About
Music for a while was founded in early 2021. We are a new project for the mediation of art and culture in the context of concerts and theater performances using new media
Our goal is to promote music in different sectors of society, music lovers as well as those who have not had contact with music on stage. For this we are looking for innovative means as well as current proposals, all surrounded by a high artistic level, thus creating a living space for the exchange of reflections and ideas in our society.
Daniel Valero
Baritono
Daniel Valero, born in Mexico City, completed his opera studies at the Conservatorium of Mexico City. He worked under the teaching of esteemed figures such as Rosa Maria Diez, Isabelle Gentile, Montserrat Caballé, and Theodore Coresi. He furthered his education in Vienna with Wolfgang Dosch at the “Musik und Kunst Privat Universität.”
As a singer, Valero has graced renowned venues and festivals across Mexico, Vienna, and Germany, performing at distinguished locations such as “Silvestre Revueltas,” “Blass Galindo,” “Auditorio Nacional,” “Theater an der Gumpendorferstrasse,” the “Bad Ischl Lehár Festival” and “Volksoper Wien”. He has collaborated with prominent artists, including Ennio Morricone, Andrea Schwarz, Thomas Enzinger and Joseph Köplinger in operettas and Operas such as Der Zigeunerbaron Die Csárdásfürstin and Der Rosenkavalier.
Valero’s experience extends to producing, where he organized tours in Germany with “Konzert-Direktion Schmidtke,” fulfilling roles such as tour manager, stage manager, and assistant director. His work led him to the Theater and Orchestra Neustrelitz, where he contributed to productions like Ein Walzertraum, Eugene Onegin, Carmen, Der Freischütz, and Der Liebestrank.
As an author and stage director, Valero has written and directed musical theatre pieces such as Tutto Mozart, Gruß aus Wien, and Mia Bella Italia in Vienna and Germany. His stage direction credits also include Der Bär at the Theater and Orchestra Neustrelitz.
In 2021, Valero founded “Music for a While,” an initiative dedicated to promoting the arts, with a particular focus on theatre and music.
Alexander Riaño
Artistic Director
Alexander Riaño was born in Bogotá, Colombia and graduated in piano with a major in conducting from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He continued his musical education in Vienna with two studies in choral conducting (Erwin Ortner) and orchestra conducting (Uroš Lajovic) at the MDW Vienna. He is musical director in various ensembles in Vienna and Austria.
In 2016 he was a guest conductor with the Orchestra of the IX. International Piano Festival where he conducted Frédéric Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op.21, and F. Poulenc’s Concerto for Two Pianos in D minor, FP 61. At the final concert of this festival, Alexander conducted the Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra by G. Gershwin and the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor op.18, with Jorge Luis Prats as the soloist.
From 2016 he has focused on theater music as a conductor, assistant and répétiteur/choir teacher and actively participated in various opera projects: WMGV (China Tour -Silver Operetta and Viennese Music- 2017); Opera Burg Gars (Otello-2016, Magic Flute-2017, Tosca-2018); At the Philharmonia Choir (JOPERA: Carmen-2017, The Barber of Seville-2018, Martha-2019) (Brucknerhaus Linz: Die Fledermaus-2019)
In 2019 Alexander founded the Renaissance Ensemble, the ensemble is characterized as a highlight of early music, with regular concerts in Vienna.
In 2021 he founded the association -Music for a While- with the aim of promoting, creating and producing all forms of performing arts.
Liliana Arreola
Soprano
Born in the city of Chihuahua in the state of the same name in Mexico, where she studied piano, dance and singing, and there she received her dance diploma from the Autonomous University of Chihuahua, her diploma in choral conducting and music studies from the local conservatory of music. She successfully completed her singing training in Vienna at the Prayner Conservatory for Music and Dramatic Art.
In her work as a singer, she performed with various ensembles, choir groups and music associations in various concerts, also in national and international festivals in various cities in Mexico, Europe, New Mexico and Texas in the United States of America. Her repertoire includes opera, operetta, zarzuela, Latin American art songs, modern music, chamber music, oratorio and didactic concerts adapted to children’s opera.
Appearances on the stages of Austria, to name a few, Weltmuseum, Cervantes Institute, Kursalon, Ehrbar Saal, Theater am Spiettelberg, and Rathaus.
Participation in festivals and performances in Austria at Europe Days of Music, Dia de la Música (Day of Music), Dia E (Day E), Voice Mania, Long Night of Music, We Are Vienna, Festival of Nations in Styria, Mexican Festival of the Dead and Artists in Residence from the Federal Chancellery and Culture Contact. As a choir member at the Burg Gars Opera in Lower Austria and at the Johann Strauss Operetta in Vienna in Germany.