 ELENA URIOSTE,
recently 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.
First-place laureate in both the Junior and Senior divisions
of the Sphinx Competition, Miss Urioste made her Carnegie Hall
debut in 2004 as a featured soloist in the inaugural Sphinx
Gala Concert. She has returned annually to that esteemed venue's
Stern Auditorium as soloist, and has also performed in recital
at Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall. In 2009, she will make her
debut at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall with award-winning
conductor Alondra de la Parra and the Philharmonic Orchestra
of the Americas. She has collaborated with acclaimed pianists
Christopher O'Riley and Ignat Solzhenitsyn; conductors Robert
Spano, Keith Lockhart, and Michael Stern; and violinists Shlomo
Mintz, Cho-Liang Lin, and David Kim, among others. A featured
artist in the La Jolla, Sarasota, and Kingston Music Festivals,
the International Young Artists Music Festival, and Switzerland's
Sion Valais International Festival of Music, Miss Urioste has
been most recently invited to participate in the prestigious
Marlboro Music Festival next summer.
Miss 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.
Miss Urioste's first CD was recently released on the White
Pine label.
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.
Miss Urioste is a graduate of the esteemed Curtis Institute
of Music where she studied with Joseph Silverstein, Pamela
Frank and Ida Kavafian, and is currently pursuing graduate
studies at The Juilliard School with Joel Smirnoff. Other notable
teachers include David Cerone and the late Rafael Druian. She
is the past recipient of a Starling Foundation Scholarship
at Temple University Music Preparatory Center for Gifted Young
Musicians in Philadelphia, where she was a student of Choong-Jin
Chang and Soovin Kim.
The outstanding violin being used by Miss Urioste is a Michelangelo
Bergonzi, Cremona, circa 1750, on extended loan through the
generous efforts of Society for Strings, Inc., Meadowmount
School of Music, from the private collection of Dr. Charles
E. King.
April, 2009 |
