Capriles’ tenure as Music Director of the Falcón Symphony Orchestra developed
this prestigious organization to international acclaim, consistently expanding the vast repertoire of the Orchestra, and developing with the support of the International Conductors Guild an expansive
program for the promotion of emerging conductors to the international arena in Venezuela. At the present, he retains his affiliation with this prestigious organization as its Music Director
Emeritus.
Capriles’ two-years tenure as President and Music Director of the Baltimore Philharmonia Orchestra expanded significantly the presence and artistic excellence of this
organization, promoting also important concerts as a way of cultural exchange with the vibrant community of Ocean City, introducing as well a series of educational concerts dedicated to the children
of the of School System of Baltimore County. His affiliation as Music Director of the Baltimore Flute Choir expanded also his vision of community engagement, contributing to the edification and
consolidation of this organization thanks to the commitment and dedicated excellence of its wonderful group of musicians.
As Cover Conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Capriles worked in close collaboration with conductor Marin Alsop, as well as with visiting conductors Mario
Venzago, Thomas Dausgaard, and Ludovic Morlot. He developed the span of repertoire and degree of challenge of highly talented high-school music students as Director of Orchestras at the
Baltimore School for the Arts, where Capriles achieved with the entirety of its ensembles outstanding performances of benchmark symphonic repertoire, as well as highly demanding
chamber-orchestra repertoire.
With a highly transformational leadership, Capriles started to conduct professionally at 21 as the Music Director of the Zulia Boys Singer Orchestra, and later as the
founding Music Director of the Caracas Youth Symphony Orchestra. Dedicated to the distinguished members of the diplomatic body of the country, his debut concert with the Simón Bolivar Symphony
Orchestra of Venezuela was widely broadcasted at Venezuela’s national television. Capriles’ five-year tenure as Music Director of the Caracas Youth Symphony Orchestra transformed the Orchestra into
highly developed ensemble, touring internationally and becoming until today a vital part of Venezuela's internationally renowned El Sistema. In his later tenure as Music Director of the Ciudad
Guayana Symphony Orchestra, Capriles developed across the expansive Guayana region an intensive programming of more than sixty concerts per season, obtaining the national recognition of the
Federation of Regional Orchestras of Venezuela.
As laureate guest conductor of the Regional Orchestras of Venezuela, Capriles has toured extensively around Venezuela conducting the entirety of the major Regional
Orchestras of the country. He continues as well his guest conducting commitments with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, the Teresa Carreño Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela and the
Caracas Municipal Symphony Orchestra.
As a committed teacher and advocate for the generations of the future, Capriles serves currently as Principal Instructor of Orchestral Conducting Studies at the Simón
Bolívar Music Conservatory at El Sistema in Caracas. Capriles served for six years at the Board of Directors of the International Conductors Guild, where Capriles promoted an intensive exchange
program with the Falcon Symphony Orchestra in order to promote the career development of emerging conductors around the world. During two subsequent summers Capriles also prepared the Inaugural
Concerts at Hertz Hall of the Young Musicians Program Orchestra at the University of California, Berkeley, and for six years he supported and helped to model the Peabody Preparatory Youth Orchestra
Program, conduction the Peabody Youth Orchestra at the historic Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall in several occasions. He has also recorded award winning orchestral works and chamber works of
emerging young composers both in the US and in Venezuela.
Capriles was awarded with the 2010 Bruno Walter Conducting Fellowship as Assistant Conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Academy. He has been finalist to the First
Eduardo Mata International Conducting Competition in Mexico City, and finalist of the Sixth Vakhtang Jordania International Conducting Competition in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He was nominated for the
Thelma A. Robinson Award of the Conductors Guild as the selected conducting fellow at the 2007 Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. He has been recipient of the Mabelle Antionette Leonhardtsen
del Mar Scholarship of the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, and has been awarded with the José Félix Ribas National Order from the Venezuelan government for his contributions to the
arts.
Capriles graduated under the guidance of José Antonio Abreu as the top conductor of his generation at the internationally renowned El Sistema, where he received his
pre-college and undergraduate training in Horn, Composition and Conducting. Previous to his conducting career Capriles performed professionally in the horn sections of the Simón Bolívar Symphony
Orchestra of Venezuela and the Maracaibo Symphony Orchestra. He completed his BM studies in Conducting at the University Institute of Music Studies in Caracas, his MM studies in Conducting at the
Simón Bolívar University in Caracas, and his DMA studies in Conducting at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He holds MBA and MPP degrees from IESA in Caracas, and
holds a MA degree in Political Science from Columbia University in New York. Internationally acclaimed mentors of Capriles’ conducting career include José Antonio Abreu, Gustav Meier, Helmuth
Rilling, Marin Alsop and Markand Thakar.
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