Mariana Alandia
pianist
Mariana Alandia Navajas (Tarija) is a Bolivian classical pianist who interpreted most of the 20th century Bolivian classical composers.
Biography
Mariana Navajas Alandia began her piano studies with the teachers Mario Estensoro and Sarah Ismael. Further studies with Miguel Angel Quesada in Costa Rica, and later chamber music with Ramiro Soriano Arce at the National Conservatory of Music in La Paz, Bolivia, where she completed a piano degree. Corsi di perfezionamento musicale at the Academy G. Curci with Hector Pell (Rome) and Academia Chigiana, (Siena). Concerts in Bolivia, Italy, Austria and Peru. Her interpretations of the Bolivian composers are based on researches into Bolivian music history.
Texts
Piano music of Eduardo Caba, Humberto Viscarra Monje, Marvin Sandi, Alberto Villapando, and Florencio Pozadas:
Alandia, Mariana y Parrado, Javier. 2003 „A la vera del Piano“: T'inzakos, Revista Boliviana de Ciencias Sociales cuatrimestral del Programa de Investigación Estratégica en Bolivia (PIEB). Número 14 Juni 2003
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