E-mail Salomé Sandoval
Salomé Sandoval sings and plays a variety of fretted
string instruments such as lutes, early and classical
guitars. A native of Venezuela Salomé holds Graduate
Performance Diploma in Early Music (voice with Laurie
Monahan and lute with Douglas Freundlich) thanks to
a scholarship awarded by Longy School of Music in
Cambridge, MA; a Bachelor in Music from Instituto
Universitario de Estudios Musicales (in Venezuela,
classical guitar with Luis Zea) and a Master’s in Arts
from Middle Tennessee State University (in classical
guitar with William Yelverton). She has played in
master classes with renowned international guitarists
and lutenists such as Paul O’Dette and Nigel North, as
well as in radio shows, theater, movie soundtracks and
television. Award winner in several competitions,
Salomé has sung and played early, Latin American, and
contemporary music in various ensembles and choirs in
Venezuela and the US. She has collaborated in CD
recordings with Camerata Renacentista y Barroca de
Caracas and Revels. In her two Cds "Singing with the
Fire" and "Potions" Salomé combines her voice and
classical guitar with repertoire that includes English
Renaissance pieces, Latin American and Spanish music.
Recent achievements include a grant awarded by the
Saint Botolph Club Foundation for acquiring a 7-course
Renaissance lute and a scholarship by Early Music
America to attend the Amherst Early Music Festival.
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