As one of three recipients of the prestigious London Music Makers Award, a three-year international career development award, Urioste will make her Wigmore Hall debut in 2009. First-place laureate in both the Junior and Senior divisions of the Sphinx Competition, she debuted at Carnegie Hall in 2004 and has returned annually to that esteemed venue's Stern Auditorium as soloist. In 2009, Urioste also made her debut at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall with award-winning conductor Alondra de la Parra. She has collaborated with acclaimed pianists Christopher O'Riley and Ignat Solzhenitsyn; conductors Robert Spano, Keith Lockhart, Carlos Miguel Prieto, and Michael Stern; and violinists Shlomo Mintz, Cho-Liang Lin, and David Kim, among others. A featured artist in the Ravinia, La Jolla, Sarasota, and Kingston Music Festivals, the International Young Artists Music Festival, and Switzerland's Sion Valais International Festival of Music, Urioste has been most recently invited to participate in the prestigious Marlboro Music Festival next summer.Â
The 2007 first-prize winner of the Sion International Violin Competition, Miss Urioste was also awarded the audience prize and the prize for the best performance of the competition's newly commissioned work.Â
Urioste's media appearances include multiple performances on the popular radio programs From the Top and Performance Today, as well as on Telemundo. She has been featured in the Emmy award winning documentary Breaking the Sound Barrier, and in numerous magazines including Symphony, Strings, Careers and Colleges, and Philadelphia Music Makers. Urioste's first CD was recently released on the White Pine label.Â
Urioste is a graduate of the esteemed Curtis Institute of Music where she studied with Joseph Silverstein, Pamela Frank and Ida Kavafian, and also completed graduate studies with Joel Smirnoff at The Juilliard School. Other notable teachers include David Cerone, Choong-Jin Chang, Soovin Kim, and the late Rafael Druian.Â
The outstanding violin being used by Miss Urioste is a Michelangelo Bergonzi, Cremona, circa 1750, on extended loan through the generous efforts of Society for Strings, Inc., Meadowmount School of Music, from the private collection of Dr. Charles E. King.Â
The outstanding violin and bow being used by Miss Urioste are an Alessandro Gagliano, Naples, c. 1706 and Pierre Simon bow on extended loan from the private collection of Dr. Charles E. King.
