FACULTY,STAFF & Advisory Board – Nueva Escuela Argentina de Arpa

FACULTY, STAFF & Advisory Board

Faculty

Oscar Rodríguez Do Campo, Professor Emeritus – President.

Level of teaching: Graduate, Postgraduate professional harpists.

Oscar Rodríguez Do Campo (Argentina/Portugal) is a Harp Professor resident in Buenos Aires city. He is a graduate of the Alberto Ginastera Conservatory, -Buenos Aires Province- (Higher Education Prof. of Harp + Bachelor in Harp Teaching, with Honours) and a graduate of Argentina´s National University of the Arts (Bachelor of Music in Harp Performance), with summa cum laude Honours.

He is harp professor at three different institutions: at The Celia Torrá Music School – University of Entre Ríos https://fhaycs-uader.edu.ar/escuelas-fhaycs/musica-celia-torra , at the DAMUs Department of Musical and Sound Arts, National University of the Arts https://musicalesysonoras.una.edu.ar/ , and at the Nueva Escuela Argentina de Arpa NGO and Music School (https://www.facebook.com/nuevaescuela.argentinadearpa.7 and https://www.youtube.com/c/NUEVAESCUELAARGENTINADEARPA) which he founded several years ago and eventually expanded to Brazil.

He is also the World Harp Congress Correspondent in Argentina https://worldharpcongress.com/correspondents/ , an arranger, researcher and pedagogue, and he has formed so far four generations of Argentinean and international harpists helping them out to overcome technical problems, methodological and interpretative issues.

Oscar Rodriguez Do Campo studied in France with harp legend Marielle Nordmann and later on he became her disciple. He has developed his own integral-comprehensive harp method involving diverse advanced and professional techniques for a healthy playing and for improving sound quality, being the “Professional Scales Technique Book for Harp 2023” Edition by EDamus Publications https://harpcolumn.com/music/all-music/artists/oscar-rodriguez-do-campo/the-professional-scales/ the first part of his work and also his first official international publication followed by “The Aguirre Collection” https://www.harp.com/product/the-aguirre-collection-lhs/ by LHS Publications as well.

Born in the late 50´s in Buenos Aires at the heart of a Portuguese family to eventually become a Portuguese and Brazilian citizen as well, Rodríguez Do Campo first began studying the Paraguayan folk harp as a teenager, before discovering the pedal harp a few years later. He began studying with maestros Quintín Irala (harp), Lara Bareiro and Cattaruzzi (music) and then he continued his studies with Prof. Elena Carfi (harp) and Prof. María Esther Moro (harp) before heading to Paris.

He acted as a member of the Teatro Colón Orchestra as a soloist in 1989 and then in 1990 he became the first Argentinean to represent his country in the «4^th World Harp Congress» in Paris. He was awarded scholarships by organizations such as «Buenos Aires Musical Festivals» and «Friends of Lily Laskine» to study in France with Madame Nordmann in 1990.

Rodríguez Do Campo also received a scholarship to study Spanish music at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) with maestro Nicanor Zabaleta. After his return to Argentina he became a harp professor at the National Superior Institute of Art of Rio Negro province in Patagonia –currently known as IUPA https://iupa.edu.ar/sitio/ – where he taught for several years.

Nowadays, he tours the world offering mainly Masterclasses, Courses and Private lessons in Universities, Music Conservatories and other musical institutions, associations and Embassies in many countries in Latin America, North America, Europe and Asia. He also acted as a sponsor of the International Harp Contest in Israel, he offers HausKonzerts at his private residence in Buenos Aires and he organizes every year in September the “Buenos Aires Harp Week” (Festival).

Among other institutions, he has offered Masterclasses at the Rimsky Korsakov Conservatory in Saint Petersburg, Russia, within the 2nd. and of the 3rd. International Harp Competitions «Golden Harp«, at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in Venice, with Professor Elisabetta Ghebbioni, Italy, at the Regional Conservatory of Nice, France, with Professor Agnes Berard, at the Cabañas Institute of Jalisco, Mexico with professor Santiago Morales, at the Zeneakademia (Academy Ferenc Listz and Bartok Bela Academy of Music, Budapest), at the Josef Hellmesberger Institut fur Streichinstrumente, Gitarre a Harfe of the Universitat fur Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, and at the Franz Schubert Musikschule during the “Vienna Harp Days” by Elizabeth Plank. He has been also hosted at the Music Department of the Haifa University, among many other institutes or academies in Venezuela, Mexico, Brazil (UFMG Universidad Federal Minas Gerais with professor Marcelo Penido), and the United States (under the sponsorship of MetroHarp, the AHS American Harp Society New York and Connecticut-Northeast chapters). He has also been Member of the Jury in many competitions in Argentina, France, Mexico and Italy and Guest of Honor in the Bloomington Harp Contest, Indiana, USA.

