Profiles

Marcelo Villanueva is the director of the music department, art and worship of the International Baptist Theological Seminary in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

He was born in the city of La Plata. In 2000 he obtained a tertiary degree as "Instrumentalist in Popular Music (Instrument: Guitar; Specialty: Jazz)" at the Avellaneda School of Popular Music. He graduated as professor in "Harmony, Counterpoint and Musical Morphology" from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the National University of La Plata. In 2015 he finished the postgraduate degree in "Master in Interpretation of Latin American Music of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries" at the Faculty of Arts and Design of the National University of Cuyo.

He congregates in the First Baptist Church of La Plata. He is married to Ileana, and they have three children: Lucas, Sara and Malena.