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Born in Buenos Aires (Argentina), began her piano studies with her mother, she followed them under the tuition of professor Rodolfo Caracciolo and graduated at the National Conservatory of Music of Buenos Aires with the degree of Senior Teacher in Music (Piano). She also got the same degree as Senior Teacher in Music (Harpsichord) Her interest in research work of the Renaissance and Baroque Periods made her travel to Madrid where she took courses at the Royal Conservatory of Music of Madrid under professor GENOVEVA GALVEZ She has been distinguished with several scholarships to follow specialized courses given (among others) by MAGDA TALGLIAFERRO, HELMUTH ROLOFF and RAFAEL DE SILVA. She also attended master classes by SERVIO LORENZI, NIKITA MAGALOFF and by the well known harpsichord teachers LORY WALLFISCH, ROSALYN TURECK and KENNETH GILBERT At the Musicology Institute of Buenos Aires she studied with professor CARLOS VEGA. She has attended courses, seminars and conferences on Musical Education, sponsored by the American States Organization (O.E.A.), the Ministry of Culture and Education of the Arg. Rep., the Argentine Society of Musical Education, the Ministry of Education of the province of Buenos Aires, Negro and Marfil organization, Ricordi Am. and The National Conservatory of Music. MERCEDES POMILIO has an inquisitive independent mind. She does not claim to belong to any particular school, but she has developed a ski¡¡ to select from everyone those features which suit better to her personality and to the main target: Music. Her repertory covers a wide scope from the Virginalists up the most contemporary advanced expressions. It is because of this versatility to cover such a wide range of music that several composers have dedicated to her some of their works which she has played on first performance in Argentina and in Europe She has offered a great number of piano and harpsichord concerts. She also played as a soloist with different orchestras, sponsored by the Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires), Teatro Argentino La Plata, Teatro Nacional Cervantes, Secretary of Cultura of the Arg.Rep., San Martín Cultural Center, Buenos Aires Cultural Center, Sao Paulo Town Hall, "Cecilia Meirelles" (Río de Janeiro), Fundación March, Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), etc. She was awarded a prize-bestowed by the Hungarian Popular Republic on occasion of the celebration of Liszt Year for her efforts to make this author widely known in her country. She performed several of Liszt's works the first time in South America, in the Teatro Colón She attended the V Meeting of Contemporary Music in Granada (Spain) and the International Festival 'Encuentros" (Buenos Aires, Argentina). She was designate Invited Member of CAMU-UNESCO She has also recorded in CD a varied number of works of contemporary authors. MERCEDES POMILIO devotes her time both to her work as an artist and to teaching. She teaches Piano and Harpsichord at the Conservatorio Nacional Superior de Música de Buenos Aires (Instituto Universitario Nacional de las Artes)
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