He has also published his first open source – free Ebook Arpas Sin Fronteras / Harps without frontiers on 12 interviews to 12 world-class harp professors for the world. https://musicalesysonoras.una.edu.ar/noticias/edamus-presenta-arpas-sin-fronteras-de-oscar-rodriguez-do-campo_32642

His works as a transcriber, arranger and fingerer includes pieces from the XVII and XVIII century by Spanish Harpsichordists, Argentinean and Latin-American national, classical, folklore, tango and popular music, and he also edited Henry Purcell´s “Three Parts Upon a Ground” Z. 731 as a “4 -Fantasia for Harp Quartet” along Mara Diniello.

His famous «Method of the New Argentinean Harp School» is the result of more than thirty years of working- experience forming harpists both in the Republic of Argentina and Latin America, as well as offering masterclasses abroad. During these decades he has identified, evaluated and systemized difficulties and problems that he had repeatedly observed in his students and professional harpists worldwide. The Method focuses in the need to have all fingers working together in a uniform, natural and balanced way mastering this technique in order to achieve clear, precise and harmonious performances, avoiding playing tensely harming hands, elbows and shoulders.

Mara Diniello, Professor of Harp and Artistic Director.

Level of teaching: Intermediate, Graduate, Postgraduate professional harpists.

Mara was born in Patagonia, Argentina, from where she built her booming international career full of worlwide success. She began her musical studies at the Instituto Nacional Superior de Artes (now IUPA) and she also has a degree in Musical Arts (bachelor in Harp Performance), obtaining the highest qualification awarded by the National University of the Arts (UNA) under the guidance of Maestro Rodríguez Do Campo.

On her other facet, Mara is also a National Public Calligrapher, licensed in the provinces of Río Negro and Neuquén, graduated from the Department of Legal Sciences from the Universidad del Salvador at Buenos Aires, Argentina.

After that, she established for a year in California in the United States, and then she continued her studies with Prof. Rodríguez Do Campo and attended masterclasses with outstanding harp professors such as the French legend Marielle Nordmann, Carol Mc Laughlin, Susann McDonald and Magdalena Barrera Oro among many others.

She worked as a professor in charge of the Harp Chair at the I.U.P.A. (Patagonic University Institute of the Arts), selected int that position by audition by the Maestros Antonio Russo and Mario Videla while recieving national recognition from the Association of Argentine harpists for her role as a professor (1997-2004).

She then settled in the city of Cipolletti in Patagonia, from where she develops an intense musical activity, as a performer and professor, in festivals, meetings and Seminars that lead her to perform in various cities in the country and abroad. She teams up with several contemporary composers to expand the repertoire for the harp.

She participated as a member of the jury -harp-, in the First Contest for Young Instrumentalists «Province of Neuquén», held in the Neuquén Symphony Orchestra Auditorium (2006).

She appeared as a soloist with the Río Negro Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Martin Freires, the Río Negro Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Fabrizio Danei and on several occasions with the Neuquén Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Reinaldo Labrín, Luis Corrado, Nicholas Rauss, Pablo Sobrino, Andrés Tolcachir and Emir Saúl.

Since 2020 she is the Artistic Director of the New Argentinean Harp School funded by Maestro Rodríguez Do Campo. She is part of the Organizing Committee of the «Buenos Aires Harp Week» and she works tirelessly alongside composers, providing work spaces and stimulating the production of new works in response to the need to expand the national repertoire.

She actively participated in the ENARP (National Harpists Encounter) held in Buenos Aires (1992), San Juan (2001), La Plata (2000), Mar del Plata (2001) and Córdoba (2007) and in the “V Harp Interpretation Seminar”, offered by Marielle Nordmann (France) and Prof. Oscar Rodríguez Do Campo at the Swedish Church of Buenos Aires and organized by Music Festivals (1995). She also took part in several events inlcluding: Seminar – Workshop, «Musical Education at the end of the millennium» by Prof. Violeta H. De Gainza at the National University of Comahue in Neuquén city (1999), Chhamber Music with Maestro Lerko Spiller, at the General Roca National Higher Institute of Arts (1997-1998), at the «VII Harp Seminar», as an active student, by Prof. Marielle Nordmann (Paris), organized by Music Festivals in the province of San Juan, Argentina (2001) and she atended to Masterclasses offered by harp legend Susan Mc Donald at the University of Bloomington, Indiana, United States (2001), Masterclass and courses on neurolinguistics applied to performing arts, by Carrol Mc Laughlin (Arizona-USA), in Mar del Plata, Argentina. She also atended to the “II Conference on methodological updating”, in Mar del Plata (2002), to Masterclasses by harpist Werner Karlinger (Austria) in 2006, to the «VI National Meeting of Harpists and IV Conference on Methodological Update», in Córdoba (2007), and took the Course «Io suono l’arpa» by Professor Gabriella Bosio (Italy) among many others.

