VI Edition´s Resident Orchestra
As a symbol of tolerance, peace and international understanding between the peoples the USHUAIA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA is the best “ambassador” for the 200th anniversary of Argentine´s independence.
This symphonic organism – under the leadership of Maestro Jorge Uliarte – will show once more an overwhelming quality of sound and fully resonance.
60 musicians of the best orchestras from Prague and 10 members of different South American countries will be the members of the USHUAIA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA.
Some of the musicians from Prague already played at the movie soundtrack for “Amadeus” and other famous proyects. This is a real symbiosis of world class musicians.

Orchestra Conductor - Berliner Symphoniker and Artistic Director of the "Festival Internacional de Ushuaia"
During the season 2007-2008 Jorge Uliarte was working intensely as conductor of the Berliner Symphoniker and at the same time was conducting the Moscow Symphony Orchestra.
With both ensembles he has realized a long tour through Europe and South America in concert halls like: Berliner Philharmonie, Teatro Coliseo-Buenos Aires, Teatro el Circulo-Rosario, international Film-Festival of Mar del Plata, Teatro Argentino de la Plata, etc. Overwhelming Open Air-Concerts for 40.000 spectators were the hightlights with the Berlin Symphonic Orchestra in April 2007 and November 2008 at the “Obelisc” historial monument of the City of Buenos Aires.
Jorge Uliarte has realized an international career giving concerts in prestigious concert halls like: Teatro Colón-Buenos Aires, Auditorio de Santa Cecilia-Rome, Concertgebow-Amsterdam, Philarmonia Narodova-Warshaw, Federal Hall-New York, Legion of Honour Theatre-San Francisco/California, Tivoli Concert Hall Copenhagen, Mozarteum Salzburg, Bösendorfer Saal / Vienna, Rathaus-Vienna, etc.
He worked with several orchestras, like: Mozarteum Orchester/Salzburg, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Argentina, San Francisco Chamber Orchestra/California, Vienna Sinfonietta-Austria, Dvorak Symphony Orchestra-Prague, Europa Symphony Orchestra-Vienna, United Philharmonic-Vienna, Orquesta Sinfónica de Córdoba-Argentina, Orquesta Sinfónica de Salta-Argentina, Bucharest Philharmonic-Rumania, Orchestra du Chambre de Lausanne - Switzerland , KVZ Orchester-Zürich, Berliner Symphoniker and others.
He was frequently invited to festivals such as: Taormina , Sorrento , Spoleto, Salzburg , Amsterdam , Rome , Brussels , Skoevde ( Sweden ), Festival Cervantino- Mexico , etc.
His records were broadcasted in several radio and television stations in Europe and America such as: ORF-Radio and Television from Austria , Bayerischer Rundfunk-Munich/Germany, Radio Suisse Romande-Switzerland, RAI – Radio and television Rome/Italy, Film & Arts TV-Channel, ARTE TV-Channel, and many others.

Orchestra Conductor
Being a child, he begins his music studies with the guitar Masters Prof. Victor Roman and Estela Gonzalez.
Strongly attracted by the Opera Gender, he studied lyrics singing with Master Ricardo Yost.
His academic formation continued in the UCA (Catholic University of Argentina) taking the courses for Orchestral Direction and Composition, apart of the High Professorate, in both specialties. He studied there with Masters like G. Scarabino, G. Opitz, M. Lambertini and J. Viera.
Once he graduates, continues taking classes to master in Orchestral Direction with Master Pedro I. Calderón.
In the year 2001, with the support of the Music University of the UCA, founds the Camerata Exaudi, an ensemble integrated by 85 members, being general director of the organism since its creation.
As a Director, he has had a repertoire that goes from instrumental music to chamber vocal, symphonic genders, choir-symphonies, capella choir, opera and soloist concerts, directing very important national musicians in prestigious opera theatres.
He conducts the Choir of the Camerata Exaudi since 2003, integrated by 40 mixed voices, facing masterpieces of a diverse repertoire.
He has also directed many national and international choir ensembles, among them: Cantoria Lugano (Argentina), Choir of the UCA, Choir of the UCA Salta (Argentina), Schola Cantorum Coralina (Cuba), Choir Quadrivium of Valencia (Venezuela), the Symphonic Orchestra Choir of Lara (Venezuela), Virgo Female Vilnius Choir (Lithuania).
In the year 2003 and 2005 was called to close the Iº and IIº International Choral Festival, playing the Magnificat BWV 243 of J.S. Bach and the Requiem of Mozart with great international casts. By the end of 2003 and 2007 he was selected to conduct the musical direction of “Così fan tutte” of W.A. Mozart, and Let’s Make an opera of B. Britten in the Margartia Xirgù Theatre, with a prestigious soloist cast.
In 2004 and 2005 he wins the Fundacion Antorchas Competition, getting a scholarship to profound his studies as an Orchestra Director. He was selected by Master Charles Dutoit as an active student of the master classes given together with the Academic Orchestra of the Teatro Colon of Buenos Aires in 2005, year in which he also wins the National Competition of Banco Rio who awards him and distinguishes him like the “Young Entrepreneur” and in July 2006, he obtains a mention at the national competition organized by Clarin newspaper and Ciudad Bank of Buenos Aires, who considers him as one of the most outstanding twelve youngest entrepreneurs of the country.

