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Berta Rojas is one of today's leading guitar figures. She was praised by the Washington Post as "guitarist extraordinaire" and by Classical Guitar Magazine as "Ambassador of the classical guitar".

Her album Legado (2022) was awarded two Latin Grammy Awards in the category Best Classical Album, and for the work Anido's Portrait, written for the album by Sergio Assad, which won the statuette for Best Contemporary Classical Work. Berta has been nominated on three other occasions for the Latin Grammy, in the category of Best Tango Album, for her album Historia del Tango (2015), recorded with Camerata Bariloche, in the category of Best Classical Album, for her album Salsa Roja (2014), and in the category of Best Instrumental Album for her album Día y Medio - A Day and a Half, a duet with Paquito D'Rivera (2012).

Berta Rojas is listed as one of the most influential women in the Hispanic world by the EFE agency in 2014, and by EsGlobal in 2017. She has been distinguished as a Fellow of the Americas by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for her artistic excellence, and honored in her country with the title of Illustrious Ambassador of Musical Art. In 2015 she was awarded the Orden Nacional al Mérito Comuneros, and the title of Doctor honoris causa by two national universities. In 2017, in recognition of her outstanding contribution to culture, she received the National Order of Merit Don José Falcón and the Carlos Colombino Award.

Producer and Music Director Producer, conductor, composer, arranger and pianist. His main field of work is the intersection between Latin American popular music and orchestral and chamber music. From 1988 to 2009, he worked with Mercedes Sosa as pianist, arranger, director and producer, touring and performing in the main stages of the world.

Producer, director and arranger of Cantora and Deja la vida volar, both Latin Grammy award-winning CDs. He has also performed numerous concerts and projects as arranger and director of symphonic organizations in Argentina. Producer of recording projects with Chango Spasiuk, Ligia Piro, Nahuel Pennisi, among others.

Violinist, Pianist, Conductor, Composer and Musical Arranger. Maestro Luis Alvarez is a musical director and arranger of great value, but he is also one of the best violinists of recent times in an instrument that characterizes the expression of his feelings at its highest level.

In 1983 he began his career as an arranger of Popular Music, in which he worked with the most important interpreters of Paraguayan music, such as: Vocal Dos, Ñamandu, Lizza Bogado, Grupo Generación, Grupo Surgente, Perla, Jorge Castro, Grupo Contrapunto, Juan Cancio Barreto, Horacio Guarany, Oscar Gómez, among others. He won the 2001 National Music Award granted by the National Congress.

In recent times he has worked as an arranger for most of the national artists and groups. He is currently a member of the group La Retroband and is working with his daughter, flutist Patricia Álvarez, in the production of various phonographic materials and large-scale musical shows.

An architect by profession, she began her activity in the world of visual communication during her university studies, developing graphics for student movements, civic education and the struggle against the dictatorship.

In 1994 she created "Celeste Prieto Diseño", her current company, where she develops visual communication works at national and international level. In 2000 she is selected to be one of the 22 designers in the world who present their work related to their social, political, religious and economic environment in the book and exhibition "Graphic designers around the world" in the "Month of graphic design in Echirolles", in France where she is recognized by the French press as "the newcomer to the world graphic design scene".

Member of the Advisory Committee of the Iberoamerican Design Biennial based in Madrid, Spain. Jury in poster biennials in Mexico, Bolivia and international contests. His work is published in leading editions of international graphic design as "Latin American Graphic Design of the Editorial TASCHEN, "120 posters from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century" Biennial Edition of Mexico and magazines in America and Europe.

Born in 1952 in Asunción, where he lives and works. He is an architect, engraver, painter, graphic designer and cultural promoter. He has studied in Paraguay, Spain and Argentina. He is the director of the Museo del Barro, of which he is the founder.

He has participated in numerous exhibitions inside and outside the country. He has won awards in graphic design, painting and cultural promotion. He has been decorated by the governments of Italy and Argentina in recognition of his career. His work is represented in museums and collections in Spain, Iraq, USA, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Brazil, Colombia and Paraguay. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship/2004 for research in the field of his visual production.

Producer and Music Director Producer, conductor, composer, arranger and pianist. His main field of work is the intersection between Latin American popular music and orchestral and chamber music. From 1988 to 2009, he worked with Mercedes Sosa as pianist, arranger, director and producer, touring and performing in the main stages of the world.

Producer, director and arranger of Cantora and Deja la vida volar, both Latin Grammy award-winning CDs. He has also performed numerous concerts and projects as arranger and director of symphonic organizations in Argentina. Producer of recording projects with Chango Spasiuk, Ligia Piro, Nahuel Pennisi, among others.

