MUJERES ARGENTINAS

Claudia Rolando was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She holds a Degree in Music Arts with a specialization in Singing from the University Institute of Arts and a Degree in Classic Singing from the National Conservatory of Music, Argentina. In 2008 she graduated from a Master in Arts and Scenes Management from the University of the Basque Country, and in 2010 from a Master in Spanish and Latin American Music, from the University of Valladolid, Spain. Her teaching career began at the University of Buenos Aires, as a teacher of Singing and Vocal methods, and nowadays she teaches courses in Choir and Singing at the University of Valladolid, Spain. As a singer, she has performed in internationally renowned theatres in Europe and America. Claudia Rolando is able to perform in a wide repertoire that covers from baroque to contemporary music. She had the opportunity to premier songs by very well known composers and to take part in their recordings. Nowadays she is writing her PhD Thesis on the Singing Learning Processes, at the Music Department at the University of Valladolid, with a scholarship from the Basque Country Ministry of Education and as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Amsterdam.

Melina Marcos was born in Buenos Aires in 1982. When she was 23, she earned a Degree in Piano from the National Conservatory of Music “Carlos López Buchardo”, Argentina, and a Degree in Music Arts with specialization in Piano, from the University Institute of Arts, Argentina the following year. She attended numerous advanced courses in Argentina and Spain. During 2011 she won a scholarship from the Chamber Music Foundation. She performed in music festivals and courses, collaborating with distinguished national and international artists and orchestras, and performed in prestigious concert halls in Argentina, like the Colón Theatre, and in Spain, where she was invited by the Spanish Government to perform in commemoration of the bicentenary celebrations of the Argentinian Republic. She won the Accompanying pianist position in Viola and Sax Departments of the University Institute of Arts in 2003. She began her teaching career at the age of 21, when she joined the National Conservatory of Music as a teacher’s assistant of piano for undergraduate and graduate students. Since 2007 she is a Piano Professor at the same institution.