Mara Diniello also took Advanced courses given by Magdalena Barrera Oro, in Barcelona, Spain (2007) and participated at the Llao Musical Week Series in 2005, 2012 and 2013, 2022, in Bariloche. Internationaly, she also performed in the “38 Musical Week» of Frutillar, Chile and at the III RioHarp Festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at the Latin American Harp Meeting 2015 in Lima, Perú, and at the FIMUCA 2020, Brazil.

She also co-organized the I Federal Conference on Harp Curriculum Update in Argentina and the I and II Patagonian Harp Meetings at the Music School of Neuquén (2017- 2018). She also engaged with the Astor Piazzolla Free Chair, offered by the Department of Educational Technology of the IUPA (2020), she also took part of the “Latin America in Focus” Special Series at the 7th. Buenos Aires Harp Week in 2021 organized by the New Argentinean Harp School.

Mara had and active role during the II Federal Conference on Curriculum Update organized by the Harp Chair of the Department of Musical and Sound Arts of the National University of the Arts (2021), and got involved at the “Training meeting for teaching and instrumental development, Technique and musical repertoire” organized by the National Symphony Orchestra (2021). She also undertook the “Management Tools for cultural entrepreneurs” Seminar (May – June 2021) organized by the Ministry of Cultures, the PyME Center – ADENEU of Neuquén.

Felipe Martini, harpist. Assistant Harp Teacher.

Level of teaching: Intermediate and beginners.

Felipe was born in the city of General Roca, Río Negro province, Argentina, and began his studies at the Patagonian University Institute of the Arts with Prof. Mariela De Caro. Later he continues his studies at the National University of the Arts in Buenos Aires, with Prof. Oscar Rodríguez Do Campo. He has received scholarships from the Argentine Mozarteum, the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Argentinean Harp School. He has been awarded at the 1st Ibero-American Harp Contest in 2014 and offered recitals in Brazil, Peru and Mexico. He currently holds the position of Harp Soloist in the Bahía Blanca Symphony Orchestra from the province of Buenos Aires and is assistant professor of harp to Maestro Oscar Rodriguez Do Campo at the DAMus-UNA.

Sandra Esquivel Lezcano, harpist. Assistant Harp Teacher.

Level of teaching: beginners.

Sandra Esquivel Lezcano was born in Asunción, Paraguay. She began her music studies at the age of 12 at the National Conservatory of Music in Asuncion. She continued her studies at the National University of Asunción where she obtained her Bachelor of Popular Music with focus in Paraguayan Harp, from the Department of Architecture, Design and Art. At the same time she completed a Bachelor of Musical Arts with orientation in Classical Harp at the National University of Arts of Argentina, with Master Oscar Rodríguez Do Campo.

María Suárez, Composer, Singer and Guitarrist. Professor of Composition.

Level of teaching: Intermediate, Graduate, Postgraduate professional harpists. Other instruments.

María was born in the city of La Plata, Buenos Aires province and is a member of the Argentine Association of Composers. She is an arranger for the Río Negro Province Philharmonic Orchestra in Argentina. She is a graduate in classical guitar at both the Gilardo Gilardi Conservatory of Music and at the Bachelor of Beaux Arts at La Plata city, having graduated with a degree in clasical guitar. She is also a Professor in Music Composition graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the National University of La Plata.

She is one of the emerging composers with the greatest projection in the Argentine and Latin American scene. Its aesthetic brings together languages of tradition and modernity with a look that combines academic music (romanticism -impressionism -contemporary) with nuances and evocations within a sound world inhabited by jazz, tango and the folkloric roots and music of Southamerican indigenous peoples.

She received the First Prize “Ibero-American Composers 2020” from the Iberorquestas organization for her symphonic-choral work “Kushe Papai” in tribute to the grandmothers of the Mapuche community, an award that was awarded by the Minister of Culture of the Nation Tristán Bauer.

