Mauricio Venegas-Astorga is a Chilean artist who, with passion, talent, creativity and hard work has achieved the position of being one of the most important artists of Latin American origin in the field of music production, composition, education and cultural activity in the UK. His work as a performer, composer and recording artist has been channeled through the group Quimantu, which he founded almost forty years ago. With a collection of more than 35 albums that he has created and recorded for diverse projects and companies, Mauricio has also performed and recorded as a guest and session musician for composers such as Sir Paul McCartney, Ennio Morricone, Dave Arnold and Hans Zimmer. His film credits include the Honorary Consul, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Mission and James Bond films, and his own compositions can be heard on TV programmes such as Law and Order, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Coronation Street, Midsomer Murders etc, enabling him to acquire a deep knowledge and expertise in the fields of composition and production music. His extensive collaborations with composers and musicians from the UK and of other nationalities have included English musicians such as Roger Watson, Richard Harvey and Steve Knightley, from Africa Musa Mboob and Oluyemisi Obasaju, from Australia the renowned guitarist John Williams, from Serbia Ratsko Rašić, from Chile Jorge Campos, from Cuba el Septeto Nacional, Ignacio Piñeiro and Efraín Ríos, from Uruguay Pájaro Canzani, and from India Kiranpal Singh Deoora. His compositions ‘Misa De Los Mineros’ and ‘Socavón Cantata Del Carbón’ are homages to the people of the coal mining region of the south of Chile and are a beautiful and clear demonstration of his creative voice and style, and of his human commitment to education, history, culture and to the communities of his country and place of birth as well as to the wider world.