06/28/2024. Under the direction of renowned maestro Jorge Mario Uribe González, the Salta Symphony Orchestra will perform a repertoire that celebrates both national and international music.
The Salta Symphony Orchestra will perform in concert on the eve of the commemoration of Argentine Independence on Tuesday, July 8 at 9 p.m. at the “Juan Carlos Saravia” Provincial Theater.
Under the direction of renowned maestro Jorge Mario Uribe González, the Salta Symphony Orchestra will perform a repertoire that celebrates both national and international music.
The Orchestra will present a program including the Argentine National Anthem by López y Planes – Parera; Wagner’s Tannhäuser Overture; Argentine Scenes by López Buchardo; and Brahms’ Symphony No. 1
This concert will not only celebrate Argentine independence, but will also offer a national and international musical evening, demonstrating the talent and dedication of the Salta Symphony Orchestra.
Next Tuesday, July 8 at 9 p.m. at the “Juan Carlos Saravia” Provincial Theater, Zuviría 70, the major body of music will be presented with free admission to commemorate one of the most important national dates in Argentine History.
About Jorge Mario Uribe
Currently, maestro Uribe has recently been appointed as chief conductor of the Salta Symphony Orchestra in Argentina. He is an outstanding and talented Colombian conductor and clarinetist. He won the jury’s honor prize at the Black Sea International Conducting Competition, was a semi-finalist at the Bucharest International Conducting Competition and also a semi-finalist at the European Union International Conducting Competition, one of the most prestigious competitions in the world which had more than 300 competitors from the 5 continents.
In 2018 he was invited to conduct the opening concert of the thirtieth Carpineto Romano Festival in Italy in a cloister from the 1600s in front of the Philharmonic Orchestra of the city of Latina (Latina Philarmonia). He has been a guest conductor at the Eafit Symphony Orchestra of Medellín, the Salta Symphony Orchestra in Argentina, the symphonic band of the District University of Bogotá and for 12 years he worked as associate conductor at the Cali Philharmonic Orchestra, Colombia, leading the who conducted a large number of concerts developing an important symphonic repertoire as well as a series of special projects combining the music of great composers with other manifestations of art: the concert in tribute to the “400 years since the death of William Shakespeare” and the “200 years of Manfred by Lord Byron” in cooperation with the performing arts department of the Universidad del Valle, or the concert commemorating the centenary of the death of Claude Debussy on the life and work of the master and impressionism, where he directed and he acted at the same time as a soloist have been some of these projects.
He has conducted and performed as a soloist alongside artists linked to the most important institutions such as the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Opera, the Grammy Awards, Harvard University, the Forthworth Symphony, the Copenhagen Philharmonic, Spanish Radio and Television, the Tchaikovsky Competition and Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, among others.
As an arranger, he has premiered his own works, including orchestrations of 8 lieder by Franz Schubert for tenor and chamber orchestra, and his arrangements “Sweet Christmas” and “The Holy Season” for solo tenor, choir and large orchestra and Christmas Fantasy and Christmas Bells for choir and orchestra have been highly successful. He also has a national award for composition.
Important to her career and training has been her study under the particular guidance of her teacher and mentor, the Italian clarinetist and conductor Francesco Belli, who in turn studied with Franco Ferrara and Sergiu Celibidache, as well as her studies in harmony and analysis with Professor Svetlana Bouchtaber, Summa Cum Laude of the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory in St. Petersburg.
For several years he was principal clarinet soloist in the Cali Philharmonic Orchestra, he has participated as guest principal clarinetist in the National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia and the City of London Orchestra, his invitations as soloist in two editions of the International Classical Music Festival of Cartagena, his performances in New York City and Connecticut with the label “Musical Arts Alliance” and his performances as a soloist in Germany with the Ensamble D’accord. In the summer of 2021 he was invited to play at the Steingraeber chamber hall in Bayreuth, one of the European capitals of classical music, as well as to tour different German cities. He has performed as a soloist with orchestra most of the major concertos in the clarinet repertoire as well as the most important chamber music pieces.
Uribe was a professor at the Antonio María Valencia Conservatory in Cali for five years, and a professor at the music department at the Universidad del Valle for ten years.
