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US-born violinist Elena Urioste is a former BBC New Generation Artist, who has performed with major orchestras throughout America and internationally. Co-founder with her husband, the British pianist and composer Tom Poster, of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective in 2017, she is also a committed chamber musician and artistic director of Chamber Music by the Sea, an annual festival in Maryland, US. During the pandemic, she and Poster launched #UriPosteJukeBox<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 daily videos streamed over 88 consecutive days of lockdown, including six new commissions.<\/p>\n Urioste was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in April 1986, but grew up in Lansdale, Philadelphia. Her father is of Basque and Mexican heritage, and her mother is Sicilian, Russian and Hungarian.<\/p>\n Urioste\u2019s parents enjoyed classical music but were not musicians themselves. At the age of two, she saw violinist Itzhak Perlman\u2019s appearance on Sesame Street and asked her parents for a violin. Three years later, when Urioste was five, they allowed her to begin Suzuki violin lessons through her school\u2019s stringed instrument programme. Shortly thereafter, she began studying privately and made fast progress, appearing as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the age of 13.<\/p>\n Urioste is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard School. Her teachers and mentors include Joseph Silverstein, David Cerone, Ida Kavafian, Pamela Frank, Claude Frank, Choong-Jin Chang, Soovin Kim and Ferenc Rados.<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div> <\/section> Urioste took top prizes in the junior and senior Sphinx Competition for young players of minority backgrounds, which led to her debut at Carnegie Hall, New York in 2004 and to the release of an album on the White Pine label in 2008. She also performed at New York\u2019s Lincoln Center in 2009, and was awarded a Salon de Virtuosi career grant. She was named a BBC New Generation Artist from 2012-14.<\/p>\n In 2016 Urioste founded the annual Chamber Music by the Sea festival in Berlin, Maryland, and in 2017 she and pianist Tom Poster founded the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, a flexible ensemble of diverse musicians, which in 2020 became the Wigmore Hall\u2019s new Associate Ensemble.<\/p>\n She and Poster have recorded several albums together for BIS, Chandos and Orchid Classics. In April 2022 they were awarded BBC Music Magazine\u2019s Premiere Award<\/a><\/strong> for The Jukebox Album<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, based on their 2020 #UriPosteJukeBox lockdown project, for which the pair had shared a new video online daily for 88 consecutive days, including six new commissions.<\/p>\nWhen and where was Elena Urioste born?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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