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Berta Rojas

By Xavier University Music Series (other events)

Saturday, January 20 2024 2:00 PM 4:00 PM EST
 
ABOUT ABOUT

With a renowned international trajectory, praise for Berta includes the Washington Post ́s “...guitarist extraordinaire” and Classical Guitar Magazine ́s “...ambassador of the classical guitar.”

Her album, Legado (2022), garnered two Latin Grammy awards. One, in the category of Best Classical Album, and another for the work entitled “Anido’s Portrait” written for the album by Sergio Assad, receiving the statuette for Best Classical Contemporary Composition. Berta has been nominated to the Latin Grammy on three other oc- casions: in the category of Best Tango Album for History of Tango (2015), recorded with the Camerata Bariloche; in the category of Best Classical Album for Salsa Roja (2014); and in the category of Best Instrumental Album for Día y Medio – A Day and a Half, a duo with Paquito D’Rivera (2012).

Berta ́s acknowledged warmth and musicality have won her the ad- miration of audiences at major venues worldwide. Among them are, the 92Y, the Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall and the Fredrick P. Rose Hall of Jazz at the Lincoln Center in New York, the South Bank Centre of London, at Shakespeare ́s Globe in London as a guest of the grand master, John Williams, the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., and Flagey Studio 4 in Brussels, where she performed with the Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra for Belgian National Television

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