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| She began her music studies at the Universidad Michoacana, continuing them at the Escuela Superior de Música of the Conservatorio de las Rosas and at the Escuela Superior de Música del INBA (Mexico City). During 1994-1995 she made special studies at the Eastman School of Music in New York, USA. In 1997 she received a Talent Scholarship from Shenandoah University in Virginia, USA, where she received her Bachelor of Music in Performance in 1999 and Master of Music in Performance in 2000. Afterwards, she received her Master in Cello Pedagogy from Temple University in Philadelphia, USA.
During her stay in the USA she hold teaching positions of cello and chamber music at different institutions, including Piedmont School of Music, Shenandoah Conservatory Arts Academy, Berman School of Music, and Community Music Scholars Program of Temple University. She has taken courses and masterclasses of cello with Peter Wopke (Budapest Trio), Stephan Popov (London), Jennifer Ward Clark (London), James Wilson (USA), David Soyer (USA), Alvaro Bitrán (Cuarteto Latinoamericano), Anner Bylsma (Holland), Antonio Meneses (Brazil), and Wolfgang Boettcher (Germany), among others. She has been member of different ensembles, including the Mexico City Philharmonic (Mexico), Minería Symphony (Mexico), Maryland Symphony (USA), Roanoke Symphony (USA), and the chamber orchestras of Morelos and of the Universidad Michoacana, as well as Philadelphia Virtuosi (USA). She is a member of the Camerata de Michoacán and, with her bother and sister, of the Trío Morelia, chamber music groups with which she has performed in Germany, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Mexico, Spain, and the USA. She made a recording of Mexican Waltzes with the Trío Morelia sponsored by the Chamber of Comerce of Michoacán, as well as a CD entitled "Mexican Chamber Music" produced by the CNCA. During the years 1991-1992 she taught at the Academic Extension Department and at the Youth Symphony Orchestra of the Conservatorio de las Rosas. She also worked as teacher and perfomer at the Casa de la Cultura de Morelia between 1992-1994 and 1995-1996. Furthermore, she was professor of cello at the Escuela de Bellas Artes of the Universidad Michoacana during 1996-1997. She received a Special Prize at the Young Performers Competition of the Michoacan Symphony and also at the National Competition for Musicians organized by the Guanajuato Symphony in 1995 and 1996. She won First Prize of the Concurso de Ejecución y Canto sponsored by the INBA in 1995 and in 1998 she was finalist of the “Carlos Prieto” Cello Competition. In the USA she was a winner of the Bach-Handel Competition in Virginia (1997, 1998, 1999), at the 1998 Regional Competition organized by the MTNA (Music Teachers National Association) and of the Shenandoah University Concerto Competition (1998, 2000). Performances as soloist include those with the Shenandoah University Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta de Cámara de la Universidad Michoacana, and the symphony orchestras of Aguascalientes, Michoacán, and Yucatán. She has been a recipient of grants from several institutions including the Fulbright Foundation (1994), Fundación Telmex (1997), and the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (1999). Currently she is finishing her doctoral dissertation for the Sao Paulo University in Brazil and is Principal Cello of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Michoacán; also, she is Cello and Chamber Music Professor at the Universidad Michoacana and at the Conservatorio de las Rosas in Morelia (Mexico). |
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| Irene Adriana Carrasco Curíntzita.- Cello |
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