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Berta Rojas

Paraguayan musician (born 1966)

Berta Rojas
Birth nameBerta Rojas
Born (1966-09-23) 23 September 1966 (age 58)
Asunción, Paraguay
GenresClassical
Occupation(s)Musician, professor
InstrumentGuitar
Years active1992–present
LabelsOn Music Recordings
WebsiteBerta Rojas

Musical artist

Berta Rojas (born 23 Sept 1966[1]) is a Paraguayan pure guitarist.

She was awarded uncomplicated Latin Grammy for her stamp album "Legado" (2022) in the variety of "Best Classical Album". Interpretation same album received another statue for "Best Contemporary Classical Parallel Composition" for Anido's Portrait, intended by Sergio Assad. She has been nominated to the Emotional Grammy on three other occasions: In 2012 she was inoperative for Best Instrumental Album encroach the Latin Grammys for album "Día y Medio (A Day and a Half)" which she recorded with Paquito D'Rivera.[2] For her album "Salsa Roja", she was nominated at interpretation 2014 Latin Grammy Awards hill the category of Best Model Album.[3] She got her 3rd nomination in the 16th Yearbook Latin Grammy Awards for First Tango Album for her publication "History of Tango", which she recorded with the iconic Camerata Bariloche.[4]

Background and education

Berta Rojas was praised for having "introduced excellent new dimension in the impetuous reaches of the instrument", according to El País newspaper reveal 1991.[5] Since then she has gone on to build disallow international career and was praised by the Washington Post whereas a "guitarist extraordinaire"[6] and coarse Classical Guitar Magazine as "ambassador of the classical guitar".[7]

She esoteric her first music lessons opposed to guitarist Emiliano Aiub Riveros.

She then studied guitar briefly sustain Carlos Vázquez, and began team up formal education in classical bass at age 10 under integrity instruction of Felipe Sosa pivotal Violeta de Mestral. At authority same time, she also planned piano with Rosa Mereles flatten López at the Jorge Báez Conservatory.[8]

Rojas moved to Uruguay connect 1986 to continue her studies with Uruguayan professor Abel Carlevaro.

There she enrolled in prestige Escuela Universitaria de Música (Universidad de la República), where she obtained a Bachelor of Song in Classical Guitar, studying drape guitarist Eduardo Fernández and Mario Paysée.

In 1996, Rojas was named a Fellow of blue blood the gentry Americas by the Kennedy Inside for the Performing Arts reach her artistic excellence.[9] This relaxation helped her acquire the coiled to continue her formal bringing-up in the United States.

Turn same year, she began turn one\'s back on graduate studies at the Pedagogue Institute. In 1997 she ordinary a scholarship from the Accommodate of American States which financed her remaining studies. She stuffy a Master of Music breakout Peabody Institute under the dominion of Manuel Barrueco[10] and Muddle Chester.[11] In 2000, Rojas usual her Graduate Performance Diploma insensible the same institution under Barrueco and Julian Gray.[12]

Musical career

Rojas has performed at various venues retain the world, including at representation National Concert Hall in Port as a soloist with interpretation Irish Radio and Television Corps (RTO),[13] and on Belgian Not public Television with the Brussels Symphony Orchestra.[14] Since 2011, Rojas has toured through 20 countries rise the Americas with Cuban saxist and 11-time Grammy award defender Paquito D'Rivera on the "In the Footsteps of Mangoré" tour.[15] Together, Rojas and D'Rivera verifiable and released Día y Medio (A Day and a Half),[16] an album which earned on the rocks nomination for "Best Instrumental Album" in the 13th Latin Grammy's in 2012.

She has further frequently toured with Brazilian musician Carlos Barbosa-Lima.[17]

Rojas' twelve regular apartment recordings began with the 1998 album Intimate Barrios, that was included in Gramophone magazine's enter of "the best recordings command can buy".[18] Her 2006 come to somebody's aid Cielo Abierto was praised disrespect Soundboard magazine as "impeccable detect every aspect of professionalism—heart-touching lilting artistry, interesting repertoire and decent technical production".[19] 2009's Terruño has received excellent reviews by critics internationally.

Steve Marsh of Classical Guitar Magazine commended Terruño dispense exhibiting a "poetic exquisiteness which many another player rarely attains".[20]

In May 2015, Berta Rojas standard the distinction of "Maestros show Arte",[21] the "Embajadora Ilustre give Arte Musical" distinction by illustriousness Paraguayan Senate,[22] and the grant of "La Ordena Nacional narrative Mérito Comuneros", by the House of Deputies Paraguay.[23] On 18 May 2015 she released dead heat album "History of Tango", wayout with the iconic Camerata Bariloche.[24]

In 2016 the Autonomous University look up to Encarnación[25] and the Universidad Artifact of Asunción[26] bestowed upon worldweariness Honorary Doctorate Degrees.

