ASM Chamber Music Workshop Bios

ASM MUSIC DEPARTMENT PRESENTS

ASM CHAMBER MUSIC WORKSHOP

MUSICIAN BIOS

Carlos Ocaña Guest Conductor, Violin Carlos Ocaña Arroyo studied Orchestra Conducting at Musikene (Basque Country) with professors Manel Valdivieso and Arturo Tamayo and graduated in 2016. He continued his studies at Opus 23 Academy (Madrid) with Miguel Romea and Andrés Salado.

Carlos was the Assistant Conductor for the Orquesta Sinfónica Verum and is currently both the Orquesta Sinfónica MDC and Tantris Ensemble conductor and co-founder. He has conducted the JORCAM (Young Orchestra of Madrid Community) in a series ofdidactic concerts aimed at children and families as well as the BSO with baritone Fernando Latorre at Bilbao Palacio Euskalduna.

In 2017 he worked with the Intermezzo Chorus in the Quincena Musical Festival (SanSebastián) and was invited by Erik Nielsen to conduct the BSO in two concerts in September, conducting Tchaikovsky’s 5th Symphony and Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto. He was also invited back by Robert Trevino to conduct two concerts in the Basque Symphony Orchestra 2018/19 season in a string orchestra program. He recently was invited to conduct the OSCyL (Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León) as the Assistant Conductor for Vasily Petrenko.

Carlos has won the Third Prize in the Lake Como International Conducting Competition (Bellano, Italy) and the Second Prize in theInternational Conducting Competition Città di Brescia-Giancarlo Facchinetti in 2019 and participated in the Jorma Panula International Conducting Competition in Vaasa Finland, finishing in the top 10 out of 160 candidates. In different opportunities he has conducted the Orquesta de Valencia, Orquesta de Córdoba and the Extremadura Youth Orchestra in Spain, the Lake Como Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra della Magna Grecia and Dédalo Ensemble in Italy or Vaasa City Orchestra and Jyväsklä Sinfonia in Finland.

Javier Martin Bass "He began his musical education at the age of 8 at the Conservatorio Profesional de Música Arturo Soria in Madrid (Spain), where he pursued the Enseñanzas Elementales de Música and the Enseñanzas Profesionales de Música programs in double bass.

"Upon completion, he continued his bachelor’s degree in music performance at the Centro Superior Katarina Gurska. After graduating in 2016, he was awarded a scholarship for the twoyear Master program in Music Performance at Boston University with Professor Edwin Barker, Principal Double Bass of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Also, he has received lessons by well-known double bass players such as Rinat Ibragimov, Benjamin Levy, Todd Seeber, David Allen Moore y Luis Cabrera

In 2018 he came back to Spain, where he started working at the Centro Superior Katarina Gurska as a double bass and orchestral techniques professor. Also, he has worked at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid for the 2019/20 academic year in the same capacity.

Moreover, he has conducted double bass sectionals with youth orchestras such as the Boston Symphony Youth Orchestras and the Orquesta JMJ. He also teaches double bass in the Programa de Perfeccionamiento Musical, a summer program consisting of masterclasses and individual lessons at the Centro Superior Katarina Gurska in Madrid.

As a double bass player, he is a regular collaborator of the Orquesta y Coro de Radiotelevisión Española, the Orquesta Nacional de España and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León, among others. He has played under the baton of music conductors such as Pablo Heras-Casado, Ken-David Masur, Pablo González, Bramwell Tovey, Lina González-Granados, George Pehlivanian, Grzegorz Nowak, Juanjo Mena, Thomas Sanderling, János Kovács or Henrik Schaefer. Also, he has played alongside well-known international soloist like Joshua Bell, Nicola Benedetti, Renaud Capuçon, Eldar Nebolsin, Krystian Zimerman, Arabella Steinbacher, Asier Polo or JeanGuihen Queyras."