Tenor
Dario Volonté was born 1963 in Buenos Aires.
His musical vocation began late after having discovered his facility for imitating the tenor voice at the age of 17, when he watched Plácido Domingo in Otello on television from Teatro Colón.
At the age of 18 he was sent to the Malvinas War to serve duty on the ill-fated warship General Belgrade, which was sinked by the British and of which Volonté was among the few survivors.
Upon his return he joined a local church choir and met the baritone José Crea who tutored him for free. A big break came in 1994 when he auditioned for the Teatro Avenida of Buenos Aires and was cast as a tenor in a Zarzuela.
Subsequent performances helped to launch a break in Europe; in Italy he joined a touring opera group from Bulgaria and sang in Ballo in Maschera and Il Trovatore in Belgium and Holland. Meanwhile, he was audtioned by several European theatres, and the Wexford Festival of Ireland contracted him for Riccardo Zandonai's "I Cavalieri di Ekebu" in 1998, which he performed to considerable public and critical acclaim.
In May of 1999 he was Mariano in Hector Panizza's and Luigi Illica's "Aurora." November 1999 he stepped in as Edgardo in Lucia de Lammermoor and realized many operas in South America and Europe.

Soprano
Tania di Giorgio was born in Rome. She studied singing and classical guitar at the music conservatory „Santa Cecilia of Rome“.
She gave a lot of concerts in Italy and abroad, for example for the European Comunity in Torino, Ascoli Piceno, Rieti and recitals of Lied in churches and theaters of Rome, in cooperation with the music association „Musica a Roma“.
She gave further concerts at the „Civita Festival“ where she sang the 4th symphony of Gustav Mahler.
In foreign countries she works with the france music society „Max Packard“, with whom she went already on tour to Russia with the orchestra of „Roma Barocca“.
In 2007 she participated at the music festival „Severino Gazzelloni“ with a repertoire of the 8th and 9th century.
At the same year she gave a concert in the Vatican state, where she sang works of gregorian composers. El „Lumen Gentium“ was transmitted by the Vatican-Radio.
In 2008 she gave her debut as „Violetta“ in „La Traviata“ in Rome.
Tania Di Giorgio also works with the RAI-Symphony Orchestra in Torino.
Her repertoire includes compositions by Bach, Vivaldi, Haendel, Pergolesi, Paisiello, Scarlatti, Mozart, Rossini, Bellini,Donizetti, Verdi, Leoncavallo, Puccini, Perosi, Refice, Gershwin y Bernstein.

Mezzosoprano
Was born in 1978 in Spoleto/Italy. She graduated as opera singer and has a doctorate in musicology, specialized in baroque music. Here masters were: Susanna Rigacci, Elena Cecchi Fedi, Andrea Marcon, Marinella Pennicchi, Silvana Bazzoni Bartoli, Gloria Banditelli.
Since 2004 she focuses on antique music with chamber music variations and contemporary compositions.
She gave a lot of concerts in Italy, France, Germany, Sweden and at several festivals, as followed: Festival delle Nazioni (Città di Castello), Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte di Montepulciano, OperainCanto (Terni), Segni Barocchi (Foligno), Festival Transeuropeen (Rouen-France), Emilia Romagna Festival, Festival Pianistico di Spoleto, Hoors Sommaopera (Sweden), TLR Classica (Macerata), Festival dei Due Mondi di Spoleto, Festival Villa Solomei (Perugia), Menuhin Festival-Gstaad (Switzerland).
In 2007 she sang in different roles in Rome, like: Mozart, Le Nozze di Figaro (Cherubino), Requiem, Vesperae Solemnes de Confessore, Vesperae Solennes de Dominica, Missa brevis KV 140, Missa Brevis KV 275 and “Kroenungmesse” from Mozart; Stabat Mater-Pergolesi, Magnificat and Gloria of Vivaldi, Messiah - Orlando (Medoro) from G. F. Haendel; the “Missa in Tempore Belli” from F. J. Haydn; the Oster Oratorium and the Johannes-Passion from J. S. Bach, Dido and Enes from Purcell, Der Jasager (Madre) from K. Weill, Oratorio - Noël C. Saint Saens, etc.
She worked with well known directors and musicians, like:. Jan Joost van Elburg, Pasquale Veleno, Fabio Ciofini, Brian Schembri, Viggo Eden, Luis Bacalov. Many of her concerts has been transmitted via „Radio Vaticano“. CRISTINA PALLUCCHI is member of the “Academia Barroca Wilhelm Hermans”.

