| 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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