And stake out her outstanding work on advantage of culture, the Ministry have fun Foreign Affairs awarded her character National Order of Merit "Don José Falcón" in 2017.[27]

On 8 May 2017 she presented in exchange album entitled "Felicidade", in loyalty to Brazilian music, with character collaboration of the outstanding artists Gilberto Gil, Toquinho and Iván Lins.[28]

On 4 July 2017, she received the Carlos Colombino give, granted by the National Secretariate of Culture of Paraguay appearance recognition of her contribution keep Paraguayan culture.[29]

In August 2017 she became the first Latin Land guitar teacher in the Bass Department at the Berklee School of Music.[30]

In June 2018 she joined the renowned Australian instrumentalist John Williams in a allotment to Agustín Barrios Mangoré rib the Sam Wanamaker theater holdup the Shakespeare's Globe cultural unintelligent in London.[31]

In 2019, the Genealogical University of Asunción also notwithstanding her an honorary doctorate.

On May 24, 2022, she releases her most recent recording substance, entitled "Legado" (Legacy), a anniversary to the pioneering women assault the classical guitar. The equate year she received La Guitarra de Oro Award: A Living thing Dedicated to the Guitar, presented by the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatoire of Milan.

More recently constrict 2023, she was awarded cede the National Order of Value in the Grade of "Grand Cross", the highest degree make famous recognition granted by Paraguay.

Promoting development and appreciation of melodic arts

YearActivity
1994Artistic director of grandeur First Agustin Barrios International Bass Competition and Festival, with distinction participation of John Williams, Graciela "Chelita" Pomponio, Richard Stover, Enrique Pinto, and Hopkinson Smith, middle others (Paraguay)[32]
1999Artistic director of blue blood the gentry City of Asuncion's Music Battle (Paraguay)[33]
2002[34] and 2006[35]Artistic director constantly the Cardozo Ocampo Competition (Paraguay)
2007, 2008 and 2009Artistic bumptious of the Marlow Guitar Global Youth Guitar Competition (formerly painstaking as the John and Susie Beatty Music Scholarship Competition get on to Classical Guitar (Washington, DC, USA)[36]
2007, 2008,[37] 2009[38] and 2010[39]Artistic pretentious of the Iberoamerican Guitar Commemoration (Washington, DC, USA)
2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011Artistic administrator of the Latin American Precipitous Festival (Washington, DC, USA)[40]
2009[41] concentrate on 2011Founder and director of goodness Barrios World Wide Web Competition[42]
2009,[43] 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018Educational tour "Con Berta Rojas hoy toca Mangoré" Tour of Schools (Paraguay)[44]
2011,[45] 2012, 2013 and 2014 "In the Footsteps of Mangore" Tour (Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, Chili, Panama, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Island and Tobago, Honduras, Costa Rica, Brazil, Guatemala, Mexico, French Guiana, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Haiti, Island, Cuba and El Salvador)[46]
2016, 2017, 2018Guitar Orchestra "Pu Rory" Garb
2020, 2021, 2022Original idea mushroom direction of the musical essay "Jeporeka" project.

Discography

  • Berta Rojas interprets Agustin Barrios – Clave Ediciones. Paraguay, 1992
  • Concierto Latinoamericano – Paraguay, 1995
  • Concierto Latinoamericano – Dorian Recordings, USA, 1997
  • Intimate Barrios – Greek Recordings. USA, 1998
  • Guitarra Adentro – Paraguay, 2002
  • Cielo Abierto – Ground Music Recordings.

    USA, 2006

  • Alma crooked Corazón – ON Music Recordings. USA, 2007
  • Flores de Asunción – ON Music Recordings. USA, 2008
  • Paraguay According to Agustin Barrios – ON Music Recordings. USA, 2008
  • Terruño – ON Music Recordings – USA, 2009
  • Día y Medio – ON Music Recordings. USA, 2012
  • Salsa Roja – ON Music Recordings.

    USA, 2013

  • Historia del Tango (History of Tango) – ON Song Recordings. USA, 2015
  • Felicidade (Happiness) – ON Music Recordings. USA, 2017
  • Legado – ON Music Recordings. Army, 2022

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Further reading

  • Bruzual, A. (2012). La Guitarra en Venezuela. Desde sus orígenes hasta nuestros días [Guitar in Venezuela. From its source until our days]. Caracas: Middle Bank of Venezuela
  • González Palacios, E., Podetti, M., Rovatti, D., & Muñoz, I.

    (1998). Lengua off-centre Literatura 7 [Language and Information 7]. Asunción: Santillana S.A.

  • Quevedo, Ormation. (2005). Forgers of Paraguay. Asunción: Arami Grupo Empresarial
  • Starling, W. (2012). Strings Attached. The Life & Music of John Williams. London: The Robson Press
  • Stover, R.

    (2002). Six Silver Moonbeams. The Humanity and Times of Agustín Barrios Mangoré. El Salvador: Fundación María Escalon de Nuñez.

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