Music from
Heart to Heart

Producer, arranger, and orchestral conductor, Emanuel Olivieri has been professor at the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music and principal violist of the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra.

As an instrumentalist, he has given recitals in United States, South America and Europe. He has commissioned viola works by Roberto Milano, Carlos Carrillo, Alberto Guidobaldi, Armando Ramírez, Howard Buss, Nicky Aponte, and recorded the album Music of Puerto Rico for Viola and Piano, the soundtrack for Jack Delano's film Los aguinaldos del infante, and Roberto Milano's Concerto for Viola, among other pieces.

As a conductor, he has led the following orchestras: Puerto Rico Symphony, Puerto Rico Philharmonic, National Symphony of Costa Rica, National Symphony of Panama, National Symphony of Guatemala, Querétaro Philharmonic (México), Saltillo Philharmonic (México), Sinaloa de las Artes Symphony (México) and Boca del Río Philharmonic (México).

He produced the albums Cuatro Concertinos by Roberto Milano and Danzas para piano by Tavárez (3 volumes) with students from the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music. As part of the latter project, he prepared a printed edition of all the surviving Tavárez danzas. His most recent recordings include works by Alberto Rodríguez, William Ortiz, Héctor Campos-Parsi, and Amaury Veray.

He founded the Camerata Filarmónica Orchestra (now Camerata Pops), with which he produces a diverse series of concerts, including film music, Broadway, video games, Anime, Pop, Rock, and Children concerts. His production The Orchestra: A Musical Safari received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and has been presented in several countries.