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Paloma Friedhoff and Pablo Rioja

Paloma Friedhoff Bello is a soprano, winner of several international awards in Madrid, Washington DC, Lisbon, Barcelona and Logroño. Her main interest and activity is focused on the world of song, oratorio and symphonic repertoire, although she has recently worked on soundtracks and recordings for all kinds of projects (composers, choirs, short films, series, commercials). In May 2022 he sang and recorded the role of Bubaste in the revival in modern times of the opera The Nitteti by Nicolò Conforto, closing the CNDM's Universo Barroco cycle at the Auditorio Nacional, with the Nereydas orchestra and its conductor Javier Ulises Illán. In 2021, together with the Orquesta Nacional de España conducted by Jordi Francés, he sang Stravinsky's Pulcinella. Since 2019 she has been touring Spain as a soprano soloist with the Film Symphony Orchestra, singing works by Ennio Morricone, John Williams and Hans Zimmer. She maintains an active career in chamber music, singing at early music and contemporary music festivals in Spain, as well as recitals with piano, vihuela, baroque guitar and classical guitar. 

Pablo Rioja is a tenured professor at the Centro Integrado de Enseñanza Musical Federico Moreno Torroba. He has given recitals in numerous national and international venues, such as the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid; the Abu Khater Auditorium in Beirut; the Carzou Foundation in Manosque (France); the Festival Le Bois qui Chante in Château d'Oex (Switzerland); Messukeskus in Helsinki (Finland); the Cervantes Institutes in Marrakech, Tangier and Lebanon; Spanish Embassies in Malta, Lisbon, Ukraine, Namibia, Gabon, Nigeria, etc....He has made live recordings for Spanish National Radio, Swiss Radio Television, Moroccan Radio Television and Lebanese Television. He has also recorded two CDs for the label “Eudora Records”: one with the guitar duo L'Encouragement together with Herminia Navarro and the other with the violin and guitar duo Animacorde together with Andrés Ortiz. 

 

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