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Organ performers
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The organist Byron González Báez was born on July 4, 1963 in Santiago de Chile.
It began He completed his musical studies with piano teacher Johanna Arias, beginning in the art of pipe organ performance with the distinguished Mr. Luis González Catalán.
He made Theory and harmony studies with maestro Carlos Botto.
In 1986 he obtained the title of English Teacher awarded by the Chilean‑British Professional Institute of Culture.
During the eighties he was assistant organist to Luis González at the Benedictine Monastery of Las Condes and at the Nuestra Señora de Loreto Church of the Chilean Air Force.
He performed also as titular organist of the Parish of Divina Providencia.
attended to the King Instrument courses taught by Professor Miguel Letelier during the Frutillar Musical Weeks of 1982.
He later attended to the Master Classes on Baroque Music Interpretation taught by the German organist Ludger Lohmman.
In 1990 he was invited to a course sponsored by the Goethe Institute in San Juan, Argentina, taught by the prominent German organist Matthias Einsenberg.
For nearly a decade he was the titular organist of the Benedictine Abbey and the San Benito Abad Parish in Buenos Aires, performing numerous concerts as a soloist and accompanist for chamber orchestras and vocal and instrumental soloists.
Starting in 2003, he formally began his Bachelor's studies in Organ with Professor Dr. Roy Wilson D.M.A. at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas.
He was senior organist at Saint Paul on the Plains Anglican Church in Lubbock, Texas.
Byron González died on January 30, 2014.
RIP
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