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BAires CANTA is organized by FUNDECUA, Fundación para
el Desarrollo, la Cultura y el arte (Foundation for development,
culture and art)
FUNDECUA is
a non-profitable foundation that works on improving life of the
underprivileged sectors of our society through musical activities.
FUNDECUA
also organizes the
EIOJ - International Youth Orchestra Festival
since 2001, which hosts 50 youth orchestras every year and "Música
sin Edad" (Ageless Music) program and concert season.
 Andrea
Merenzon
Executive and Artist Director
Latin Grammy award 2005, producer of best classical album
Woman of the year 2005, Diario Clarín
Former Symphonic & Chamber Music
Manager of the Buenos
Aires Colon Theatre
General Director of the International Music Festival of
Buenos Aires,
which features renowned international professors, the
International Youth Orchestras Festival, which gathers 50 Youth
Orchestras every year and The Iguazu in Concert International
Youth Orchestra & Choir festival.
She hosted the 29th IDRS
(International Double Reed Society) Conference in Buenos Aires in
August 2OOO and was Vice-president of the Association between
1997 and 2OO1. She is member of the Teatro Colon Philarmonic
Orchestra.
Awards
„In
1999 she was distinguished with the "International Woman of the
Year" Award of the Cambridge Biographical Institute (England).
„In
1998 she was honored with the "Woman of the Year" Award of the
American Biographical Institute (U.S.A.).
„In
1999, she was awarded the Konex Merit Diploma.
„She
won First Prizes at the "Estímulo Cultural", "Promociones
Musicales", "Jóvenes Solistas" Ciudad de Mar del Plata
and "Bienal Nacional de Festivales Musicales” Competitions
and was awarded a prize for the best performance of Argentine Music
in the National Music Competition of Banco Mayo.
Solo Performing
„Miss
Merenzon has performed as a Soloist with the following orchestras:
Nacional Argentina, Filarmónica de Buenos Aires,
de Mar del Plata, de Bahía Blanca, de San Juan,
de Córdoba, de Tucumán, de Santa Fé, de
Entre Rios, de Cámara de la
Plata, Latinoamericana de Juventudes
Musicales (Uruguay), de Concepción (Chile), Indiana
University (USA), Paris Sinfonietta and
Toulouse Chamber Orchestra (France), Adana
(Turkey), Nacional Brasilera (Brasil) and the US
Army Symphony (USA).
„She
has performed recitals and appeared as a soloist in
France,
Iceland,
Uruguay,
Brasil,
Chile,
México,
USA,
Canada
and
Turkey.
„In
Paris, she played the premières of the concerts for Bassoon and
Orchestra by Julio Pardo, Augusto Rattenbach, Roque de Pedro, Astor
Piazzolla-Gabriel Senanes and Alonso Crespo.
„In
1996, she was invited to play as soloist with Paris Sinfonietta at
the
Salle
Pleyel
(Paris).
She was also especially invited by the International Conference of
the IDRS
in
Tallahassee, Chicago, Arizona, Wisconsin,
West Virginia, (USA) and the Banff Center
(Canada).
Miss Andrea Merenzon began her bassoon studies with her father,
Alberto Merenzon, and her Chamber Music studies with Mariano Frogioni.
Aided by a scholarship of the
Teatro
Colón
Foundation,
she studied with Sidney Rosemberg at
Indiana
University,
USA. She later took graduate courses with Klauss Thunemann (Germany)
and Nöel Devos (France).
Andrea Merenzon´s
personal email address:
andreamerenzon@gmail.com
FUNDECUA
Av. Córdoba 2555 5º Piso
C 1120AAH C.A.B.A. Argentina
Tel/Fax: +54 11 4961 8223
We are waiting for your contact:
fundecua@gmail.com
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