EUBO violas

Daniel Lorenzo Cuesta was born in Salamanca and studied there at the Professional and Higher Conservatories, graduating with the highest honours. He continued his studies at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid where he was ranked outstanding in the chamber music department for two successive years. His extensive performing experience ranges from early music - he has worked with Manfredo Kraemer, Wim Ten Have, Pedro Gandía, Mira Glodeanu, Itziar Atutx - to classical and contemporary music. Daniel has played with ensembles including Le Concert des Nations, Al Ayre Español, The Rare Fruits Council, Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla, Alchemica Musica, Musica Ficta, Forma Antiqva, Orquesta Barroca de la Universidad de Salamanca and Xacona. He now combines performances with various ensembles and orchestras with his job as a teacher at the Professional Conservatory of Burgos.

Aliye Cornish completed her undergraduate degree at the Royal College of Music, London in July 2008 and has a scholarship on the Royal Academy of Music MA course in 2008/2009. She was a member of the European Union Baroque Orchestra in 2007, with whom she toured extensively round Europe and recorded a CD, as well as appearing on television and radio in several countries. She has also worked recently with the Classical Opera Company, Britten-Pears Baroque Orchestra, Britten-Pears Orchestra and the Symphony and Baroque orchestras of the Royal College of Music. A keen chamber musician, she has performed recently with her early music ensemble Ducere Clarino in the National Gallery, London and Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. She has also received a nomination for Young Achiever of the Year at the Asian Women of Achievement Awards 2008. She is delighted to be involved with the European Union Baroque Orchestra this year.

Miriam Macaia was born in Tomar, Portugal in 1985 and began her musical studies aged five. In 2004, after finishing her studies in modern violin at the Conservatório de Música do Porto with Suzanna Lidegran, she started to study baroque violin with Amandine Beyer at Escola Superior de Música e das Artes do Espectáculo do Porto. Since then she has performed with several orchestras including Orquestra Barroca Casa da Música, Ensemble Baroque de Limoges, The Sixteen, Orquestra Barroca Divino Sospiro, and with musicians such as Chiara Banchini; Alfredo Bernardini; Amandine Beyer; Fabio Biondi; Christophe Coin; Harry Christophers; Laurence Cummings, Jaap ter Linden; Christina Pluhar and Luis Otavio Santos. She freelances on both baroque violin and viola with various ensembles including the Lisbon-based baroque orchestra Divino Sospiro, director Enrico Onofri, and Orquestra Barroca da Casa da Música in Porto.

María Ramírez was born in Sevilla, Spain, where she started her musical studies as violinist. Since 2004 she has been studying viola at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London supported by a scholarship from the Spanish Government. She began to orient her life towards the early performance field when in 2003 she performed in the Religious Music Festival in Cuenca, Spain with the Spanish National Youth Orchestra, conducted by Fabio Biondi. She has also played in the Britten Pears Baroque Orchestra and is currently a member of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment experience scheme. Since 2006 she has been studying baroque viola with Jane Rogers and has taken masterclasses with Rachel Podger, Oliver Webber and Richard Gwilt. She is co-founder and soloist of the Spanish baroque ensemble Temperamento. In 2008/9 Maria will continue her studies with a Master Degree at GSMD.