Since 2020, she has been part of the “almasonora” harp and singing project with harpist Mara Diniello and in 2022 she offered masterclasses at the Postgraduate Certificate in Harp Performance and Research at the Music Department, National University of the Arts, Argentina. She released the albums «Río Madre» and «Fabulario» and composed music for theater, TV, chamber music and orchestra. In 2023 she received the prestigious Radio Nacional Clásica award as “Breakthrough Composer” for the compositional quality of her works.

Gabriel Telles de Mello, harpist, composer. Assistant Composition and Harp Teacher.

Level of teaching: beginners.

Gabriel was born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, began his musical studies at 8 playing the guitar, and at 18 he began taking music theory, perception, music history and conducting classes with Prof. Gustavo Bracher. After that he took his Bachelor of Music (Harp performance) at the Minas Gerais Federal University under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Marcelo Penido.

He had masterclasses and private lessons with well known harpists such as Alexander Boldachev, Chantal Mathieu, Baltazar Juárez and Oscar Rodríguez Do Campo among others. Since 2019 he dedicates himself to composing for the pedal harp in different formations (including harp concerto), but also for other instruments in several genres.

Staff

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Advisory Board.

Lucrecia Jancsa, harpist

Harp Soloist at the Argentinean National Symphony Orchestra. Harp Professor at the Manuel de Falla Music Conservatory of the Buenos Aires city. Member of the Board of Directors of the World Harp Congress and member of the Luminar Trio.

In 2022 she represented Argentina and South America at the World Harp Congress in Cardiff. Her career includes concerts as a soloist and in chamber music ensembles with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Teatro Colón Philharmonic, the Montevideo Philharmonic, and the Camerata Bariloche, among many others. She had collaborations with top tier ensembles and orchestras around the world, such as the Dresden Philharmonic and the Israel Philharmonic directed by Zubin Mehta. She participated in very important national and international festivals in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, Perú, Spain, France, Portugal, Italy and England. World renowned established Argentine composers have dedicate many pieces to her. Her discography also includes classical, contemporary and popular repertoire and she has been awarded the prestigious KONEX Prize in 2009 and a member of the Grand Jury at the 2019 Konex Classical Music Awards.

Carolina Varvará, harpist.

Harp Professor, graduated from the “Julián Aguirre” Music Conservatory of the Province of Buenos Aires and from the National University of the Arts (UNA) in Argentina. Se has taken numerous Masterclasses with renowned international harp masters and continued her studies with Maestro Oscar Rodríguez Do Campo in Buenos Aires.

She has been Harp Soloist of the Salta Symphony Orchestra of Argentina since 2006. She is a founding teacher of the first official pedal harp chairs in the Northern provinces of Argentina (in the Children/Youth Symphony Orchestra and in the University School of Music from the province of Salta). She was a stable Harp Soloist of the SODRE Symphony Orchestra and of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Montevideo both at Uruguay, and a guest soloist in several orchestras in Argentina (Córdoba, Rosario, Mar del Plata, Tucumán, National Symphony and Stable Orchestra of the Theater Colon).

She has actively participated in the Buenos Aires Harp Week and currently organizes the Harp Week in Salta (Argentina) with the aim of developing the teaching and training of professional harpists in the north of the country.

Gabriela Russo, harpist.

Harp Soloist at the Córdoba Symphony Orchestra, Professor of Harp at the “Félix T. Garzón” Music Conservatory, Cordoba Provincial University, and trainees teacher at the Cordoba Libertador Theatre´s Youth Academic Orchestra.

Born in Córdoba, Argentina, she has studied with Clelia Mertens, Marielle Nordmann, Mario Falcao, Sarah Bullen and Oscar Rodríguez Do Campo.

She has performed with the «Sinfonietta de Paris», the «Orpheus» at Bulgaria, the «Arthur Rubinstein» National Symphony Orchestra of Lodz, Poland; the S.O.D.R.E. Orchestra from Uruguay, the “Philomúsica” in Paraguay, the Symphony Orchestra of Porto Alegre, Brazil, the Symphonic Orchestra «Carlos Chávez» from Mexico, the Buenos Aires Philharmonic, at the Teatro Colón, etc. All through her life she has performed in Paris, London, Athens, Sofia, Prague and Vienna among many other countries. She regulary performs as a soloist, in chamber music ensembles and with orchestras alike. She plays pieces from Argentinean and contemporary composers and has also participated in the World Harp Congresses held in Denmark, the Czech Republic and Australia. For more about her go to: www.gabrielarusso.com

Soon

Mariela De Caro, harpist.

Maryen González, harpist.

Baltazar Juárez, harpist.

PROFESORES

Oscar Rodríguez Do Campo, Profesor de Arpa y Presidente.

