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Fabiola Ojeda

Cello Performer and Educator

"There is no spiritual life without music, for the human soul has regions which can be illuminated only by music." -                                                                            Zoltan Kodaly

The Chilean cellist Fabiola Ojeda is a versatile performer on modern and period instruments in a historically informed style, a devoted chamber musician, and a cello instructor. 

She has been awarded the 1st Prize at Chilean Young Talent Competition, the 1st Prize at Atlanta Cello Society Young Artists Competition, and Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now in Germany.

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During her time of studies in the United States, she was a former assistant at Georgia State University in Atlantaand a member of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra. Later on in Germany, she was also an assistant at Julius Stern Institute (University of the Arts - Berlin), and worked as a cello teacher at the School of Music and Arts-Bielefeld. On the other hand, she also served at the Symphony Orchestra of Münster Theatre.

 

Based in Athens-Greece since 2009, Fabiola has worked as Principal Cellist at the Chamber Orchestra of the National Opera (Children's Opera), collaborated in concerts and recordings with Baroque Orchestra "Armonia Atenea," and performed with different baroque ensembles appearing at Spring Organ Festival Series in Athens, Hydra Classical Music FestivalThessaloniki Concert HallAthens Baroque Festival, Athens Concert Hall, and "Alternative Stage" of Stavros Niarchos Foundation.

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On the other hand, as an active contemporary music performer, she has worked with Greek composers Calliope Tsoupaki, Periklis Liakakis, Nikos Mamangakis, Nikos Kypourgos, Giorgos Kouroupos, George Tsontakis, and Theodore Antoniou. Moreover, since the year 2014 and under the patronage of the Chilean Government, she began working with the Chilean composer Luis Saglie, bringing to Greece the projects "Tribute to Pablo Neruda"  and “Tribute to Violeta Parra."

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Fabiola has participated in masterclasses' with Professors Anatoly Krastev, Maria Kliegel, Collin Carr, Antonio Meneses, and Jaap ter Linden. She was a former student of Professor Martha Gerchefski, in Atlanta; Marcio Carneiro at Musikhochschule Detmold and Matias Pinto at Musikhochschule Münster.

In Athens, she teaches at  Kòdaly Conservatory. 

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