Camila Barrientos
Clarinet
Bolivia

Born in Cochabamba, Bolivia Camila started playing the clarinet at the age of 10 under the guidance of trumpetist Edward Wolf. Camila is very involved in music education as well as performance and is looking forward to a career that successfully combines both.  She has performed under the batons of Gustavo Dudamel, Phillipe Entremont, and Valery Gergiev among others; and in concert halls that range  from New York’s Carnegie Hall to  the Vatican in Rome and Martadero in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Currently living in New York City, Camila is a student of Mark Nuccio at the Manhattan School of Music where she is a recipient of the Carla-Bossio Cornelli Scholarship for the Master of Music degree program.

Karin Cuellar
Violin
Bolivia

Karin Andrea Cuellar Rendon started playing the violin at the age of 10 in the Fine Arts Superior Institute of Music in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, with the violin teacher Carmen Luisa Blanco.

At the age of 19 she joined the National Symphonic Orchestra of Bolivia, and has played in orchestras such as CAF Youth Orchestra of the Andean Countries, Youth Orchestra of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Argentinean Camerata and Youth Orchestra of the Americas where she is a member since 2005.

She has taken violin lessons from Carmen Luisa Blanco, Carlos Cifuentes and Yvonne Lam among others; has performed in places like Carnegie Hall in New York, San Peter's Basilica in The Vatican and Teatro Colon in Argentina, to name a few, under the baton of conductors such as Gustavo Dudamel, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Valery Gergiev and Helthmund Rilling. 

Since a young age she has been very involved in orchestral education, either in her country as abroad, and is a strong believer of the transforming power of music.

With a large music path traveled already, and striving on finding highest level music education in her native country Bolivia, she decided to move to New Jersey, United States, on 2010 fall where she will pursue a Performance Bachelor in Music degree in John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University, as a Ravinia Talent Grant Scholarship recipient.