Julio Alvarado Tricoche[note 1] (1886–1970) was a Puerto Rican flutist, composer, and director of the Banda Municipal de Ponce for seventeen years.
[3] As a young man he worked as a blacksmith and a tobacco salesperson before he dedicated the rest of his life to music.
[3] In 1912, Domingo Cruz "Cocolía", then director of the Ponce Municipal Band contracted Julio Alvarado as flutist and conductor.
[2] Alvarado Tricoche initiated his work as a composer in 1914, creating danzas, valses, pasodobles, pasillos, boleros and plenas.
Under his direction, the Band achieved much recognition and received many accolades, both in Puerto Rico as well as internationally.