ELENA URIOSTE • A Violin by Alessandro Gagliano, Naples, 1706 • A Violin Bow by Pierre Simon
Photo:Tetsuro Takai |
"The Gagliano is so wonderful. It has a very different sound from what I used to play.
It’s darker and richer. It’s been an amazing experience. The Simon bow is absolutely amazing. It’s really great to be a Stradivari Society recipient. This is my second violin from Dr. King. I'm completely indebted to him. I can't believe people like that exist in the world. He’s so generous. I'm very grateful to him. Geoff and Suzanne [Fushi] have been great to work with and Joe Bein has been so nice. He took care of everything when I got the Gagliano.”
- Elena Urioste Selected by Symphony magazine as an emerging artist to watch, has been hailed by critics and audiences alike for her rich tone, the nuanced lyricism of her playing, and her commanding stage presence. Since making her debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra at age thirteen as winner of the Greenfield Competition, she has appeared as soloist with major orchestras throughout the United States including the Cleveland Orchestra, Boston Pops, National Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, New Mexico, and San Antonio Symphony Orchestras, as well as Hungary's Orchestra Dohnanyi Budafok. Upcoming performances include debuts with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Buffalo Philharmonic, among others. As one of three recipients of the prestigious London Music Masters Award, a three-year international career development award, Urioste will make her Wigmore Hall debut in 2009. The violinist has been invited to participate in the Marlboro Music Festival this summer. Urioste will be making her Chicago Symphony in April playing Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending with Sir Mark Elder conducting. She will also be making her debut at the Buffalo Philharmonic and Sarasota Orchestra and has return engagements with the Florida Orchestra and Delaware Symphony. First-place laureate in both the Junior and Senior divisions of the Sphinx Competition, she debuted at Carnegie Hall in 2004 and has returned annually to that esteemed venue's Stern Auditorium as soloist. In 2009, Urioste also made her debut at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall with award-winning conductor Alondra de la Parra. She has collaborated with acclaimed pianists Christopher O'Riley and Ignat Solzhenitsyn; conductors Robert Spano, Keith Lockhart, Carlos Miguel Prieto, and Michael Stern; and violinists Shlomo Mintz, Cho-Liang Lin, and David Kim, among others. A featured artist in the Ravinia, La Jolla, Sarasota, and Kingston Music Festivals, the International Young Artists Music Festival, and Switzerland's Sion Valais International Festival of Music, Urioste has been most recently invited to participate in the prestigious Marlboro Music Festival next summer. The 2007 first-prize winner of the Sion International Violin Competition, Miss Urioste was also awarded the audience prize and the prize for the best performance of the competition's newly commissioned work. Urioste's media appearances include multiple performances on the popular radio programs From the Top and Performance Today, as well as on Telemundo. She has been featured in the Emmy award winning documentary Breaking the Sound Barrier, and in numerous magazines including Symphony, Strings, Careers and Colleges, and Philadelphia Music Makers. Urioste's first CD was recently released on the White Pine label and features music by Janacek, Beethoven, Hubay, and Engel. Urioste is a graduate of the esteemed Curtis Institute of Music where she studied with Joseph Silverstein, Pamela Frank and Ida Kavafian, and also completed graduate studies with Joel Smirnoff at The Juilliard School. Other notable teachers include David Cerone, Choong-Jin Chang, Soovin Kim, and the late Rafael Druian. The outstanding violin and bow being used by Miss Urioste are an Alessandro Gagliano, Naples, c. 1706 and Pierre Simon bow on extended loan from Stradivari Society patron Dr. Charles E. King. Visit www.samnyc.us/artist.php?id=eurioste for more. |
