Final Round of the 5th Annual Lois Trester Piano Competition.
$Free Admission
More information:
https://keyboard.music.arizona.edu/trester
Guest Artist Biographies
Born in Patagonia, Argentina, Ms. Daniela Salinas has studied at Santa Cruz Conservatory of
Music, the National University of La Plata, and the JPC School of Music of Barcelona. She owes
her training to great pianists including Luiz de Moura Castro, Jun Kanno, Roberto Bravo,
Ludovica Mosca and Alexander Panizza.
With a vast repertoire, Daniela has sustained a keen interest in Latin American and Post-
Romantic music. She is a remarkable exponent of Tango and other Latin dance music. As a
soloist and as an active chamber music player, she has performed in the main venues in
Argentina as well as in countries from America and Europe, including Spain, France, Portugal,
Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and the USA.
She has performed the first Yellow Lounge in Latin America, premiering the Deutsche
Grammophon CD “Pocket Symphonies” by Sven Helbig.
Daniela Salinas has created and curated a series of concerts in Argentina called “Entre músicas”
which combine Jazz and Classical music. She is also a founder member and part of Piano Rojo
Project – an organization which promotes new ways of performance bringing modernity into
classical music traditions.
Daniela’s performances have been broadcast on several radios and TV programs from
Argentina and Chile, including Argentine National Classic FM, Arpeggio TV, and Magallanes
University TV.
A devoted teacher, Daniela is a guest artist for master classes in several universities and schools
of music in America. She currently holds the position of professor of piano at the National
Superior Conservatory of Buenos Aires.
Among the chamber music formations she works with, it is worth mentioning the outstanding
duet formed in 2011 along the prestigious violist Adrián Felizia – soloist of Teatro Colón
Orchestra and violist of the Petrus Quartet. Their programs combine original pieces with
transcriptions allowing for a fresh perspective of well-known works.
Oscar Macchioni, a native of Argentina, is an accomplished solo and collaborative pianist,
professor, lecturer, author, and adjudicator. Critics have praised his clarity of lines, tone quality,
expressive phrasing, and the amiable way he presents his programs.
Oscar has performed extensively in his native Argentina, Italy, England, Poland, Serbia, Turkey,
Mexico, and the USA, at notable locations such as Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Teacher’s
College at Columbia University, Steinway Hall, St Martin in the Fields and James’s Piccadilly in
London, the Querceto International Piano Festival in Italy, and the National Conservatory in
Argentina. His live performance in the esteemed Myra Hess Memorial Concerts at the Chicago
Cultural Center has been broadcast on radio and television. His programs include an eclectic
repertoire from Bach and Brahms to Piazzolla and Bolcom. He is an assiduous performer of
classical Latin American repertoire.
A dedicated teacher and mentor, Dr. Macchioni is much in demand as an adjudicator at various
state, national, and international piano competitions and festivals, including the Bangkok
International Chopin Competition, the European Piano Teachers Association, Piano
Examinations Committee of Taiwan, MTNA, and the International Keyboard Odyssiad and
Festival among others. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Borderland Chopin
International Competition and Festival. His lecture-recitals and presentations at international
conferences have received numerous accolades, including the Outstanding Musical
Presentation at Second International Vernacular Conference in Puebla, Mexico and Diploma of
Excellence at the European Piano Teachers Association, World Piano Conference in Serbia.
His book, The Tango in American Piano Music, was published in 2010 by the College Music
Society’s Cultural Expressions in Music series. His debut CD, Mostly Tangos: Piano Music from
the Americas, has been released with favorable reviews by Eroica Classical Records. Centaur
Records released his albums, Piazzolla da Camera and Latin American Duos. He has published
articles on a variety of piano literature and piano pedagogy topics in the American Teacher
Magazine, Piano Pedagogy Forum, and Piano Inspires. He has been featured in Piano: La Lettre
du Musicien (France), Piano Education Page (USA), and various music magazines, radio, and T.V.
programs.
In 2015, Oscar received the most prestigious University of Texas System teaching award, the
“Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award”, and in 2019, he was inducted into the “UTEP Academy
of Distinguished Teachers.” He has been sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution of
Washington, D.C. (graduate researcher), the Polish Government, the Organization of American
States, and the Leschetizky Association of New York. He received the Music Teachers National
Association “StAr Award” and was named Distinguished Graduate Student by the University
of Arizona. He is a recipient of several grants, most recently the Texas Commission on the Arts
through the El Paso Museums and Cultural Affairs Department, to perform concerts in
underserved communities. He studied piano at the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán
(Argentina), the Krakow Academy of Music (Poland), Louisiana State University, and the
University of Arizona (USA). Oscar is a tenured Associate Professor of Piano Pedagogy at the
University of North Texas College of Music. Previously, he was a full tenured Professor of Piano,
Assistant Chair, and Keyboard Area Coordinator at the University of Texas at El Paso, where he
held the Bonnie Brooks Professorship in Music. Oscar Macchioni is a Steinway Artist.