That's Not Spit, It's Condensation!

#63: Winning The Job: Jeremías Sergiani-Velázquez

June 10, 2020 Ryan Beach
That's Not Spit, It's Condensation!
#63: Winning The Job: Jeremías Sergiani-Velázquez
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Hailed as “accomplished in mechanism and style” (Buenos Aires Herald), Jeremías is a member of the violin section of the Pittsburgh Symphony since 2019, and is building an intriguing musical life. His accomplishments began in his home country of Argentina, and have spread to the US, Europe, and Asia. A graduate from The Juilliard School, he has been awarded First Prize at the Argentinian Hebrew Foundation Competition and has soloed with the Teatro San Martín Youth National Symphony in Buenos Aires, the Córdoba National University Symphony and the New York Classical Players. While in New York, Jeremías has played at National Sawdust with Miranda Cuckson, and was a founding member of the New York-based Frisson Ensemble, a nine-people mixed chamber music group that performs in several chamber music series throughout the US and was featured in NPR’s Performance Today. He has also performed in numerous tours with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, at the Dresden Frauenkirche in Germany, with appearances on MediciTV, as well as at the Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, Canada, among many other venues throughout the US; serving as principal second violinist in several occasions. Other engagements include a tour of Nepal and Japan as part of the “Music Sharing” International Community Engagement Program where he performed in a string quartet with acclaimed violinist Midori at the Oji Hall in Tokyo, Phoenix Hall in Osaka, United Nations in Kathmandu, as well as in multiple refugee camps, shelters, and areas affected by the earthquake throughout Nepal.

In the summer of 2019 he joined the Grant Park Symphony (currently serving a 1-year third chair position). He has also played as concertmaster of both the New York Classical Players and of the “Ensamble Invasión” in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Jeremías has attended several summer programs including the Music at Menlo Chamber Music Festival: International Program; as well as the Aspen Music Festival where he collaborated in chamber music performances with Robert Chen and Edgar Meyer. He has also attended the Perlman Music Program, Taos School of Music, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, New York String Seminar Orchestra and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival.

Jeremías made his first solo appearances at the age of 10 with the Córdoba Youth Orchestra with which he toured several halls in Argentina. In 2009, he was invited to play at the inaugural concert of the “Por los Caminos del Vino” Festival, and in the inaugural concert of the 2010 Young Concert Series at Femusc Festival in Brazil where he met Miriam Fried, who encouraged him to study with her at the New England Conservatory where he received his Bachelor of Music with academic honors. He has performed at Jordan Hall in multiple occasions with his former quartet (winners of the NEC Honors Ensemble Competition) and with the New England Conservatory Philharmonia, as well as performances at the Music for Food program, dedicated to raise funds for those in need in the Greater Boston area. Jeremías obtained his Master of Music from the Juilliard School, where he studied with Sylvia Rosenberg and Ronald Copes. He recently obtained a Professional Studies Certificate from the Manhattan School of Music where he studied with Glenn Dicterow, Lisa Kim, and Sylvia Rosenberg.

Jeremías is a recipient of the 2011, 2012 and 2013 “Fondo de Becas”, 2016 Teresa Gruneisen scholarships from the Argentine Mozarteum, the Ruth Katzman Scholarship, the Luria Foundation Scholarship, and the Mercantil Commercebank Scholarship.

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