Who’s Elena Urioste?
US-born violinist Elena Urioste is a former BBC New Technology Artist, who has carried out with main orchestras all through America and internationally. Co-founder together with her husband, the British pianist and composer Tom Poster, of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective in 2017, she can be a dedicated chamber musician and inventive director of Chamber Music by the Sea, an annual pageant in Maryland, US. In the course of the pandemic, she and Poster launched #UriPosteJukeBox – every day movies streamed over 88 consecutive days of lockdown, together with six new commissions.
When and the place was Elena Urioste born?
Urioste was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in April 1986, however grew up in Lansdale, Philadelphia. Her father is of Basque and Mexican heritage, and her mom is Sicilian, Russian and Hungarian.
When did she first be taught to play the violin?
Urioste’s mother and father loved classical music however weren’t musicians themselves. On the age of two, she noticed violinist Itzhak Perlman’s look on Sesame Road and requested her mother and father for a violin. Three years later, when Urioste was 5, they allowed her to start Suzuki violin classes via her college’s stringed instrument programme. Shortly thereafter, she started learning privately and made quick progress, showing as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra on the age of 13.
Who have been Elena Urioste’s lecturers?
Urioste is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard Faculty. Her lecturers and mentors embody Joseph Silverstein, David Cerone, Ida Kavafian, Pamela Frank, Claude Frank, Choong-Jin Chang, Soovin Kim and Ferenc Rados.
How did her early profession develop?
Urioste took prime prizes within the junior and senior Sphinx Competitors for younger gamers of minority backgrounds, which led to her debut at Carnegie Corridor, New York in 2004 and to the discharge of an album on the White Pine label in 2008. She additionally carried out at New York’s Lincoln Middle in 2009, and was awarded a Salon de Virtuosi profession grant. She was named a BBC New Technology Artist from 2012-14.
What about her more moderen profession highlights?
In 2016 Urioste based the annual Chamber Music by the Sea pageant in Berlin, Maryland, and in 2017 she and pianist Tom Poster based the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, a versatile ensemble of numerous musicians, which in 2020 turned the Wigmore Corridor’s new Affiliate Ensemble.
She and Poster have recorded a number of albums collectively for BIS, Chandos and Orchid Classics. In April 2022 they have been awarded BBC Music Journal’s Premiere Award for The Jukebox Album, primarily based on their 2020 #UriPosteJukeBox lockdown challenge, for which the pair had shared a brand new video on-line every day for 88 consecutive days, together with six new commissions.
As a soloist Urioste has appeared with many main orchestras, together with the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra and London Philharmonic, in addition to the Boston Pops and the Malaysian Philharmonic.
She’s going to carry out Ethel Smyth’s Concerto for Violin and Horn with horn participant Ben Goldscheider and the Metropolis of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra at the Proms on 25 July 2022.
The place does Elena Urioste dwell?
Urioste divides her time between the US and the UK, and lives together with her pianist husband Tom Poster and their younger son Tico.
What violin does Urioste play?
Urioste performs on a c.1706 Alessandro Gagliano violin and a Nicolas Kittel bow, each on prolonged mortgage from the non-public assortment of Dr Charles E. King via the Stradivari Society of Chicago.
And one other factor…
Urioste is an enthusiastic yoga practitioner and is co-founder of Intermission, a programme that goals to encourage wholesome and holistic music making via yoga and meditation.
Photograph © Chris Gloag
