Argentina DUran

Piano

She is currently the pianist of the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico. She has performed in the United States, Europe, and Asia, in venues such as the Millennium Amphitheater in Dubai, Ganz Hall in Chicago, Rashid Behdudov Theater, Baku Academy of Music in Azerbaijan, and Fresno City College in California. She has been awarded in the “Angélica Morales Yamaha National Piano Competition” by INBA in Mexico City, the “Irina Samodaeva International Piano Competition” in Villahermosa, Tabasco, the “Città di Barletta International Competition” in Italy, and won first place in the “Monegros 88 Keys International Competition” in Spain.

As a soloist, she has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra, Xalapa Symphony Orchestra, Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra, San Luis Potosí Symphony Orchestra, National Polytechnic Institute Symphony Orchestra, Coahuila Desert Philharmonic, Eduardo Mata Youth Orchestra, among others, and has collaborated with the International Arts Orchestra and Minería Symphony Orchestra at the National Auditorium.

She has performed as a soloist in the main hall of the Palace of Fine Arts, in Nezahualcóyotl Hall, in Blas Galindo Hall at the National Center for the Arts, and in the most important venues in the country. She was invited to the city of Granada, Spain, where she performed as a soloist with the Eduardo del Pueyo Youth String Orchestra.

She received scholarships from FONCA-CONACyT and the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University in Chicago, IL, to study piano performance with Maestro Jorge Federico Osorio.

Invited by the Mexican Consulate in Fresno, California, she performed at Fresno City College, where she also offered masterclasses. At Fresno State University, she performed with soprano María Katzarava, with whom she also gave a concert at Expo Dubai in the United Arab Emirates in 2022.

She was a professor of the piano degree program at the Faculty of Music at UNAM and is also invited to participate as a jury member and to offer masterclasses at festivals such as the Young Pianists Competition and Festival in Pasto, Colombia, the Zaldumbide Rosales Foundation in Quito, Ecuador, the Papantla International Piano Festival, the National Children’s and Youth Festival “Las Notas de Guido,” the Sinaloa Artistic Society, and the Latin American Competition “América Para Todos.”

She graduated from the Faculty of Music at Universidad Veracruzana and completed her Master’s in the Interpretation of Mexican Classical Music at the National Conservatory of Music of Mexico.

At the age of 11, she had her first solo performance with the CIMI orchestra and won her first competition to perform as a soloist with the Xalapa Symphony Orchestra under the tutelage of Maestra Trinidad Sanchís.

She is a sponsored artist by YAMAHA and ROLAND pianos.

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