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Mónica Cárdenas (Spanish) began her musical studies at the National Conservatory of Music in Lima-Peru with Professor Elena Ichikawa. From 1984 to 1988, she won a scholarship for a Postgraduate degree at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Kiev with Professor Alla Saderatzkaja and at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow where she studied with Professors Vladimir Natanson and Mikhael Voskresensky. She has performed countless recitals as soloist with orchestras. In 1990, Mónica Cárdenas travelled to Munich where she trained in Chamber Music under professors from the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1992 she founded the Cárdenas Trio with whom she has been performing concerts for over decade in Europe and Latin America. Her concerts and recordings, which enjoy positive critique, her appearance on television and radio as well as the numerous works dedicated to her by contemporary composers are all testimony to her artistic category. A case in point is the well-known brazilian composer Marlos Nobre who, after listening to the Cárdenas Trio was quoted, "I am extremely impressed with the excellent level of the members of the Cárdenas Trio. They have excellent chamber music training that exhibits to what level their artistic, instrumental and musical integration has reached. Bravisimo". In 2008, the maestro Nobre asked Mónica to perform his Piano Trio 4 with the Cárdenas Trio. Mónica has developed as an accompanying pianist and she trains singers since she can speak 5 languages. She has performed in concerts with numerous soloists, such as for the world renown dominican tenor Francisco Casanova, winner of the Francisco Vinas Competition in Barcelona. She also worked actively in the Opera School of the Musikhochschule of Munich as the accompanying pianist for Professor Ana Chumachenco's classes. She ahs played and made recordings with soloists from the Bayerische Rundfunk Orchester, and she was the pianist for the classes of Professor Andrej Kucharsky in the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich. In 2001, she won 2nd place in a piano competition for the Community of Madrid. Afterwards she worked in the Zarzuela Theatre as a pianist of soloists and accompanying pianist in international competitions. Mónica has composed classical music for chamber groups such as: Piano Trio with Cajon (peruvian percussion instrument) inspired by afro-peruvian themes and rhythms; String Quartet (cuban danzon and mambo); a work for chamber orquestra and Cajon with afro-peruvian themes and rhythms from Lima. She has pleased to be able to fulfil her musical career in many different countries, in which, besides performing in concert, she also teaches master classes, chamber music classes, and works with young advanced students preparing for international competitions. In the 2010-2011 academic year, Mónica was appointed as a Piano and Chamber Music teacher in the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music in Jerusalem, Israel. She also performed concerts with the Palestinian National Orchestra in various cities. Mónica lives in Germany. |
