Efraín obtained his musical education in “El Sistema”, José Antonio Abreu’s musical project which enables hundreds of thousands of children to learn an instrument and play classical music in Venezuela. He began to play the flute aged 18 and at 20 was member of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Carabobo; at 23 was teacher at the Conservatorio de Música de Carabobo and at 25 principal flute of the Orquesta Municipal de Valencia (Venezuela), post he abandons to study with flute legend William Bennett at the Royal Academy of Music.