Bettsimar Díaz and Luis Julio Toro at the CAF auditorium

(Caracas, April 14, 2008).- The Andean Development Corporation invites the public to the poetry and music recital The Verses of Adam which Eve kept. The event will take place this Thursday April 17 at 7 pm in the Antonio José de Sucre Auditorium, Torre CAF, Avenida Luis Roche, Altamira, Caracas.

Bettsimar Díaz is a poet, musician and artistic producer. He published his first work Patio Interior in 1998, with the sponsorship of CAF and the publisher Monte Ávila Editores Latinoamericana in the series Formas de Fuego. In 2006 his second book of poetry The verses of Adam which Eve kept was published by Rayuela Taller de Ediciones with a prologue by Venezuelan novelist Adriano González León. He has worked in radio since 2002 in his program La Vuelta al Mundo on 100.7 FM, and currently presents the television program Entreversos for Canal-I.

Venezuelan flutist Luis Julio Toro has published many recordings as soloist and with the Gurrufío Ensemble, of which he is founding member, and has been intensively involved in performing traditional Venezuelan music. Trained at the London Royal College of Music, he received the Best Flutist of the Year award and the Eve Kish prize. He was selected by the British Flute Society to participate in master classes with James Galway. He has also studied Hindu classical flute in the Bahvan Institute of Indian Arts and baroque traverse flute in Paris.

The CAF concert is part of the cultural activities organized by the Social Responsibility Program of the CAF External Relations Office, which promotes and disseminates the works of composers from the region.