Andres Rodriguez

Andres Rodriguez

Born in Santiago, Chile, Andres Rodriguez is General and Artistic Director of the Municipal Theater of Santiago. He graduated from the Law Department of the Catholic University of Chile in 1978 and then studied at the Benedetto Marcello School of Music in Italy in 1979. In addition to serving as member of the Board of several Cultural organizations in Chile, he also sits on the judging comities of various contests in the arts field. He is frequent recipient of various invitations from the governments of the U.S., France, Germany and other countries in arts and cultural affairs. He is recipient of Medallion of the Cross of the 1st Order from the German government (1998). In Chile he is recipient of the Ernesto Pinto Lagarrigue’s Medal (1997) and the Pablo Perez Zanartu Award (2004). He assumed his present post as General and Artistic Director of the Municipal Theater of Santiago in 1986 after being appointed as Executive and Artistic Director on 1981.
He visited Japan in September, 2006, for the purpose of meeting with representatives of organizations in the fields of culture and the arts to exchange opinions on exchange in the arts between Japan and Chile and to study and observe traditional Japanese arts.