RICHARD FRANKEL & JOE WATSON  -  Executive Producers and General Managers

Richard Frankel and Joe Watson have been working together for the past 20 years in New York and on tour in the U.S. Shows general managed by Richard Frankel Productions and FGTM include The Encounter, Stomp, Penn & Teller, Smokey Joe's Cafe, The Sound of Music, The Weir, Swing!, The Producers, Hairspray, Little Shop of Horrors, Sweeney Todd, Company, Young Frankenstein, Gypsy, The Norman Conquests, Finian's Rainbow, Burn the Floor, A Little Night Music, The Rocky Horror Show, Forever Tango, Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays, Necessary Targets, Old Jews Telling Jokes, Murder Ballad, Los Monologos de la Vagina, Lennon: Through a Glass Onion and Flashdance. Richard and his partners Tom Viertel and Steve Baruch own and operate Feinstein's/54 Below, Broadway's supper club.

CESAR OROZCO  -  Composer

Author of the Venezuela Viva and the Orinoco musical scores, Cesar is a Cuban/Venezuelan pianist, composer and arranger with an innovative approach blending Venezuelan and Cuban music with Jazz and Flamenco. Music runs in the family: his father Danilo Orozco was one of the most influential musicologists in Cuba, mentor of luminaries such as Compay Segundo (Buena Vista Social Club). Cesar began his musical studies at age seven and in 1998 graduated in violin studies and music ensemble conducting from the National School of Arts in Havana. Soon after, he moved to Venezuela to join the Carabobo Symphony Orchestra as a violinist for five years. After two years being pianist of Latin Grammy winner band Guaco, he became part of the Venezuela Viva team in 2004 and toured with the show to ten countries as musical director and pianist.

Having moved to the U.S. in 2012, Cesar received a full tuition assistantship from The Peabody Institute of the John Hopkins University where he completed a GPD major in Jazz Piano. He has produced 3 CD’s: Son con Pajarillo (2007), Orozcojam (2010) which was awarded Best Vocal Instrumental Album at Cubadisco 2012, and most recently his debut recording in the U.S. No Limits for Tumbao. Some of the artists he has worked with include Paquito D’Rivera, Pedrito Martínez, Oscar D'León, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Simón Díaz and Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, among others, and he has performed at the Bimhuis Jazz Club (Amsterdam) and The Kennedy Center (Washington D.C.). In 2014, he received a DownBeat Magazine Student Music Award. Cesar is also an active clinician and educator. He has taught master classes at Berklee College of Music (Boston), Loyola University (Baltimore) and is faculty at Wharton Institute of the Performing Arts (Berkley Heights, New Jersey) and at Corlears School (Manhattan).

PAUL BOGAEV  -  Music Producer

Paul is a Grammy and Emmy Award winning music producer, director, arranger, orchestrator and composer. He received his first Grammy for Elton John and Tim Rice’s hit musical Aida, for which he produced and conducted the Tony award-winning score. He was also music director on Broadway for Tarzan with Phil Collins, Bombay Dreams (Tony nomination for best orchestrations), the Tony Best Musical Sunset Boulevard starring Glenn Close, Aspects of Love, Chess, Les Miserables, Starlight Express, Cats and The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber with Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman. Paul also was part of the creative team of the musical Spider-man as music producer.

Paul’s second Grammy was as executive producer of the soundtrack of the Oscar-winning film musical Chicago. His other films include Nine, Across the Universe, Dreamgirls, Connie and Carla, and the animated Lion King, Tarzan, Mulan, and Emperor's New Groove. Paul also served as music director of the ABC-TV film musicals Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, Annie (Emmy award) and South Pacific. Among the pop, film, and theater stars he has worked with are Sting, Phil Collins, Elton John, AR Rahman, Bono and The Edge, Barbra Streisand, Whitney Houston, Brandy, Beyonce, Toni Braxton, Michael Bolton, Hugh Jackman, Glenn Close, Jennifer Hudson, Eddie Murphy, Jamie Foxx, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah, Catherine Zeta Jones, Daniel Day-Lewis, Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Nicole Kidman, Keith Urban, Judi Dench, Liam Neeson, Harry Connick, Jr., Drew Barrymore, Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Bates, Sophia Loren, Kate Hudson, and Fergie. As a symphony conductor, Paul conducted the music for Francis Ford Coppola’s presentation of the silent film epic NAPOLEON with major orchestras around the world.

DANIELA TUGUES  -  Choreographer

With more than 30 years on stage and having been educated by masters of the genre in Spain, Daniela is a Venezuelan Flamenco dancer, teacher and choreographer with a distinctive eclectic approach to several world dance genres. She has been the principal dancer and dance director of Venezuela Viva and Orinoco choreographing both shows along with Carolina Lizarraga. Daniela has danced in Casapatas 'the temple of Flamenco' in Madrid, and has been invited to teach at the unique 'Amor de Dios' Flamenco dance school in Madrid. She is featured in the film Flamenco (1994) by the Academy Award nominee and multiple award-winning Spanish director Carlos Saura.

Daniela has been regularly in high demand teaching workshops around  the world and she is currently considered the ambassador of a new dance expression called Flamenco Latino which blends Flamenco with Latin dance. Daniela also has been the lead female dancer of the Paco Peña Famenco Dance Company with which she has toured extensively and participated in festivals around the world. All in all, she has performed in the United States, Canada, Venezuela, Peru, Costa Rica, Argentina, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, England, Luxembourg, Holland, Belgium, Romania, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. The New York Times has praised Daniela as follows: “Dancing her Tientos, Mrs. Tugues was a queen of the flamenco lean, cool as low-riding car as she tilted back her regal torso. Her hands had a gnarled beauty, her face a look of sweet pain..."

GLORIA CARNEVALI  -  Conceiver

Gloria spent most of her childhood and adolescence travelling around America and Europe, leading the typical nomadic life of a diplomat’s child. Differences and the inclination to compare and mix them, tinged her view of the world from very early on. Fond of literature and history, she is widely read in Spanish, Portuguese, English, French and Italian. She studied philosophy at the Central University of Venezuela specializing in philosophy of art. Head of Education at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Caracas, director of the Museum of Modern Art of the Soto Foundation in Ciudad Bolívar, and research fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge, she is the author of two books on the philosophy of art.

Gloria spent twelve years as cultural attaché in London, producing around forty events a year, both national and multilateral. She funded the Bolívar Hall International Guitar Festival. This included a student series in which young guitarists from eight British academies played together for the first time, a fixture now of other guitar festivals in London. Time Out magazine included her in its article The Specialists, recommending the Bolívar Hall as the best place in London to discover Latin American talent. Three times she travelled with teams of the BBC Radio and Television to record music in Venezuela which resulted in The Hidden Music of Venezuela series of BBC Radio 3 with Lucy Durán and an appearance in the film The Harp. She created the group Trabuco with seven maestros of Venezuelan strings and maracas, a group which toured Great Britain and Europe and recorded a CD at the West Deutsche Rundfunk in 2008. She currently lives and writes in Cambridge, UK.