He is an Argentine musician, singer, guitarist and composer. He has released twelve albums, "Juan Quintero", as a soloist, "Aca Seca Trío", "Avenido" and "Ventanas", with Andrés Beeuwsaert and Mariano Cantero, "Juan Quintero-Luna Monti", "El matecito de las siete", "Lila", "Diez años" and "Después de usted" with singer Luna Monti, "Amigo", with Edgardo Cardozo, "Cartas al rey de la cabina" with Luis Pescetti and "Hermanos", with Aca Seca and the Diego Schissi Quintet.

He played with Mercedes Sosa, Juan Falú, Raúl Carnota, Jorge Fandermole, León Gieco, Ivan Lins, Carlos Aguirre, Liliana Herrero and Luis Pescetti, among others. He has received numerous awards, among them: Folklore Revelation (La Nación Newspaper, 2002), Folklore Revelation (Clarín Newspaper, 2003), Atahualpa Folklore Revelation Award (Government of the City of Buenos Aires), Platinum Konex Award, Aca Seca Trio, 2015, Outstanding Personality of the Culture of the City of Buenos Aires.

Victor Heredia is an artist deeply committed to the struggle for human rights and democracies in the continent. His work shows a constant coherence in his vocation for the defense of peace, freedoms and collective rights. He was decorated by the Chilean government of Michelle Bachelet with the Salvador Allende medal for his commitment to democracies and his outstanding help to Chilean exiles during Pinochet's military dictatorship. His songs are messages of peace and solidarity among all the peoples of the planet.

His album "Víctor Heredia canta a Pablo Neruda" (1973) and his songs, which were part of the "Movimiento del Nuevo cancionero" together with Mercedes Sosa and other greats of Argentine music, meant exile, censorship and persecution by the Argentine de facto government. Victor helped build the headquarters of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo with Joan Manuel Serrat in a memorable concert, collaborated with the Guayasamin Foundation in the construction of "La capilla del hombre" with Silvio Rodriguez, Joaquin Sabina, Mercedes Sosa, Piero and other committed artists.

Three-time winner of the Silver Seagull at the Viña del Mar Festival and the Golden Lyre in 2010, Platinum Konex Award for best composer of the decade, Medal for Educational and Cultural Merit awarded by the Colombian Government in Medellin, Medal for Educational and Cultural Merit for his work Indigenista Taki-Ongoy awarded by the Argentine Ministry of Education, Medalla de Oro al Mérito en la orden de Caballero, otorgada por el Gobierno de Ecuador, Medalla Salvador Allende otorgada por el gobierno de Michelle Bachelet, Doctor Honoris Causa entregado por la Universidad de Medicina de Chile, Doctor Honoris Causa otorgada por la Universidad de Salta, Doctor honoris causa de la Universidad de Cuyo, Doctor Honoris Causa por la Universidad Autónoma de Entre Ríos, Medalla Dr. Mauricio López Medal awarded by the University of San Luis. He is an Illustrious Citizen of the city of Buenos Aires.

Bilingual poet (Guarani-Spanish), translator, lecturer, teacher and journalist. He is a professor of Guarani and holds a degree in Modern Means of Social Communication from the Catholic University. He won first prize in the young poetry contests of the Instituto de Cultura Hispánica, Asunción, in 1977 and 1979.

He published "La sangre insurrecta" (poetry); "Folclore paraguayo" (prose); "Las voces de la memoria, Historias de canciones populares paraguayas (ten volumes); Carlos Miguel Jiménez, el poeta de la patria soñada; Carlos Federico Abente, el sembrador de poesía and "A flor de ausencia/Ñe'ê apytere" (Poetry). He won by competition a place to join the Academy of the Guarani Language.

He worked at the radio stations Chaco Boreal, Primero de Marzo and Cáritas, in Asunción, as well as at the newspapers La Tribuna and Hoy. He was in charge of the Arts and Entertainment area, Opinion Editor and editorialist of the newspaper Última Hora.

She began her artistic career in 1981, winning the prize for best soloist at the Ypacaraí Festival, Paraguay's main folk festival. In 1985 she represented Paraguay at the Iberoamerican Song Festival (OTI) in Seville, Spain and at the 1992 Universal Exposition held in the same city of the aforementioned country. In 1985, she won the trophy "Recuerdos de Ypacaraí" by unanimous decision of the jury and in 1993 the prize for the best soloist at the International Song Festival, held in Quito, Ecuador.

