Caracas, 1975. Studied with maestro Andrés Briceño.He has participated in over 70 commercial albums asdrummer and/or percussionist and among them 5 resulted in Latin Grammy nominations. Musician, drummer, musical director and producer. He has a degree in social communication from the Universidad Central de Venezuela. He studied at Berklee College of Music from 2002 to 2004. He resides in Miami.
His solo artistic project has “SOLEDAD” as it’s first single
and the album “IRREPETIBLE” is to be released Fall
21 to Spring 22. Adolfo is the drummer of the Miami
Symphony Orchestra and percussion player for De La
Paz Ensemble where uses a hybrid set (where he
incorporates drumset and percussion timbres) , he is
part of RJO (Raices Jazz Orchestra led by Tony Succar
and Pablo Gil) recently released PBS special “ROOTS
of Latin Jazz”, and also serves as percussionist to the
Siudy Flamenco Dance Theater.
He is a Latin Percussion Artist, Yamaha artist and uses Istanbul
Mehmet Cymbals. In his career he has worked with
Jose Luis Rodriguez “El Puma”, Franco De Vita,
Aquiles Báez, Jordan Rudess (Dream Theater), Lena
Burke, Otmaro Ruiz, Simón Bolivar Symphony
Orchestra, Miami Symphony Orchestra, South Florida
Symphony, Leo Blanco, Antonio Canales, Farruquito,
Anita Loynaz, Rafael "El Pollo" Brito, Karina, Kiara,
Guillermo Carrasco and Frank Quintero, among others.