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Jeanzem Eli Salazar Marcano 

 Artistic Director 

Orchestra conductor, composer and violinist Jeanzem Salazar, who has over thirty years of artistic experience, is motivated by the fact that music is able to reach the deepest depths of the human soul, inspiring and transforming it. Born into a family of musicians, he took his first artistic steps at a very early age as a singer at festivals and received seven national and regional awards in Venezuela and two productions as a soloist. In 2008 he began his studies at the Latin American Violin Academy and two years later he obtained a permanent position as a violinist in the renowned Simon Bolivar Orchestra conducted by Maestro Gustavo Dudamel, with whom he performed throughout Europe and Latin America under guest conductors such as Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Krzysztof Penderecki, Bruno Mantovani, Rafael Payare, Giancarlo Guerare, Diego Matheuz, Christian Vásquez and accompanied soloists like Nicola Benedetti, Itzhak Perlman, Alisa Weilerstein and many more. Because of his belief in the power of music to transform lives, El Sistema Salazar invited him for three months as assistant conductor of the Mariuccia Iacovino and David Machado Orchestra organized by the non-governmental organization Orquestando a Vida in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. to provide access to art for people in communities who do not have access to it. In 2015 he began his professional studies as an orchestra conductor in Caracas with Professor Teresa Hernandez and had the opportunity to appear as a guest conductor with various orchestras in the country. Since discovering his passion for conducting, he has attended master classes in Venezuela and Spain with the cultural association Con Forza, with maestros Cesar Iván Lara, Eduardo Marturet, Alfredo Rugeles and Francisco Navarro Lara. Since his arrival in Vienna in 2018 he has given concerts as a violinist with the Vienna Mozart Orchestra, Vienna Imperial Philharmonic and the Hungarian Chamber Philharmonic, with whom he has performed in the most important theaters in Germany, Geneva, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Italy, New Siberia and in the beautiful city of Oradea in Romania. He is currently taking lessons from Christian Schulz at the Richard Wagner Conservatory in Vienna, where he is deepening his professional training as a conductor and also gaining new musical experience as a member of the Vienna Male Choir. In 2021, following the global pandemic of COVID 19, he devoted even more time and energy to spreading his message through music, convinced of its power to convey freedom and peace, and so he founded the International Sinfonietta Wien, of which he is chief conductor.  

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