was an active person always in contact with the nature,  trying to find out which sport he liked the most, He used to enjoy surfing with hes friends as a teenager. Whe he started to study Mechanical engineering at the Universidad Central de Venezuela,  he started to practice judo, aproximatly a year later after he started judo, in 1997 he starts a course of scooba diving in the university. therefore he felt atractive to the diving practice but also to fishing under water so he decide to stop practicing judo to dedicate fully to both of this sports.

Gustavo Dudamel

Gustavo Dudamel

Gustavo Adolfo Dudamel Ramirez the thirty year old famous orchestra conductor, was born in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. Son of a trombonist and a voice teacher. Started to study music since little at the music school “El sistema” (a famous Venezuelan musical education program), his first instrument was the violin which he started to play at ten years old  and went to two different schools to learn more about violin. He began to study conducting in 1995 with Rodolfo Saglimbeni and later in 1999 with Jose Antonio Abreu.He was named conductor of the “Orquesta Sinfonica de Venezuela” (the national youth orquestra and tour many countries.

Gustavo debuted with the Philarmonia, the Israel Philharmonic, and the LA Philharmonic, among others, in 2005, and also signed a recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon. He made his debut at La Scala, Milan, in November 2006.

On April 16, 2007, He conducted the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestrain a concert in commemoration of the 80th birthday of Pope Benedict XVI, withHilary Hahn as solo violinist, with the Pope himself and many other church dignitaries among the audience.

He is currently the principal conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony in Gothenburg, Sweden, and music director of the LA Philharmonic in Los Angeles, California. And also is the artistic director of Orquesta Sinfonica Simon Bolivar in Caracas, Venezuela.