ELENA URIOSTE began her violin studies in Philadelphia and made her debut as soloist with the
Philadelphia Orchestra at age thirteen as winner of the Albert M. Greenfield Competition. Since then,
she has appeared as soloist with major orchestras throughout the United States including the Cleveland
Orchestra, Boston Pops, National Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and
Hartford Symphonies, as well as Hungary's Orchestra Dohnanyi Budafok, garnering critical acclaim for
her commanding stage presence, rich tone, and the nuanced lyricism of her playing.
Miss Urioste made her Carnegie Hall debut as a featured soloist in the December 2004 Sphinx Gala Concert,
and has returned as a soloist in the 2006 and 2007 Galas. She has performed in recital at Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall
as the youngest musician ever selected for the Young Performers Career Advancement Showcase. Miss Urioste has
collaborated with acclaimed artists David Kim, Philadelphia Orchestra concertmaster; pianists Christopher O'Riley
and Ignat Solzhenitsyn; and conductors Robert Spano, Keith Lockhart, and Shlomo Mintz, among others. She has been
a featured artist in the International Young Artists Music Festival, the Kingston Chamber Music Festival, the Sarasota
and Aspen Music Festivals, as well as the Festival International de Musique in Sion, Switzerland.
Miss Urioste is the 2007 first prize winner of the Sion International Violin Competition, where she was also awarded
the audience prize and the prize for the best performance of the competition's newly commissioned work. She has won
both the senior (2007) and junior (2003) divisions of the national Sphinx Competition, as well as the Kennett Symphony
Concerto Competition and the Temple University Music Prep Concerto Competition. Miss Urioste's media appearances
include performances on national broadcasts of the popular public radio programs From the Top and Performance Today,
and the Spanish language television network, Telemundo. She has been the featured guest on the radio program Anything
is Possible, and is also featured in the Emmy award winning documentary Breaking the Sound Barrier, on the cover of the
January, 2006 issue of Careers and Colleges magazine, and in the Winter 2007 issue of Philadelphia Music Makers magazine.
Miss Urioste is a student at The Curtis Institute of Music where she has studied for the past four years with Joseph Silverstein
and Ida Kavafian, and will continue to study this year with Mr. Silverstein and Pamela Frank. Other notable teachers include
David Cerone and the late Rafael Druian. She is the past recipient of a Starling Foundation Scholarship at Temple University
Music Preparatory Center for Gifted Young Musicians in Philadelphia, where she was a student of Choong-Jin Chang and
Soovin Kim.
The outstanding violin being used by Miss Urioste is a Michelangelo Bergonzi, Cremona, circa 1750, on extended loan
through the generous efforts of Society for Strings, Inc., Meadowmount School of Music, from the private collection of
Dr. Charles E. King.