Ángel Carrión has a wide range of experience in the world of music. For many years, he worked as an assistant librarian at the Amaury Veray Library of the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music (PRCM). Among his various responsibilities, he engraved music by nineteenth- and twentieth-century Puerto Rican composers as part of the Library’s digitization project. He also served as Head Librarian of the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra during its 2016-2017 season. Currently, he teaches piano at the Preparatory School of the PRCM and is Assistant Musical Director at the Union Church of San Juan.
As professional musician in Puerto Rico’s cultural scene, he has played the piano, sung and acted in many dramatized short story and poetry readings produced by Producciones Aleph. He has also collaborated with the Liga Puertorriqueña de Improvisación Teatral as a guest keyboardist and been vocal coach to actors in musicals, appearing as a guest singer on a few occasions. During his Conservatory years, he played piano and harpsichord in various chamber music and early music ensembles.
He graduated from the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music, with a BM in Voice and from the Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe with an MA in the History of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. He studied Voice with Zoraida López and William Woodruff and Piano under Cecilia Talavera. He has also taken piano lessons with María del Carmen Gil and organ lessons with Dr. Andrés Mojica.
He owes his initial musical education to the performing arts workshops sponsored by the municipality of Caguas, where he discovered the world of handbell ringing thanks to Carmen Jiménez, and to the Escuela Libre de Música de Caguas, where his teachers were María del Carmen Rivera (piano), Luz Milagros Santana (choir and voice) and Francisco Figueroa Luciano (sight-reading and theory).