Verónica Andrea Nava Puerto
Born in Maracaibo in 1993. Veronica Andrea Nava Puerto started her violoncello studies in 2002 at the Music School Santa Rosa de Agua (part of the System of Orchestras of Venezuela) with Asdrubal Castillo and Obadias Guerra.
She studied in the Nuevo Mundo Festival Academy from 2007 to 2009 with Marcio Carneiro. And in 2011 she began studying with William Molina Cestari at the Latin-American Academy of Violoncello.
Currently finishing the bachelor in violoncello she started in 2013 at the “Cesare Pollini” Conservatory of Music in Padova, Italy with Mario Finotti.
She had the opportunity to participate in different orchestras in Venezuela, such as the Orquesta Infantil y Juvenil de Santa Rosa de Agua, Orquesta infantil y Juvenil Regional del Zulia, Orquesta Nacional infantil de Venezuela, Orquesta Sinfonica de Maracaibo and the Orquesta de la Juventud Zuliana Rafael Urdaneta with which she performed in Bergamo, Italy for the Bergamo’s Music Festival. While in Italy she played with the Palermo Classica Orchestra.
Throughout all her performances, she had the pleasure to work with conductors like Rubén Darío Cova, Gustavo Dudamel, Stefano Miceli, Sir Simon Rattle and others.
In the city of Amsterdam in 2016, she debuted with the Ensamble Çur in the prestigious Concertgebouw Theatre.
César Bracho Bracho
Born in Maracaibo in 1994. Cesar Bracho Bracho started his viola studies at the Conservatory of Music “Jose Luis Paz”. In the following years he participated in different courses such as: Festival y Academia Nuevo Mundo VIII in 2007 (viola and music theory), Festival y Academia Nuevo Mundo XX in 2009 (viola) and Fundación Musical Simón Bolívar – Art Faculty of the Los Andes’ University in Merida, 2011 (viola seminary).
In Venezuela he played in the following orchestras: Orquesta de la Juventud Zuliana Rafael Urdaneta, Orquesta Sinfónica Juvenil Núcleo Maracaibo, Orquesta Típica Juvenil del Zulia “Don Ciro Adarme” and the Núcleo Santa Rosa (as former violist and teacher).
He also participated playing the viola in the National Children’s Symphony Orchestra with which in 2010 performs in the Aula Magna of the Universidad Central de Venezuela, under the conduction of Sir Simon Rattle. That same year he participated as a guest in the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra of Venezuela in a European tour and in 2011 he played with the Sinfonica de la Juventud Zuliana Rafael Urdaneta’s European Tour.
In 2013 he enrolled for his bachelor in Viola at the “Benedetto Marcello” Conservatory of Music in Venice, Italy. Gets graduated in 2016 and starts a master in Classical Music that same year.
In Italy, he has played with the Orquestra Regionale Filarmonia Veneta, Orchestra Accademia Musicale di San Giorgio, Orchestra dell’Accademia Musicale di Schio, I Solisti Veneti and the Ensemble D.A.R in the closing of the Piazzola sul Brenta’s VII edition Music Festival. He also participated in the proyect: “Simultaneo ensamble dei Conservatori del Veneto 2015-2016” (Lugano, Italy).
In the city of Amsterdam in 2016, he debuted with the Ensamble Çur in the prestigious Concertgebouw Theatre.