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Berta Rojas, (born September 23, 1966) is a Paraguayan classical guitarist. In 2012 she was nominated for ''Best Instrumental Album'' in the Latin Grammys for her album "Día y Medio (A Day and a Half)" which she recorded with Paquito D’Rivera. For her album "Salsa Roja (Red Sauce)", She was nominated at the 2014 Latin Grammy Awards, in the category of ''Best Classical Album''. She got her 3rd nomination on 2015, for her album "History of Tango", which she recorded with the iconic Camerata Bariloche, for Best Tango Album. == Background and education == Known for her expressivity and innate musical talents, Berta Rojas was praised for having “introduced a new dimension in the emotional reaches of the instrument,” according to El País newspaper in 1991. Since then she has gone on to build an international career and is currently recognized as one of the top guitarists of the modern era. She was lauded by the Washington Post as a “guitarist extraordinaire” and by Classical Guitar Magazine as “ambassador of the classical guitar.” She began her first music lessons with guitarist Emiliano Aiub Riveros. She then studied guitar briefly with Carlos Vázquez, and later initiated her formal education in classical guitar at age 10 under the instruction of Felipe Sosa and Violeta de Mestral. While studying with Sosa and de Mestral, she obtained the title of Senior Professor of Classical Guitar. At the same time, she also studied piano with Rosa Mereles de López and obtained the title of Senior Professor of Piano from Jorge Báez Conservatory. Rojas moved to Uruguay in 1986 to continue her studies with Uruguayan professor Abel Carlevaro. There she enrolled in the Escuela Universitaria de Música (Universidad de la República), where she obtained a Bachelor of Music in Classical Guitar, studying under guitarist Eduardo Fernández and Mario Paysée. In 1996, Rojas was named a Fellow of the Americas by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for her artistic excellence.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.kennedy-center.org/explorer/artists/?entity_id=9814&source_type=B. )〕 This recognition helped her acquire the means to continue her formal education in the United States. That same year, she began graduate studies at the Peabody Institute. In 1997 she received a scholarship from the Organization of American States which financed her remaining studies. She received a Master of Music from Peabody Institute under the instruction of Manuel Barrueco.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/conservatory/faculty/barrueco/ )〕 She also studied with Ray Chester.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/conservatory/faculty/chester/ )〕 In 2000, Rojas received her Graduate Performance Diploma, studying with Manuel Barrueco and Julian Gray.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/conservatory/faculty/gray/ )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Berta Rojas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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