Composer, conductor, and researcher Acre was born in December 1964 in La Paz, Bolivia. He studied musical composition with Mariano Etkin and Gabriel Valverde and orchestral conducting with Guillermo Scarabino and Mario Benzecry at the Department of the Arts at La Plata University (UNLP) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2000, Acre founded the bachelor's degree in music at Loyola University of Bolivia in La Paz, where he served as the music department head and instructor. While at Loyola University, Acre spearheaded the development of a bachelor's of music degree in traditional orchestral instruments; established the Ensemble PRETA, which combines traditional Bolivian musical instruments with digital technologies; and the Loyola Sinfonietta. In addition, Acre has established various musical ensembles such as the Ensemble Contemporáneo TAKY, which exclusively plays contemporary Bolivian and Latin American classical music, and co-founded the Curucusí Ensemble with soprano Giovanna Montaño. During his extensive career, Acre has taught at the Major University of San Andrés, the El Alto Public University, and the Tomás Frías de Potosí University. Between 2012 and 2016, he was the Municipal de El Alto Symphony Orchestra at the Municipal School of Arts (EMDA) director. His more than 70 compositions are performed frequently inside and outside of Bolivia. In October 2016, he received the "Orlando Alandia Pantoja National Composition Award." In 2017, the Venezuelan Symphony Orchestra premiered Gritos de Cóndor (Cries of a Condor), an honorable mention from the same contest from 2012. In 2017, Acre released his sell-out hit Los Avatares de la Música Contemporánea en Bolivia (The Avatars of Contemporary Music in Bolivia), which examines the history of contemporary Bolivian music in the last decade and its leading figures. The book's success has prompted Acre to begin writing a second edition.
