Born in Copiapó, he began his musical studies at the age of 11 at the Escuela de Difusión Artística de Copiapó, entering the then nascent violin workshop early, promoted by teachers Jorge Peña Hen and Hugo Garrido Gaete, forerunners of the musical education movement in Chili.

Later, he moved to La Serena entering the Jorge Peña Hen Experimental School of Music, defining a profile that would lead him to the career of Musical Interpretation with a mention in Violin, a training that he attends at the University of Chile as a student of the teacher Jaime de the Jara.

Parallel to his training, Reynaldo Ferrera obtained a place as head of the Santiago Philharmonic Orchestra, an institution of which he was part between the years 1980 and 1990. It is precisely in this last year that his career takes a turn, settling in the IV Region to join as Professor of the Chair of Violin of the Department of Music of the University of La Serena, house of studies in which he exercises a role until today.

The artistic concerns developed throughout his career have led him along various paths, standing out in the fields of interpretation, chamber music, and the formation and direction of children's and youth groups. In 1999 he began an intense process of training as a luthier, first under the guidance of maestro Humberto Águila, in Concepción, later arriving to perfect himself in Brussels, Belgium, thanks to a grant from the NGO Luthiers Sans Frontières and the Orchestras Foundation Juveniles e Infantiles de Chile, specializing in archery and repair and maintenance of stringed instruments.

Since then to date, Professor Ferrera has promoted multiple training projects, highlighting the delivery of a series of repair courses for stringed instruments, woods and bronzes in different northern regions, each of which has had the support of the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage, the most important of which is the initiative entitled "Repair and Maintenance of String Instruments in the North: a necessary consequence of the movement of youth and children's orchestras in Chile", benefiting dozens of teachers during 2009 and 2010.

Currently, Reynaldo Ferrera distributes his time between the Violin Chair at the University of La Serena and daily classes to the students of the Jorge Peña Hen Experimental School of Music, in addition to directing the Luthería Workshop and the Ensemble and Ensemble Workshop of the Department of Music, advising in parallel to multiple orchestras and artistic schools in relation to the repair and maintenance of their musical instruments.

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