O.R.D.C. es un profesor de arpa de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Es arreglador de folklore, música latinoamericana y música clásica, investigador, pedagogo y el corresponsal en Argentina del World Harp Congress (Congreso Mundial de Arpa). Es Profesor Superior de Arpa por el Conservatorio Alberto Ginastera de la Provincia de Buenos Aires y Licenciado en Artes Musicales orientación Arpa por la Universidad Nacional de las Artes, egresado con la máxima calificación y el reconocimiento académico “Suma Cum Laude”.

Es titular de la cátedra de arpa en la Escuela de Musica Celia Torrá de Concepción del Uruguay (Universidad Autónoma de Entre Ríos) y en el Departamento de Artes Musicales y Sonoras de la Universidad Nacional de las Artes de la República Argentina en grado y en posgrado. También es profesor de arpa y fundador de la Nueva Escuela Argentina de Arpa, como “escuela” o “schola”, o método de enseñanza pedagógico original, donde da clases particulares. Organiza anualmente HausKonzerts y la “Semana del Arpa de Buenos Aires” (festival pedagógico).

Encabeza la tercera generación de profesores-arpistas de la República Argentina, que tiene como principal exponente a Augusto Sebastiani en la primera generación y a María Esther Moro en la segunda. Nacido en Argentina en el corazón de una familia portuguesa, comenzó estudiando el arpa paraguaya a los 16 años de edad con los maestros Quintín Irala (arpa) y Lara Bareiro (música), antes de descubrir el arpa de pedales. Luego continuó sus estudios de arpa clásica con la profesora María Esther Moro en el Conservatorio de la Lucila (Provincia de Buenos Aires) y con la profesora Elena Carfi en el Conservatorio Alberto Ginastera (Provincia de Buenos Aires), donde se graduó con los más altos honores.

Fue contratado por la orquesta estable del Teatro Colón como arpista asistente solista 1989 y en 1990 se convirtió en el primer argentino en representar a su país en el «IV Congreso Mundial de Arpa» en París-Sèvres, Francia. Fue becado por las asociaciones «Festivales Musicales» y «Amigos de Lily Laskine», para estudiar en Paris con la leyenda del arpa Marielle Nordmann de la cual a la postre terminarían convirtiéndose en su discípulo, en palabras de la propia Nordmann. También recibió una beca para estudiar música española en la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela con el maestro Nicanor Zabaleta y también se desempeñó como profesor de arpa del Instituto Superior Nacional de Arte de la provincia de Río Negro.

Ha representado a la Argentina en numerosas ocasiones en el extranjero y ha sido jurado en competiciones nacionales e internacionales y también ha sido invitado a ofrecer clases privadas, clases magistrales y cursos en muchos países. Ha sido invitado como Miembro del Jurado en los concursos de Arpa Marcel Tournier de Cosenza, Italia (2019) y Arles, Francia (1999), entre otros.

Viaja internacionalmente con la música de Argentina y de otros compositores latinoamericanos e internacionales por todo el mundo, enseñando su propio método y técnica para tocar el arpa, ofreciendo clases magistrales en más de veinte países de América del Sur y Norteamérica, Europa y Asia. Ha ayudado a cientos de estudiantes y profesionales a superar dificultades técnicas, de aprendizaje, ejecución e interpretación.

Ha sido invitado o Huésped de Honor en distintas Escuelas y Universidades como el Conservatorio Rimsky Korsakov en San Petersburgo, Rusia, en el marco del Segundo y Tercer Concurso Internacional de arpa «GoldenHarp», en la Julliard School con la profesora Nancy Allen, en Bloomington, Indiana, en el Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello de Venecia, Italia, en la Catedra de la Profesora Elisabetta Ghebbioni (2012), en el Conservatorio Regional de Niza, Francia, en la Catedra de la profesora Agnes Berard (2014), en el Instituto de Cabañas de Jalisco, México, en la Academia Zeneakademia (Academia Ferenc Listz y Bartok Bela Academy of Music de Budapest), Hungría (2017), en los Viena Harp Days de Elizabeth Plank, en la Josef Hellmesberger Institut fur Streichinstrumente, Gitarre a Harfe de la Universitat fur Musik und darstellende Kunst (2017), y en la Franz Schubert Musikschule (2017), en la Universidad Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, en la Catedra del profesor Marcelo Penido (2014) y en la universidad de Haifa y en el Concurso Internacional de Arpa de Israel. También ha dado masterclasses y clases privadas en muchos otros institutos o academias en Venezuela, México, Brasil y los Estados Unidos, en este caso bajo el patrocinio de MetroHarp, los capítulos de la AHS American Harp Society de New York y Connecticut (2018).