Guanajuato, Gto., March 8, 2017.- Anayantzi Oropeza Silva is a violist of the Symphony Orchestra of the University of Guanajuato (OSUG) and literally owes her life to music, hence, every day she plays the viola with impetus and passion.

How can music be a salvation facing adversity? Outside the therapeutic and emotional power music has to heal human beings, Anayantzi was saved of greater sequels due to a stroke.

Since the early age of 3, she began studying violin and viola, --throughout two years—she could develop a thicker cerebral cortex, reason why she survived the stroke. "This is because many musicians make several activities at the same time (reading, motricity and interpretation) and the cortex thickens and protects the brain", she said.

Anayantzi describes music as a salvation and her work as a violist as an opportunity to share the beauty of the instrument with the audience. She's been a member of OSUG for some years now, a group that has allowed her to develop professionally and create new projects, such is the case of the "International Quartet", an ensemble composed by musicians of the university's orchestra.

Next Friday March 10, there will be a second concert of the program "OSUG Soloists"; this time will have the participation of the "International Quartet", same that will offer a concert filled with sublimity by playing music of consecrated composers as Franz Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven and Dmitri Shostakovich.

Anayantzi commented that "the concert will be held in the General Auditorium of UG at 20:30hrs. We will play a very interesting repertoire, integrated by the pieces: Quarter for string in D major, op. 64 no. 5, Hob.III-63 best known as "La Alondra" of Haydn. Then, we'll continue with the Quarter for strings in C major, op. 18 no.4 of Beethoven and will finish with Quartet for strings in F major, no. 3, op. 73 of Shostakovich."

She remarked that "the International Quartet pretends to present in different parts of the state, always representing OSUG, with the purpose to make a fine and delicate work regarding music and technical".

The "International Quartet" is composed by Dimitri Kisselev is first violin, who is from Moscow, Russia. He graduated from the Chaikovski Conservatory of Moscow in 1989 in violin and in 1999, won the place as concertino od the Symphonic Orchestra of the University of Guanajuato.

Andrea Alvarado plays the second violin, she is from Guanajuato, began studying at an early age with teachers Rosario Aguinaco Flores and Djamilia Rovinskaia.

She graduated from Music and Humanities baccalaureate, as well as the from degree in Violin at the Conservatory de las Rosas under the direction of the teacher Gellya Dubrova.

Bruno Mente in the violoncello. He is from Chastre, Belgium, where he began his studies of violoncello at an early age with the teacher Myriam Bultinck. Afterwards, he was a student of Claude Giampellegrini in the Municipal Conservatory of the City of Luxembourg and Prof. Justus Grimm in the Conservatory Real Flamenco of Amberes (Belgium), where he obtained the academic degree of Master of Arts in 2011.

Anayantzi Oropeza Silva in the viola is from the city of Xalapa, Veracruz. She began studying at the age of 3 with the teacher Lorena Silva Olivares and then entered the Children's Center of Musical Initiation of the Universidad Veracruzana (1992-996) in the violin class with the teacher Luis Rodrigo García Gama.

She is a graduate from the Faculty of Music of the Universidad Veracruzana as graduate in Music with option in Violin under the direction of Agnieszka Maklakiewicz. She made her master degree in Viola at the Conservatory Real de Amberes.

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