Tenor
Paolo Macedonio has realized already an international career.
He studied and specialized in “Canto” with the Masters Italo D’Amico, Lajos Kozma, William Mc Kinney, Lydia Marimpietri, Renzo Scorsoni, Giovanna Di Rocco, Ettore Nova, Lorenzo Castriota Skanderbeg and in acting with Masters Virginio Puecher, George Albertazzi, Vera Bertinetti.
He was winner of numerous competitions, such as: "Amici di Castel S. Angelo" in Rome in 1984; the "International Competition "Città di Stresa" in 1985; the National Competition of Chamber music "Città di Caltanissetta" in 1985.
He specialized in Chamber Music with Masters Piernarciso Masi and Riccardo Brengola and performed several concerts in different countries, such as: Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Egypt, Canada, USA, France, Germany, Japan.
Specialized in baroque repertoire he has collaborated for many years with the “Gruppo Recitar Cantando”directed by the M° Fausto Razzi.
He has held concerts and participated as protagonist in exhibition of works for important festivals for italian and foreign music associations, such as: Haendel MusikFestSpiele (Halle 1989 - Dresden 1992); Società "Barattelli" L'Aquila 1989 - Sagra Musicale Umbra 1990; National Academy of Modern Art of Rome 1989-1991; Accademia Filarmonica and Musical Association "V. Bellini" of Messina 1990; OperaIncanto Stagioni 1992, 95,96, 97, 98, 99; Spazio Musica Cagliari 1991; Estate Fiesolana 1990; Natale in Lazio 1995; Incontri Musicali Narnesi 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001; RAI 1990, 1992, 1998, 1999; Rete 4 Mediaset 1999; Season of the Opera Theatre of Cairo (Egypt) 1997. Operistic Season of the Theatre "Manzoni" - Rome 1999; Opera Theatre of Nizza 2000.
He debuted in main and secondary roles in numerous lyric exhibitions with important lyric companies.
He was Art-Director from 1996 to 2000 of the Concert Season "Incontri Musicali Narnesi" and vice president of this association and collaborated for various seasons with the Lyric Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto: As well he recorded CD´s of inedited works of G. Donizetti, P. Generali, G. Rossini, Fausto Razzi and Marcello Panni.
Paolo Macedonio has achieved also the Diploma in classical guitar with maximum grade and honour. Paolo Macedonio has realized already an international career.
He studied and specialized in “Canto” with the Masters Italo D’Amico, Lajos Kozma, William Mc Kinney, Lydia Marimpietri, Renzo Scorsoni, Giovanna Di Rocco, Ettore Nova, Lorenzo Castriota Skanderbeg and in acting with Masters Virginio Puecher, George Albertazzi, Vera Bertinetti.
He was winner of numerous competitions, such as: "Amici di Castel S. Angelo" in Rome in 1984; the "International Competition "Città di Stresa" in 1985; the National Competition of Chamber music "Città di Caltanissetta" in 1985.
He specialized in Chamber Music with Masters Piernarciso Masi and Riccardo Brengola and performed several concerts in different countries, such as: Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Egypt, Canada, USA, France, Germany, Japan. Specialized in baroque repertoire he has collaborated for many years with the “Gruppo Recitar Cantando”directed by the M° Fausto Razzi.
He has held concerts and participated as protagonist in exhibition of works for important festivals for italian and foreign music associations, such as: Haendel MusikFestSpiele (Halle 1989 - Dresden 1992); Società "Barattelli" L'Aquila 1989 - Sagra Musicale Umbra 1990; National Academy of Modern Art of Rome 1989-1991; Accademia Filarmonica and Musical Association "V. Bellini" of Messina 1990; OperaIncanto Stagioni 1992, 95,96, 97, 98, 99; Spazio Musica Cagliari 1991; Estate Fiesolana 1990; Natale in Lazio 1995; Incontri Musicali Narnesi 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001; RAI 1990, 1992, 1998, 1999; Rete 4 Mediaset 1999; Season of the Opera Theatre of Cairo (Egypt) 1997. Operistic Season of the Theatre "Manzoni" - Rome 1999; Opera Theatre of Nizza 2000.
He debuted in main and secondary roles in numerous lyric exhibitions with important lyric companies. He was Art-Director from 1996 to 2000 of the Concert Season "Incontri Musicali Narnesi" and vice president of this association and collaborated for various seasons with the Lyric Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto: As well he recorded CD´s of inedited works of G. Donizetti, P. Generali, G. Rossini, Fausto Razzi and Marcello Panni. Paolo Macedonio has achieved also the Diploma in classical guitar with maximum grade and honour.

Barítone
In April 2001, he entered at the “A. Toscanini” Foundation in Parma.
There he realized intense studies with teachers such as Renato Bruson, Leo Nucci, Virginia Zeani, Alain Billard and Beppe De Tomasi.
In April 2003 he achieved the 1st prize of the 4th edition of the International Competition for opera singers "City of Neptune" (Rome).
He played already following roles: Uberto in G.B. Pergolesi’s “La serva padrona”; Don Cassandro in W.A. Mozart’s “La finta semplice”, Conte d’Almaviva, Figaro and Bartolo in W.A. Mozart’s “Le nozze di Figaro”, Don Giovanni, Leporello, Masetto and Commendatore in W.A. Mozart’s “Don Giovanni”, Guglielmo in W.A. Mozart’s “Così fan tutte”, Conte Robinson in D. Cimarosa’s “Il matrimonio segreto”, Figaro in G. Rossini’s “Il barbiere di Siviglia”, Haly in G. Rossini’s “L’italiana in Algeri”; Dulcamara and Belcore in G. Donizetti’s “Elisir d’amore”; Nabucco in G. Verdi’s “Nabucco”, Rigoletto in G. Verdi’s “Rigoletto”, Germont in G. Verdi’s “La traviata”; Escamillo in G. Bizet’s “Carmen”, Marcello in G. Puccini’s “La bohéme”, Sharpless in G. Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly”, Alfio in P. Mascagni’s “Cavalleria rusticana”.
He is keen of traditional Italian and Neapolitan songs and he is particularly dedicated to the music of Francesco Paolo Tosti.
Giulio Boschetti has realized already many tours in Italy and abroad.
He collaborated with the Musical Chapel of St. Francis Basilica in Assisi, with which he worked as a soloist in the 2000 Jubilee of Artists in the Basilica of St. Peters at the Vatican, with the presence of Pope Giovanni Paolo II.
While in the same Musical Chapel he recorded CDs interpreting pieces from the seventeenth and eighteenth century’s repertoire of the Masters of the Chapel of the Sacred Convent of Assisi.
He is also collaborating with the combination "Cantori di Assisi" and "Foundation Domenico Bartolucci".

