Sergio Parotti Cuartetos de Cuerdas Vol. 1 Elías Gurevich, Florencia Ciaffone, Juan Manuel Castellanos, Juan Ignacio Zubiaurre

Elías Gurevich
First violin of the Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires since 1983. Adjunct concertmaster of Camerata Bariloche. Member of the CEAMC Quintet. Founding member of the Trío Argentino and the duo Manos a las Obras with pianist Haydée Schvartz.

Florencia Ciaffone
She is a graduate of the Violin Department of the Conservatorio Superior de Música ‘Manuel de Falla’. She is currently specialising in the Diploma as a Performer in Contemporary Music, under the guidance of Elías Gurevich.

In the field of popular music, he was a member of the Orquesta Escuela de Tango, conducted by Maestro Emilio Balcarce, with whom he released the CD ‘Bien Compadre’ in 2003.

He was a member of the instrumental ensemble of the CIMAP, under the musical direction of pianist Hilda Herrera, dedicated to the creation and diffusion of arrangements and compositions within the rhythms and forms of popular Argentinean music.

Since 2013 he has been a member of the Trio Dívka and since 2015 of the Trio Grin with intense concert activity. He was a violin teacher at the Escuela Superior de Educación Artística en Música ‘Juan Pedro Esnaola’ and since 2015 he has been a violin professor at the Conservatorio Superior de Música ‘Manuel de Falla’.

Since 2004 he has been a violinist with the Chamber Orchestra of the National Congress and has been a regular member of the Ensamble Tropi since its foundation in 2008.

Juan Manuel Castellanos
Born in 1987 in the city of Córdoba, he began his violin studies at the age of 10 with the Suzuki Method, with Fernando Piñero as his teacher, and at the age of 18 he continued his viola studies with Finlay Ferguson and Rolando Prusak as his teachers.

As a guide of the violas row, he was a member of the Orquesta Académica Juvenil del Teatro del Libertador San Martín (Córdoba) and the Orquesta Sinfónica de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. He was also a member of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Córdoba and the Sinfónica Nacional y Juvenil del Bicentenario.

During the 2008/2009 seasons he was a member of the Youth Orchestra of the Americas on its tours of Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, the United States and Canada, and participated as a guest at Carnegie Hall in New York, under the baton of Carlos Miguel Prieto and Valery Gérgiev. He attended the Santa Catarina Music Festival (Brazil) where he participated in master classes with renowned professors such as Ori Kam and Richard Young.

In 2011 she won a competition to join the Orquesta Estable del Teatro Argentino de La Plata and the following year she joined the Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires, where she is currently the third viola.

In 2016 she participated in master classes and chamber concerts with maestro Nicolás Chumachenco. He has also participated as a guest musician in several festivals in Ushuaia, Bariloche, Santa Fe, Cordoba and Buenos Aires. He is a founding member of the Cuarteto Cordes.

Juan Ignacio Zubiaurre
Graduated in Violoncello from the Conservatorio Superior de Musica ‘Manuel de Falla’ and the Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón. He took Masterclasses with outstanding international cellists such as Eduardo Valenzuela (Chile), Estelle Revaz (Switzerland), Ana Topalovic (Austria) and Wolfram Koessel (USA).

He was a member of several orchestras such as the Orquesta Sinfónica Juvenil Nacional ‘José de San Martin’ and the Orquesta Académica del ISATC. He participated in meetings and Musical Festivals such as Iguazú en Concierto and the Festival Academia Internacional de Música Portillo (Chile). He has performed in symphonic and chamber format in venues such as the Teatro Colon, CCK, Facultad de Derecho, Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Chile. He has been a member of the ensemble Tropi since 2023.

Sergio Parotti
Born in the Buenos Aires neighbourhood of Palermo, Sergio Parotti studied from an early age at the Juan José Castro Provincial Conservatory and at the Manuel De Falla Municipal Conservatory in the city of Buenos Aires. He studied Composition with Maestro Enrique Cipolla (26-12-1929/30-01-1994); Viola with Marcela Magin; Violin with Eduardo Acedo, Osvaldo D'Amore and Norberto García; Piano and Horn.

His works have been published by the most prestigious publishers: Éditions Billaudot of Paris, Universal Edition of Vienna, Periferia Music of Barcelona and Da Vinci Editions of Osaka.

Since 1995 he has been a member of the Argentinean Association of Composers, the former National Society of Music founded in 1915, where he is a member of the Board of Directors. To date, he has 492 composed works in his catalogue. His vast oeuvre also includes original tangos that are not included in the catalogue numbering, both for Quintet (Violin, Guitar, Bandoneon, Piano and Double Bass), and for Sextet (2 Violins, 2 Bandoneons, Double Bass and Piano) and Typical Orchestra.

Besides being a composer, he is a member of the National Polyphonic Choir for the Blind ‘Carlos Roberto Larrimbe’, coordinating the transcription of the printed music into the Braille musicographic system. He has also been a violist in the Chamber Orchestra of the Municipality of Lanús since 1991.

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