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Accordingly, Opus Lima organizes workshops and classes with famous maestros of Peruvian music and dance who will lead participants on an historical and cultural journey in which they perform and experience these expressions as the means of learning, and experimenting with, them.
Opus Lima artistic direction and general coordination are the responsibility of Clelia Mertens, whose celebrated international career is the driver behind this special initiative.
Other maestros who will take part in Opus Lima V2 are the pianist Larissa Belotserkovskaia and Jose Quezada Macchiavello, scholar of Peruvian and Latin American Baroque music.
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Bio
Clelia Mertens | Opus Lima Director
Born in Argentina, she began studying harp in Buenos Aires, and then in Paris with Maestro Pierre Jamet. She began performing throughout Latin America. First Harp in the Symphonic Orchestra Of Peru between 1968 and 1973 and then between 2001 and 2009, also performing as a soloist in many occasions as well as accomplishing a wide array of chamber music activities.
Her European debut was in London, in Whitmore Hall. In Paris, she played in The Champs Elysees Hall as well as in The Salle Pleyel. Her soloist performances were with the Lyon Orchestra, with The Solisti Veneti and with The Zagreb Soloists, with whom she accomplished two tours, once in Czechoslovakia, finishing in The Prague Festival, and once in former Yugoslavia.
Settled in France, she recorded an album for the Arion label. In Germany she was praised for her performance in the “Beethoven Halle De Bonn”, Then in Belgium, Italy and Greece. In the United States she performed as a soloist with the symphonic orchestra of the University Of Muncie and in Miami with the Miami Symphony Orchestra. She also performed numerous recitals in New York and Washington DC.
She was a member of the Miami Symphony Orchestra and the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as a teacher in the Florida International University and the New World C.M.
The press in Europe, The United States and Latin America agreed on underlying, among her interpretative qualities, her refined technique, as well as her clear and pure sound that characterizes her performances.
She is presently a teacher in the National Conservatory of Music and a soloist in the National Symphonic Orchestra among other musical institutions.
Larissa Belotserkovskaia
She studied in the Gnessing Academy in Moscow, where she graduated as a pianist and a teacher. Attended master classes by Iriba Naumova and Leonid Brumberg and accomplished post-graduate work in the Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Moscow. She also worked as a piano teacher and coordinator of the Methodologist Commission in the Moscow School of Music and also as a teacher in the Methodologist Center of the Society of Musicians in Moscow.
She has accomplished several artistic activities with the soloists of the Bolshoi Theater of Moscow and is a member of the Society of Musicians in Moscow.
In Lima she has performed on numerous recitals in different institutions and stages such as the Philharmonic Society, the National Museum, the Santa Ursula Auditorium, and the Catholic University, and has performed as a soloist with National Symphonic Orchestra.
She has featured in documentaries such as “Retrato” (Portrait), which centers on her work as a concert performer and on her interaction with the world of music; “La Música y el Tiempo”, “La Estación de la memoria”, and “Elegía” were directed by José Antonio Portugal.
Jose Quezada Macchiavello
Musicologist specializing in the investigation of the Baroque Music of Peru and Latin America, born in Lima, Peru in April 1951, carries on multiple activities as musical director and choir conductor, musicologist, professor, cultural promoter and composer.
He began his musical training as a child, first with Rosa Maria Macchiavello, a piano teacher and at the Academy Sas (Lima). Subsequently conducted studies at the National Conservatory of Music in Lima (choral and composition). He have had teachers as Rodolfo Barbacci, Manuel Cuadros Barr, Enrique Iturriaga, Hans Lewitus, Francisco Pulgar Vidal, Leopoldo La Rosa, Edgar Valcárcel y Andres Sas.
Since 1976, José Quezada Macchiavello has conducted concerts with groups in Peru, United States, Finland and recently in Argentina. Over several years as a director, is particularly concerned about brand and spread the Baroque era compositions of Peru and Latin America, which was not heard in some cases for almost 300 years. He has also conducted premieres of orchestral and choral works by contemporary composers Peruvians, as Enrique Pinilla, Francisco Pulgar Vidal, Edgar and Douglas Tarnawiecki Valcárcel.
In 1985 he founded the Symphony Orchestra of Lambayeque, one of the first youth orchestra based in Peru, who led for three consecutive years, residing permanently in the city of Chiclayo.
He is director of LIMA TRIUMPHANTE Choir and Instrumental Ensemble, a group he founded in 2002 and is dedicated mainly to the spread of baroque music of the Viceroyalty of Peru. Under the leadership of José Quezada Macchiavello LIMA TRIUMPHANTE has performed in Lima, Cusco , Arequipa, Piura, Chiclayo and Trujillo, as well as in the United States (Boston, New York, Washington and Houston). Additionally, he has recorded three CDs, all with Peruvian Baroque.
