San Simón Fiddle

Master of the violin e-Trad. With more than 17 years of experience in specialized violin teaching folk. He taught Galician violin workshops in Canada, Scotland, Brittany, Barcelona etc… For the second consecutive year he was requested by Alasdair Fraser to teach violin lessons at his prestigious “SIERRA FIDDLE”, in California. He holds the Professional Degree in Violin and the USC Graduate Course in Traditional Music. He has great experience in organizing events, courses, workshops, etc.. Regular collaborator of the North Atlantic Fiddle Convention where he presented several presentations on the traditional Galician violin. He is patron of the foundation “SondeSeu”and responsible for the violin section of his Orchestra.

Multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, he began his musical studies at age 8, betwen from the Superior Conservatory of Music of Vigo, whith his father Suso Pereira and the Popular Galician Workshop Instruments directed by Antón Corral, playing the bagpipe, zanfona, violin , soprano saxophone and flute. He was a member of the groups “Matto Congrio”, “Berrogüetto” and was the founder “Lizgairo”, with Rodrigo Romaní and Xosé Liz. He was part of bagpipes groups as “Alfolíes”, “Xarabal” and the Didactic Group of Popular Musical Instruments Galician.
He has collaborated with musicians and groups such as Milladoiro, The Chieftains, Los Piratas, Rodrigo Romaní, Susana Seivane, Uxía, among others. Artistic producer of the “Riobó” and “Rústica” projects with Cristina Pato, Davide Salvado and Roberto Comesaña, as a composer in 2018 he published Suite “San Martiño” on the “SondeSeu” album, Beiralúa, signed the music of the Entresoños dance show, and several instrumental pieces for groups from all parts of the world. Forerunner of a technique for learning and interpretation in the zanfona of the traditional Galician repertoire, he is currently the standard of the SondeSeu Foundation, and combines his work as a zanfona teacher of the E-Trad (Municipal School of Folk and Traditional Music of Vigo) with the coordinator of the zanfonas section of “SondeSeu”

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Begoña is a well established and respected violinist of the Galician folk scene and is professor of Celtic harp in the municipal school of Vigo Folk and traditional music E-Trad. She has a degree in the History of Art from the USC, studied classical violin with Natalia Solltan, celtic harp with Rodrigo Romaní and hurdy gurdy with Anxo Pintos. She has also participated in numerous folk violin courses with Alfonso Franco, Jacky Molard, Darol Anger, Alasdair Fraser and many others. She began her professional career in 2000 as a member of Carlos Nuñez´s band, stepping onto stages and performing at festivals throughout the five continents and playing with leading figures of the folk scene such as The Chieftains, Dan Ar Braz, Solas or Sharon Shannon. She is a member of SondeSeu, Folk Orchestra of Galicia, and has collaborated on the tours of artists such as: Lizgairo, Anxo Lorenzo, Susana Seivane and Xosé Manuel Budiño among others. She led her own group, ‘Riobó’ from 2010 until its dissolution in 2017, with which she recorded two albums: “Riobó” (Zouma 2010) and “Quiral” (Sul 2015). She holds courses on the teaching of violin in the field of traditional music, and her participation in “Crisol de Cuerda” Fiddle Camp directed by Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Hass should be noted.

Musicologist who combines his artistic activity with regular teaching. He is currently working on the analysis of the microtonal scales used by blind violinists in the northwestern peninsula. Classically trained, it is in e-Trad that he approaches traditional music. As an instrumentalist he is part of groups such as Ghaveta, “SondeSeu” and the duo Cego do Souto and Marta de Manueliño. He has collaborated with groups such as Lagharteiras and Kerkennai among others. He coordinates several traditional violin classes around Vigo and is in a constant process of learning from Masters such as Alfonso Franco, Alasdair Fraser, Oriol Saña…