Lizza Bogado has a varied discography and more than 30 years performing on stages in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, United States, Sweden, Spain, Belgium, Russia and Egypt, being the first Paraguayan composer to perform in the Alexandria and Cairo Operas. She has performed on radio and television channels in all the above-mentioned countries, promoting the art and culture of Paraguay.

In June 2020 she was distinguished with the "Maestra del Arte" award, the highest distinction that the Centro Cultural de la República El Cabildo, an extension of the National Congress, grants annually in recognition of years of creative work and cultural management.

Born in São Paulo in 1971, Monica Salmaso began her career in the play "O Concílio do Amor", directed by award-winning director Gabriel Villela in 1989. In 1995, she recorded the Cd AFRO-SAMBAS, a voice and guitar duet arranged and produced by guitarist Paulo Bellinati, containing all the afro-sambas composed by Baden Powell and Vinícius de Moraes. Her albums TRAMPOLIM and VOADEIRA were released in European countries, Japan, United States, Canada and Mexico.

She participated in the cd "Carioca" by Chico Buarque singing the song "Imagina" by Chico Buarque and Tom Jobim; and in the cd "Tantas Marés" by Edu Lobo, singing the song "Primeira Cantiga" by Edu Lobo and Paulo César Pinheiro. He also participated in the movie "Vinícius" about the life and work of Vinícius de Moraes, directed by Miguel Faria Jr.

In 2012, she won the 23rd Brazilian Music Award as best singer with the CD Alma Lírica Brasileira. In 2020 and 2021, during the pandemic, she created the Ô DE CASAS project with more than 150 virtual meetings with other Brazilian and foreign artists, musicians and composers posted on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube.

Violinist, Pianist, Conductor, Composer and Musical Arranger. Maestro Luis Alvarez is a musical director and arranger of great value, but he is also one of the best violinists of recent times in an instrument that characterizes the expression of his feelings at its highest level.

In 1983 he began his career as an arranger of Popular Music, in which he worked with the most important interpreters of Paraguayan music, such as: Vocal Dos, Ñamandu, Lizza Bogado, Grupo Generación, Grupo Surgente, Perla, Jorge Castro, Grupo Contrapunto, Juan Cancio Barreto, Horacio Guarany, Oscar Gómez, among others. He won the 2001 National Music Award granted by the National Congress.

In recent times he has worked as an arranger for most of the national artists and groups. He is currently a member of the group La Retroband and is working with his daughter, flutist Patricia Álvarez, in the production of various phonographic materials and large-scale musical shows.

Composer, pianist and Doctor of Music, Nancy Luzko's music is rooted in the classical-contemporary style, with influences from musical elements such as Latin American rhythms and jazz. Her music has been heard on stages in Europe, Asia and America. As a pianist she has performed numerous concerts both solo and with orchestra, captivating audiences in countries such as USA, Canada, Poland, Austria, Spain, Argentina and Paraguay, among others. She has received praiseworthy reviews, among them the American newspaper The Washington Post highlights among other comments: "Luzko wrapped the notes with honesty and integrity," "Ravel's Sonatina, fresh and invigorating, stood out for the maturity in the phrasing and linear clarity that Nancy put into the music..." "She made the arrangements sparkle with colorful touches...".

Nancy Luzko began her musical studies in her hometown Encarnación, Paraguay. She then moved to Warsaw, Poland, where she specialized in piano. She later took up residence in the United States, where she obtained a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Kansas, a Master of Music degree from Florida International University, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Miami.

In recent years Nancy has conducted extensive research on the piano music of Paraguay, which resulted in the published Annotated Bibliography of Paraguayan Music for Piano. Her album "Piano Works - Obras para Piano", a compilation of works composed and performed by herself, was released in the United States in 2009 with notable success. In 2010 she composed the music for the ballet "Madame Lynch" with her brother Daniel, a work commissioned by the Ballet Municipal de Asunción for the celebration of Paraguay's Bicentennial.

Her latest work called Padre Nuestro is sung in three languages: Spanish, English, and Guarani, in which she had the privilege of working with internationally renowned singer Carla Vanessa. Nancy has served as an adjunct professor in the music department at Florida International University in Miami, as well as at the Miami Conservatory of Music.

He began her piano studies at the age of 5 with his grandfather, the bandoneonist and composer, César Medina.

He continued his piano and music education studies at the Ateneo Paraguayo, and later, at the Conservatory of Music of the Catholic University, where he teaches Musical Language since 2006. She has also been teaching this subject at the National Conservatory of Music for more than 20 years.

In addition to teaching, she works in the coordination of educational projects with the team of classical guitarist Berta Rojas.