Conductor
Pianist and conductor. His artistic career includes festivals and concerts, especially in Italy (Rome, Bologna, Perugia, Spoleto, Terni, Firenze, Cosenza, Pescara, L’Aquila), Poland (“Ignacy Paderewsky” Institute – Bialystock), Argentina (Buenos Aires, Tucumán).
He has an intense activity as choral conductor (“Choir and Orchestra of the Peace” – Terni, “Musica Reservata” vocal group – Roma, Choir of Norcia) performing a polyphonic and choral – symphonic repertoire.
Collaborating with prestigious conductors and singers (Carlo Frajese, Marco Gatti, Massimo Gualtieri, Leonardo Quadrini, Gustavo Guersman, Katia Ricciarelli, Cecilia Gasdia, Gianluca Terranova) he has realized masterpieces as Verdi’s Requiem, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Rossini’s Stabat Mater, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Mozart’s Requiem. He also performed as pianist with a wide repertoire for piano and orchestra.
He is the founder of a vocal – instrumental group, the “Teatro Armonico” (2005), and he’s active as its conductor with performances mainly from the repertory of italian Renaissance and Early Baroque.
His specialization upon early music has moved him into extensive studies on the vocal repertoire, with a particular focus on the period between 15 th and 17 th century.
Thanks to his research through inedited materials, he has realized the only modern critical edition of Giovanni Francesco Anerio’s “Teatro Armonico Spirituale”, Roma 1619.
The work, consisting 94 Madrigals for 5, 6, 7, 8 voices and Continuo, is the forerunner of a genre of the roman baroque: the “Oratorio”.
This researching activity has led him to collaborate with the roman publisher OCD, coordinating a musical project aimed at rediscovering the musical sacred repertoire of religious orders (2008).
In 2008 “Hermosura” International Composition Competition has chosen him to be its artistic director.
His academic studies include humanities, the piano graduation at “F. Morlacchi” State Conservatory of Perugia, Composition, Choral Conducting, Lyrical and liederistic repertory with Weenand van de Pol, Massimo Gualtieri, Lajos Kozma. From 1984 to 1988 he has improved with Jorge Uliarte in Italy and in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Pianist
Goran Filipec, one of the most distinguished Croatian pianists of the younger generation, was born in 1981 in Rijeka, where he obtained primary and secondary musical education at the School of music “Ivan Matetiæ Ronjgov”.
He studied piano (class of Marina Ambokadze) and musicology at the Music academy “Ino Mirkovich” in Lovran (1997 – 2001), and later he specialized his skills at the Hochschule für Musik Köln in the class of Arbo Valdma (2003-2004), Schola Cantorum in Paris in the class of Eugen Indjic (2003 – 2006) and Music academy of Zagreb in the class of Evgeny Zarafiants (2006 – 2007).
He is constantly specializing in piano master classes of Oxana Yablonskaya and Elisso Virsaladze. Goran Filipec is threefold winner of the Croatian national piano contest (1995, 1997, 1999), and winner of other awards, of which may be mentioned: 1st prize at the contest "Istria Nobilissima" (1997, 1999, 2002), 1st prize at the 3rd Lions Grand Prix in 1997, and 1st prize at the 1. Rijeka Music Contest in 1998.
He performed with Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Rijeka Opera Symphony Orchestra and Croatian Chamber Orchestra with conductors like Jorge Uliarte, Vjekoslav Šutej, Pavle Dešpalj, Leonid Nikolaev and others.
His concerts where often recorded and broadcasted by the Croatian National Television and Radio and the Radio Suisse Romande.
Goran Filipec performed in many renown concert halls like the the Carnegie Hall in New York, Grande Salle du Conservatoire de Musique Geneve, Salle Frank Martin, Palais de Beaux Arts – Salle des Abeilles, Salle Cortot in Paris, National Concert Hall in Dublin, Large Concert hall of the Muziekcentrum Vredenburg in Utrecht, «Vatroslav Lisinski» Concert Hall in Zagreb, Croatian national theatres in Rijeka and Split, to mention a few.