Jorge Llamas Violin "Born in Madrid, Jorge began to study violin with Anna Baget in Conservatorio Adolfo Salazar and continued in Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía with Marco Rizzi and Mario Hossen. He completed his "Bachelor's Degree in Musikene under the guidance of Keiko Wataya and his Master's Degree in Hochschule für Musik Freiburg with Sebastian Hamann and Muriel Cantoreggi. As an avid chamber music player he has joined festivals such as Festivo Kammermusik Festival im Chiemgau, Quincena Musical Donostiarra, Orlando Festival, Turina entre Festivales, Festival Internacional de Arte Sacro de la Comunidad de Madrid, among others, sharing stage with artists such as Gordan Nikolic, Nicolas Dautricourt, Floris Mijnders, Muriel Cantoreggi, Johannes Erkes or Johan van Iersel. He has also collaborated with several orchestras: Orquesta Radio Televisión Española, Orquesta Sinfónica de Euskadi, ADDA Simfònica, I Tempi Kammerorchester or Orquesta Sinfónica Verum. As a violin teacher he has been assistant of Muriel Cantoreggi in Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and violin teacher in Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid.

He currently teaches at Conservatorio Profesional de Música Joaquín Turina.

Isa Juarez Viola "Born in Madrid, Isabel enjoys an international career as violist in chamber and orchestral music, both in modern and historical performance practice settings.

Isabel combines her regular appearances with leading spanish historical groups like Concerto 1700, Nereydas, Forma Antiqva, Tiento Nuovo, L’ Apothèose, or in Portugal, Orquesta Barroca Casa Da Música (Oporto); with modern projects with Orquesta de Cámara “Andrés Segovia”, the 2 viola Dúo Iris or even opening her boundaries to indie music, collaborating with American singer-songwriter David Burnett. She had the pleasure of playing solo for the Spanish Embassy in Rome, in Casa Cervantes of Valladolid as part of MusaE cycle, and many times inside the summer festival "Clásicos en Verano" of Comunidad de Madrid. Wanting to share music with the future generations, she is also teaching at the American School of Madrid.

Previously she was a substitute at the National Orchestra of Spain, the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, Holland Baroque, Al Ayre Español and Ensemble Diderot. A big fan of chamber music, she was a co-founder of several groups like Intercontinental Ensemble or Cuarteto Bauhaus, with whom she was involved in big productions with the Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico and Teatro Español, and offered recitals in the cycles of FIAS or Juventudes Musicales de España, among others.

Besides her musical education, she holds a bachelor degree in Classical Philology and a master in Musicology. Isabel Juárez plays on a beautiful viola of 1820, attributed to the viennese luthier Martin Stoss and bows by Pieter Affourtit, Basil de Visser and John Matthews.

Miguel Rosell Cello "Miguel was born in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, where he began his musical studies on the classical Guitar, under the direction of the master Rodrigo Riera. He later moved to Caracas, where he began studying cello in the “Simón Bolívar Conservatory”, a part of the National Movement of Young Orchestras of Venezuela. In Spain, he studied cello and chamber music and received his master degree from the Madrid Royal Conservatory of Music.

He started his professional activity on the “Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho Orchestra”, and afterwards on the “Caracas Municipal Orchestra”. In Spain he has worked with several orchestras, among others: “Orquesta Filarmónica de Madrid, Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, Orquesta de Cámara Eduard Toldrá and the Orchestra Académica de Madrid.

He has also participated in several recordings for cinema and theater productions and for many independent artists, as well as for the Spain National Radio (RNE).

Mr. Rosell has been a member of; Quadrivium String Quartet, “Agrupación Camerística Isolda'', “Ensamble Tierra de Gracia”, “Terra Ensemble”. He has toured extensively through Spain: Africa, the Middle East, and the rest of Europe.

Miguel is developing an intensive program as a professor of cello and chamber music in these schools: “Enrique Granados of Majadahonda”, Pozuelo Municipal School of Music and Dance. Last year he collaborated in the Summer Camp Música y Cultura Santander 2021.