Recent commitments have included performances and tour with his brother Isaac’s project, Ensemblast. Dr. Casal is also enthusiastic about collaborating with modern composers having premiered pieces by Carlos Bernales, Dinos Constantinides, Alexandra Dubois, Jorge Figueroa, Mikolja Gorecki, Howard Lew, Ricardo Risco, Bartosz Smoragiewicz, David Soley, Katia Tiutiunnik, and Norberto Ulloa.
Dr. Casal has also done some composing. His composition “8 Etudes for Violin” was Commissioned on 2021 by The Juilliard School for Juilliard’s Music Advancement Program.
He has recorded for the labels Earth CD Partners and Multicultura Media’s Rootstock Recording.
Dr. Luis Enrique Casal R.
The Panama News cites: “Panama does have a worthy classical scene, and right at the top of it we find Luis Enrique Casal.” A concert artist in both the violin and the viola, Luis Casal was awarded “Remarkable Citizens of Panama 2015" by Panama’s National Commission Pro Civic Values and Morals. Dr. Casal is vice president of the Sinfonía Concertante Foundation of Panama, an honorary academic adviser to the Alfredo Saint Malo Music Festival, and violin/viola instructor at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, Lucy Moses School at the Kaufman Music Center, and the Washington Heights Community Conservatory of Fine Arts. He has performed and/or given master classes in Argentina, the Bahamas, England, France, Japan, Italy, Romania, Spain, the United States, and Uruguay.
An experienced orchestra player, Dr. Casal has held the position of Principal Violist ad honorem of the National Symphony of Panama, Principal Violist of the Laredo Philharmonic Orchestra, Concertmaster of the Butler Symphony Orchestra in Butler, Pennsylvania, and guest concertmaster of the Altoona Symphony Orchestra. He is co-founder and member of the Camerata Alfredo De Saint Malo, and currently performs as concertmaster of the ADCA Symphony Orchestra, concertmaster of the BCCO (Brooklyn Conservatory Community Orchestra), principal violist of the Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra, and violinist of the piano quartet Ensemblast Project.