Pianist
Austrian pianist, born in Burgas, Bulgaria, who fulfilled her studies in her birth country.
Along her career, she has had an intense activity as a performer in the lyric field with singing celebrities like: Placido Domingo, Ferrucio Furlanetto, Edita Gruberova, Rolando Villazon, Ana Netrebko, Carlos Alvarez, Renée Fleming, among others.
Contributes closely with directors like Claudio Abbado, Zubin Metha, Valery Gergiev, Lorin Maazel.
She has presented herself at lyric performances in settings like the “Vienna State Opera”, “Spring Musical Festival” in Prague, the Theatre “Mabrinski” of Saint Petersburg and others.
She has offered courses of perfection in her gender around many cities of Europe like in Bari /Italy, Sophia/ Bulgaria, Salzburg/ Austria, Munich/ Germany, Vienna/ Austria.
Katia Borrisova is a Master instructor of the Lyrics Department at the MOZARTEUM University of Salzburg. At the same time, participates actively, elaborating operas for the Salzburg Festival.

Violinist
He was born in the city of Bahia Blanca, the 16th of September, 1990.
His Masters have been Serge Lazarev and Fernando Hasaj. Actually, he studies with the Master Rafael Gintoli.
In September 2002 he makes his début in the Municipal Theatre with the Concert in D-major Op.61 of Beethoven together with the Bahia Blanca Symphonic.
In 2003 he played lived on ATC Channel the Prelude of the Partita in E Major of J.S. Bach, and Mozart’s Concert Nº 5 at main room of the Colon Theatre.
He also performed at the main room of the Colon Theatre in the year 2004, J.S. Bach’s Partita Nº 2 in D-minor for violin.
The daily newspaper La Nacion, qualified his performance as “excellent”. He presented himself as soloist in most of all the Symphonic Orchestras of the country, performing great concerts for violin with the directors J. Ulla, Gustavo Plis Sterenberg, David Hendel, Carlos Vieu, Eugene Sirotkine (Russia), Pablo Boggiano, Carlos Calleja, Gustavo Guersman, Reynaldo Zemba, Luis Bozzani, Armando Sanchez Malaga, Pablo Herrero, Roberto Fabbroni and Javier Logioia Orbe.
At the Great Rex Theatre he performed the Concert of Beethoven in a cycle of the Mozarteum noon. The newspaper La Nacion entitled the review as “Brilliant performance of Xavier Inchausti”.
He was nominated as “Classical Music Revelation” of the “Clarin Awards 2004” and received the scholarship “Jeanete Arata de Erize” 2004 at the Argentine Mozarteum, Fundacion Antorchas, Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Municipalidad Bahia Blanca and Cultural Institute of Buenos Aires.
He was invited as a soloist to participate at the National Symphony with the Master Pedro Ignacio Calderon and the Cuyo University Symphonic.
He has been an active student of the Salzburg’s Mozarteum and entered to the Vienna University with the professor Michael Frieschenschlager.
He performed in Vienna as a soloist together with the Musikverein Pressbaum Orchester, Mendelsohn’s Concert and was an invited soloist at the Sarajevo Philarmonic, playing Tchaicosvsky’s concert under the direction of Pablo Boggiano in the overture of the Bosnia International Festival, obtaining excellent reviews in both presentations.
He has also opened the 2006 seasons of the symphonic orchestras of Bahia Blanca, Parana and Santa Fe playing Tchaicovsky’s concert.
With Brahms concert he opens the 2nd and 3rd of March, 2007, the symphonic seasons of Bahia Blanca under the direction of Gustavo Plis Sterenberg, the same with the Santa Fe Symphonic directed by Reinaldo Zemba and with the Rosario Symphonic directed by Javier Logioia Orbe.
He played Brahms with the Neuquen Symphonic directed by Master Andres Tolcachir for the cycle “Armonicus”. Performed the integral whims of Paganini live in Parana, invited specially by the Mariano Moreno Association with comments of Master Juan Carlos Cavallaro.
Performed as a soloist together with the Rosario Chamber Orchestra, Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and masterpieces of Wieniawski, Kreisler, Paganini and Sarasate under the direction of Roberto Fabbroni.
With the concert Nº 1 of Paganini he presented together with the Academy of the Colon Theatre, the Mendoza Philarmonic, the Entre Rios Symphonic and San Juan’s too.
He will be performing with the Bahia Blanca Symphonic Orchestra on July the concert Nº 1 of D. Shostackovich and in the Mozarteum noon.
He received the scholarship of “Mastercourse of Keshet Eilon” in Israel and was invited by Shlomo Mintz, with who he took classes along the course together with Haim Taub and Sihat Askin.
He has also offered three concerts for professors, students and a great audience with the famous violinist Ida Handel. When he returns, performs a concert with the integral whims of Paganini at the Temple “Amijai”.
The newspaper La Nacion entitle the review “Inchausti, exaltation of the violin art” and qualified it as “excellent”, concert that he also performed at the Music Conservatory Gilardo Gilardi of La Plata.
At the Great Rex Theatre, he played as a soloist Tchaicovsky’s concert under the directions of Master Benzecry in the cycle of the Mozarteum Noon.
Together with the Academic Camerata of the Argentine Theatre, he performed a concert as a soloist in all his pieces.
Among his future performances, there will be a Tchaycovsky’s concert in Buenos Aires. A violin and piano show with Cristina Filoso in the Argentine Theatre of La Plata, the concert Nº 1 of Shostackovich in Europe, Paganini’s Nº 1 in Asia and the integral sonata of Esaye.

