Marcela Magin

Born in Rosario, Santa Fe (Argentina). Marcela Magin is a viola soloist of Camerata Bariloche and Bach Academy of Buenos Aires, member of Trío Luminar and chamber music professor at the Teatro Colón’s Art Advanced Studies Institute (ISA). Since their inception, she holds the violist position in the groups Los Músicos de Cámara de Buenos Aires, Cuarteto de Cuerdas Buenos Aires, Trío Luminar and Los Solistas de Música Contemporánea. She graduated from the Higher Institute of Music of the Universidad Nacional de Rosario with a major in violin and viola, she continued her studies with maestros Mary Barg, Ljerko Spiller, Brunilda Gianneo, Tomás Tichauer and Szymsia Bajour. She performed as soloist with Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional and symphonic and chamber orchestras of other parts of the country, under the conduction of maestros Pedro I. Calderón, Simón Blech, Wolfgang Scheit, David Lloyd-Jones, Mario Benzecry, Jan Krenz and Andrés Spiller. She was viola soloist of the Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires until 2018. The OAS and the British Council for Cultural Relations awarded her with a scholarship in order to attend classes with maestro Bruno Giuranna in Siena (Italy) and Cornwall (England). She premiered several Argentinian composer’s works and played the Argentinian premiere of "A String Around Autumn" by Toru Takemitsu in 2000. In 2005 she was awarded with a Latin Grammy for her participation in the "Riberas" CD and in 2009 the Trío Luminar won the Konex as one of the five best chamber ensembles of the decade.