Uruguay

Gervasio Tarragona Valli Clarinet Montevideo, Uruguay In 2008, Gervasio Tarragona Valli was awarded First Prize at the National Youth Soloists Contest of Jeunesses Musicales – Uruguay. He has since performed as soloist with Uruguay National Orchestra (SODRE), Camerata de Montevideo Orchestra, Youth Orchestra of the Ministry of Culture, Montevideo Symphonic Band, and Simón Bolívar Symphonic Band (Caracas, Venezuela), under the direction of Nicolas Rauss, Thomas Herzog, Miguel Pose, Gabriel Giró, Daniel Hasaj, Paolo Rigolín and Jesús Pérez Perazzo, among others. He received his Diploma in Clarinet Performance at Montevideo Conservatory where he studied with Gisella Hernández. He continued his studies under scholarship by the National Foundation of Music in Argentina with Carlos Céspedes, and later in the Latin American Clarinet Academy (Caracas, Venezuela) with Valdemar Rodríguez, Jorge Montilla and Carmen Borregales. He has been part of the Youth Orchestras System of Venezuela. He has assisted clarinet masterclasses with Walter Seyfarth, Markus Forrer, Evgeny Petrov, Harry Sparnaay, Alain Damiens, Luis Rossi, Francisco Antonio García, Mariano Rey, Ovanir Buosi, Cristiano Alves and Martín Castillos and Guillermo Marín. He has also taken masterclasses on baroque repertoire with Juan Manuel Quintana, Elizabeth Blumenstock and Manfredo Kraemer. Since 2009 he has been member of Montevideo Symphonic Band, being the youngest musician of this orchestra. In 2010, he performed the complete works for clarinet by Brahms for the chamber music season of the National Orchestra, which was broadcast nation-wide. He has represented Uruguay at the First Patagonia International Clarinet Festival (Neuquén, Argentina, 2010), where he has given masterclasses and recitals with works by twentieth and twenty-first century composers. Recently, he has been invited to play as soloist and teach children in the youth orchestras of Neuquén and Bahía Blanca, in Argentina. He has been focusing on composing and performing contemporary music, with an interest in the connections between poetry and music. Gervasio is founder of the Montevideo International Clarinet Meeting, a prestigious international festival in Montevideo that brings together world acclaimed clarinet players and other musicians each year, under the artistic direction of Swiss clarinet master Markus Forrer. Gervasio plays Rossi hand-made clarinets (courtesy of the National Foundation of Music of Uruguay).

Gervasio Tarragona Valli
Clarinet
Montevideo, Uruguay

In 2008, Gervasio Tarragona Valli was awarded First Prize at the National Youth Soloists Contest of Jeunesses Musicales – Uruguay. He has since performed as soloist with Uruguay National Orchestra (SODRE), Camerata de Montevideo Orchestra, Youth Orchestra of the Ministry of Culture, Montevideo Symphonic Band, and Simón Bolívar Symphonic Band (Caracas, Venezuela), under the direction of Nicolas Rauss, Thomas Herzog, Miguel Pose, Gabriel Giró, Daniel Hasaj, Paolo Rigolín and Jesús Pérez Perazzo, among others.

He received his Diploma in Clarinet Performance at Montevideo Conservatory where he studied with Gisella Hernández. He continued his studies under scholarship by the National Foundation of Music in Argentina with Carlos Céspedes, and later in the Latin American Clarinet Academy (Caracas, Venezuela) with Valdemar Rodríguez, Jorge Montilla and Carmen Borregales. He has been part of the Youth Orchestras System of Venezuela.

He has assisted clarinet masterclasses with Walter Seyfarth, Markus Forrer, Evgeny Petrov, Harry Sparnaay, Alain Damiens, Luis Rossi, Francisco Antonio García, Mariano Rey, Ovanir Buosi, Cristiano Alves and Martín Castillos and Guillermo Marín. He has also taken masterclasses on baroque repertoire with Juan Manuel Quintana, Elizabeth Blumenstock and Manfredo Kraemer.

Since 2009 he has been member of Montevideo Symphonic Band, being the youngest musician of this orchestra. In 2010, he performed the complete works for clarinet by Brahms for the chamber music season of the National Orchestra, which was broadcast nation-wide.

He has represented Uruguay at the First Patagonia International Clarinet Festival (Neuquén, Argentina, 2010), where he has given masterclasses and recitals with works by twentieth and twenty-first century composers. Recently, he has been invited to play as soloist and teach children in the youth orchestras of Neuquén and Bahía Blanca, in Argentina. He has been focusing on composing and performing contemporary music, with an interest in the connections between poetry and music.

Gervasio is founder of the Montevideo International Clarinet Meeting, a prestigious international festival in Montevideo that brings together world acclaimed clarinet players and other musicians each year, under the artistic direction of Swiss clarinet master Markus Forrer. Gervasio plays Rossi hand-made clarinets (courtesy of the National Foundation of Music of Uruguay).

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