Pianist
Valentín Surif, a native of Buenos Aires, Argentina,has had a distinguished career.
After initial studies with Chilean pianist Tino Rossetti , a disciple of Rosita Renard,he worked with Alicia de Larrocha , Carlo Zecchi , and Sergio Lorenzi in Italy, and also with Earl Wild and Byron Janis in the USA.
Mr Surif performed at numerous concert halls ,around the world, both as recitalist and soloist with well known orchestras, including the famous Teatro Colón of Argentina.
SADAIC( Argentine Association of Composers ) selected him as the best classical pianist of Argentina in 1995.
Besides his concert career, Mr Surif is often invited to give lecture- recitals and Masterclasses on the music of Latin America. These have taken him to the Universities of San Francisco State, St. Thomas Moore (Houston), Kansas State, Northridge(LA),St. Petersburg (Fl), Trinity College(Washington),House of the Americas (NewYork),Pedagogic University (Bogotá) etc. He enjoys a busy international career, with engagements as a soloist and recitalist with festival appearances in all Latin America, as well as throughout the United States, England,Spain, France , Italy, Portugal and South Africa.
He commands a vast repertoire , and is well known for his renditions of works for the Liszt Association, as well as the Chopin Foundation and the Beethoven Festival in Buenos Aires .
Valentín Surif has gained wide recognition for his virtuosity as well as for his limitless resource of colour and nuance in Liszt Sonata in B Minor as well as in Ginastera¨s Sonatas Nº 1 and Nº 3.
His performance of Ginastera’s Concerto Nº 1 has been highly praised by his virtuosity and exquisite control of tonal and dynamic shading as well as his indescribable sensitivity.
He has been honoured repeatedly as one of Argentina´s greatest representatives of Argentine arts. Valentin Surif´s recording career includes a highly praised performance of the 19th and 20th century musical production of Argentine composers for NAXOS and IRCO labels.
Valentín Surif is regularly invited as adjudicator in national and international Piano Competitions like Ibla (Ragusa-Italy) Beethoven Society (London), Liszt Centre(Buenos Aires), First Ginastera Piano Competition ( Buenos Aires) International Encounters of Contemporary Music (Buenos Aires) etc.
He is the Artistic Director of the Musical Competition of the River Plate, and President of ALAPP(Latin American Association of Pianists and Pedagogues) , affiliated to EPTA (European Piano Teachers Association).

Orchestra
Sphera AntiQua is an instrumental ensemble whose main aim is the interpretation in music performance of the repertoire with historical criteria together with the recovering and diffusion of the Spanish musical legacy.
Founded by Javier Illán and Pablo Gutiérrez the quality and interest of its concerts is ensured by meditated programs and extensive research on musical sources and/in their context as well as the musical praxis reflected in instrumental techniques.
The musicians of Sphera AntiQva are mainly formed in Spain even though they keep on learning in prestigious centers in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, The Hague, Basle and Berlin. Most of its members are involved in a France-based European project directed by Philippe Herreweghe, specializing on the Classical and Romantic repertory with period instruments and using gut strings. Into the described environment its musicians have shared scene and worked together with renowned musicians such as Sigiswald Kuijken, Lucy Van Dael, Bruno Weil, Cynthia Roberts, Peter Hanson, Alessandro Moccia, Philippe Herreweghe, Robert Levine, Alexei Lubimov, Bernard Labadie, Graziella Contratto or Marc Minkowskii.
The repertoire of Sphera AntiQva’s concerts gather from Italian Boccherini’s up to American baroque works from the Jesuit missions in the Amazonas rain-forest. The premiere of several recent musicological pieces (recently recovered from the music archives of Moxos and Chiquitos in Bolivia) has been remarkably successful among programmers and critics in Spain (Navarra, Madrid, Toledo or Canary Islands).
Forthcoming commitments include performances in Austria (Musikverein in Wien), SouthAfrica, Russia, and Spain directed by Enrico Onofri, Mauro Rossi, Alessandro Moccia or Jean Philippe Vasseur. Their carried out researches and the performances around the exotic and attractive repertoire of the mission’s baroque attracted many European Festivals. Above them we mention the series of 6 concerts performed in the Festival Internacional de Canarias 2010 last January.
Sphera Antiqva has recently recorded in Toledo’s Cathedral a CD containing religious works (the Mass Pange Lingua/ Sacris Solemniis) of the 18th century composed by Jaume Casellas, Chapel Master in Toledo Cathedral, published by Columna Música. Unpublished music from the Jesuit Missions around the Amazonas is the subject of their forthcoming CD.

Pianist
Einar Steen-Nøkleberg is a leading Norwegian pianist, having made continuous international appearances and more than 50 recordings.
He studied with Nicolai Dirdal and Hans Leygraf.
Among other prizes and distinctions, some of the most important are the German Hochschulwettbewerb, the Norwegian Piano Competition in 1972, the Norwegian Critics' Prize for Best Performance in 1975 (for the interpretation in Grieg's Piano Concert at the Bergen Festival), the Norwegian Recording of the Year in 1976 for a recital of Norwegian Baroque Composers, the Lindeman Prize ("Performer of the Year") 1984, the Grieg Prize in 1985 (Bergen) and 1992 (Oslo).
He is a Knight of the St. Olav Order, appointed by the King of Norway for his activities for Norwegian music in general. From 1975 to 1981 Einar Steen-Nøkleberg was Professor of Piano at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Hannover, Germany, an appointment which made him Germany's youngest professor.
Einar Steen-Nøkleberg's international career has included repeated solo recitals in London, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Moscow, Mexico City, New York, Hamburg and Copenhagen. He toured the U.S.A. and the former Soviet Union several times.
Concerto appearances include the London Symphony Orchestra, the Warsaw Philharmonic, the Copenhagen Royal Chapel, the China Philharmonic, Beijing, the Yumiori Philharmonic Orchestra and the NHK in Tokyo and the Oslo and Bergen Philharmonic Orchestras in Norway.
His recording of the Grieg Concert with the London Symphony Orchestra was chosen by the BBC Saturday Review as the best version of this much-recorded concerto.
His recently released monumental recording of all Grieg's piano music, a 14 CD set, for Naxos Records is recieving international acclaim. He is currently publishing H. Kjerulf piano works (3 CD's) on Simax, and H. Saeverud piano works (5 CD's) on Naxos.

Guitar
Virginia Luque plays classical and flamenco music in a spanish romantic style, combining extraordinary technical virtuosity with beautiful tone and musicianship.
A native of Cadiz, Spain, Ms. Luque began playing the guitar when she was four, started formal training when she was six, and gave her first concert at the age of seven.
After hearing her play, the legendary spanish guitarist, Andres Segovia, invited Ms. Luque to study privately with him. She received her Master's degree in Spain and at Segovia's suggestion came to America where she also received a Master's degree at the Juilliard School in New York City. Ms. Luque has recently recorded Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez with the London Symphony Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios, has been awarded First Prize at several international competitions, including the "Manuel de Falla" International Competition for Classical Guitar in Granada, Spain, and has received the Lincoln Center Scholarship, among other awards.
Concerto performances have included the Concierto de Aranjuez with the New York Virtuosi Orchestra, the Riverside Symphony, the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, the Izmir Symphony Orchestra and Antalya Symphony Orchestra in Turkey, the North West Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, the Seoul Symphony Orchestra, and premiered her own concerto with the Alexandria Symphony. Recitals have included Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, the Metropolitan Opera House, the Frick Collection in New York City, and other concert halls throughout the United States. Ms. Luque has toured internationally in Germany, Spain, Turkey, and South Korea.
She was also invited by Christopher Parkening to do a special guest recital at the Christopher Parkening International Master Class at Montana State University.

Choirmaster: Pablo Dzodan
The choir of Tierra del Fuego, conducted by Maestro Pablo Dzodan, is working with enormous enthusiasm to prepare the Requiem of W.A. Mozart, and as well the peace of the italian baroque-composer Giovanni Francesco ANERIO (1567 Rome) which will be presented as a world premiere during the next Ushuaia-Festival. For this reason, Maestro Luca Garbini from Rome, who discovered this baroque master-peace will travel to the Festival, to conduct the choir and perform this fascinating baroque music.
Maestro Pablo Dzodan – an excellent young conductor and choirmaster of Buenos Aires is travelling frequently to Tierra del Fuego, to work with the choir-members and also the singers are meeting as well in appropriate groups to work for a wonderful performance during the Ushuaia-Music-Festival in April 2010.
The foundation of the CHOIR OF THE INTERNATIOINAL MUSIC FESTIVAL OF USHUAIA was the idea of the founders of the Festival – (Festspiele SRL: Hernán Román, Santiago Lanzillotta, Margareta Uliarte, Martin Meyer) – and his artistic director Jorge Uliarte. This unique choir will be part of the future Festivals in Ushuaia and will present further concerts, to enchant the audience with their wonderful voices.

Chamber Music Group
Founded in 2001. Its members are Pablo de León (violinist) and Concertino of the „Orquesta Sinfónica Municipal“ from Sao Paolo, Horacio Schaefer (violinist), leader of the violas of the „Orquesta Sinfónica from the State of Sao Paolo“, and the cellist Roberto Ring, who gave already more than 270 concerts, with artists from all over the world.
Like Régis Pasquier (France), Roy Shiloah (Israel), Ilya Gringolts (Russia), Hagai Shaham (Israel), Isabelle Van Keullen (Netherland) and Claudio Cruz, as well with the pianists Roglit Ishay (Israel), Emmanuel Strosser (France), Janis Vakarelis (Greece), Jean Louis Steuerman and Sonia Rubinsky.
The Trio also gave concerts of argentine music with the pianist Leonardo Marconi and popular music of Brazil with the pianist Nelson Ayres, the clarinetist Paulo Sergio Santos and the guitar-player and composer Mauricio Carrilho.
At the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009 the Trio also played many concerts in the TV-culture program, recorded in Sao Paolo. In 2009 a lot of performances were realized at the „Teatro Municipal“ of Sao Paolo,

Orchestra
Under the patronage of the Government of San Juan
Created in 2005 The “Camerata San Juan” was founded by experienced professional musicians and talented young students. Its first musical goal was to approach the stylistic repertoire of Baroque and Classical periods.
The orchestra has succesfully performed in the citie’s most important concert halls, such as the Concert Hall of the Auditorio and Complejo Cultural "Ing. Juan Victoria”.
Its participation in 2006 at the festival "Los Caminos del Vino " in Mendoza, was really praised by the public and the critics. Its repertoire has expanded to the Romantic period, accompaniment of soloists, and academic argentine music adressing in a new line of work. Since 2008 Mº Gustavo Plis Steremberg has been its principal conductor.
Currently, The group is composed by almost twenty musicians, selected among the best. Recently, the Camerata has received the help and support of the Government adding to its name “Orquesta de la Gobernacion”.
The Orchestra always works towards excellence for the dissemination of music in all areas of society, committed to the reality of the province, working intensely social, regularly bringing their music to educational institutions.In 2010 the "Camerata San Juan, Orquesta de la Gobernación", will perform several concerts, with an enchanting program, also including in his anual schedule, different projects and art activities to develop together with the city prestigious institutions such as; Mozarteum Argentino, San Juan, "Opera San Juan", " Fundacion Arte y Ciencia”.

Mezzo-soprano
She studied with Maestro Gabriel Bacquier at the „Conservatoire de Paris“ (CNSMDP).
After her diploma she won many international competitions such as: the „Bino Becchi“Prize of Barcelona, the first prize at the „Ercolani“-Competition of Naples, the „O´Porto“-Competition and the Johannesburg-Competition in Southafrica.
She sang in many theaters and opera houses, for example in Avignon, Bordeaux, Rouen, in different opera-roles like „The Walküre“, „Triptyque“ – „Puccini“, „Khovantchina“ – „Tosca“.
At Mozarts anniversary she sang the Requiem of W.A. Mozart in Nice (France), at the Sorbonne Theater and Heidelberg (Germany) the Requiem of Salieri, „Die Schöpfung“ from Haydn, the „Messias“ of „Händel“ in Lyon (France). „Stabat Mater“ from „Rossini“ in the opera house of Lima (Peru). Since 1999 Vera Cirkovic sings with the argentine tenor Dario Volonte.
They already gave concerts in the Teatro Colon-Buenos Aires and many other concert halls. Vera Cirkovic realized CD-productions such as „Die Walküre“ (Sieglinde) with the „Orquesta del Teatro Colon/Buenos Aires“, „Andre Chenier „(Magdalena), „Cavalleria Rusticana“ – (Santuzza), „I Pagliacci“ (Nedda) with Luis Lima and Sherril Milnes.

Composer
Born on 27 October 1978 in Linz. He started playing the electric guitar at age of 15 and is completely self-taught. He played among others with Manuel Ortega, Marcus Wall (Spring String Quartet) and about the band "Circled (<>) Cube", where he contributed as guitarist and composer, an excellent diploma project was written at the EDHEC in Lille.
Also he had a guitar solo performance with bestselling author Folke Tegetthoff, produced music for the enterprise "Landfrisch" and gained film music experience with Pellicula, a group of young filmmakers.
His orchestral work "March To The End Of The World" was performed by the "Moscow Symphony Orchestra" under the direction of maestro Jorge Uliarte at the "Festival Internacional De Ushuaia" in May 2009. In the context of this cooperation he was a cultural ambassador for the European capital of culture "Linz 2009". Helmut Kirisits works freelance as electric guitar instructor, composer and guitarist.
Currently he contributes at the oncoming "We Like It Hot"-tour as composer and studio musician.
For the "Festival Internacional De Ushuaia" he composed a new arrangement of "El Condor Pasa", that will be performed by the "Ushuaia Philharmonic Orchestra" at Saturday, 10th of April 2010, under the direction of Maestro Jorge Uliarte.

Román Pavon Estrada: 1st violin
David Muñoz Wong: 2nd violin
Gerardo Méndez Juárez: viola
Carlos Cantú Rodríguez: violoncelo

The first conservatory of America was founded in 1743 in Morelia – Mexico.
Under the name “Conservatorio de Las Rosas” this music high shool is one of the most important conservatories nowadays in Mexico.
The chamber music group “Cuyos Quartet” was founded in 2008 at this conservatory. Many successfull concerts followed in Mexico, as followed: “Teatro Angela Peralta de San Miguel de Allende”, “Catedral de Dolores Guanajuato”, in “Queretero” and Mexico City.
The chamber music group “Cuyos Quartet” received a lots of distinctions, as the best latinamerican chamber music group of the “Conservatorio de las Rosas 2009”, first prize at the “Festival de Musica de Camara de San Miguel de Allende”, “Festival de Morelia” with outstanding critics.
The members of the Cuyos Quartet are playing as well in symphonic orchestras, like “Orquesta del Conservatorio de las Rosas”, in the “Orquesta Sinfonica de Michoacan” and the “Camerata Juvenil de Michoacan”.