Teresa is a primary education teacher. She specialises in traditional singing and vocal technique. She is also a free-time activities monitor for FORCEM and has completed studies in the E-Trad school in Vigo in singing, percussion and hurdy gurdy. She has worked professionally with her voice since 1987, when she became a dubbing actress for the first films and series of Galician television (TVG). This is a profession that she continues to practice today. She is a founding member of the “SondeSeu” Folk Orchestra, with which she has recorded four albums, and also was one of the founders of the traditional music group Tanxedoras, which has just released its second album (Padre Música). Besides singing, she plays various instruments such as tambourine, pandeira, spoons, side drum, tarrañolas, tambourine …

Formed in classical violin at the Conservatory of Redondela with professor Natalia Soltan, she came into contact with traditional Galician music since her childhood in the Soutomaior Dance and Pandereteras Group. Graduated in Physiotherapy and with a Master’s degree in Musicology (Hispanic Music) at the University of Salamanca, she developed part of her professional career in various functional reeducation centers in France. He currently combines his work as a physiotherapist with the advanced degree of folk violin in the “SondeSeu” de Vigo with maestro Alfonso Franco, being also a violinist of the Folk SondeSeu Orchestra. Also, she is about to finish his studies in Primary Education in the specialty of music.

Comeza os seus estudos de guitarra con Xosé  Liz na Escola de música Tradicional de Vigo E-Trad (2012) onde se introduce á afinación  dadgad e comeza a súa formación no Folk e a música tradicional galega. Ese mesmo ano, asiste ao Sierra Fiddle Camp ( California) como alumno e entra en contacto coa música escocesa e irlandesa. Participou e colaborou con Alfonso Franco en varios proxectos por China, México, Costa Rica, tanto en  workshops como en concertos. Cofundador do grupo DADGA (2015) co que participou en NAFCO 2018 Aberdeen (Escocia) presentando o seu primeiro traballo discográfico. Colaborou en distintos cursos e  camps envorcados no ensino da música tradicional (Tropical Fiddle), pero tamén noutros grupos como Entre Trastes.

Técnico Superior en Dietética. Dende fai dúas edicións encárgase das dietas especiais e do control de alerxenos. Forma parte da organización do San Simón Fiddle dende a súa creación, sendo a responsable do grupo de iniciación ao violín. Foi a súa experiencia neste campamento o que a fixo comezar os seus estudos de violín folk na E-Trad de Vigo, onde actualmente cursa canto e pandeireta. Compaxina estes estudos cos do “Grado en Música” da Universidad de la Rioja (UNIR). Participou en numerosos cursos e masterclass de artistas internacionais. Paralelamente os seus estudos participa na escena folk en DADGA.

Graduada en bioloxía e violinista de formación clásica. Comeza os seus estudos en Mayeusis, onde recibe o título profesional de música e continúa na E-Trad estudando violín folk co mestre Alfonso Franco. Integrante da Orquestra Folk “SondeSeu” e do cuarteto “DADGA”, formacións coas que participou no Celtic Connections (Glasgow, 2019) e North Atlantic Fiddle Convention (Aberdeen, 2018). Asistiu ao Barcelona Fiddle Congress (2016, 2018) recibindo aulas de Casey Driessen, Darol Anger, Oriol Saña, Martín Melendez… Tamén participou en numerosas master class con artistas internacionais e peninsulares.

Violinista de formación clásica, entra en contacto coa música tradicional a través deste curso de verán no que participou como alumna nas dúas primeiras edicións. Foi a súa experiencia no San Simón Fiddle o que a fixo interesarse polo mundo da música tradicional, comezando así os seus estudos de violín folk con Alfonso Franco na E-Trad de Vigo, onde rematou o grao avanzado en Xuño de 2018. Ten recibido cursos e masterclass de diversas artistas internacionais, tendo así un amplo abanico de influencias. Actualmente está a cursar o Grao Superior en Pedagoxía Xeral e da Linguaxe Musical no CSM de Vigo. Ademais, está a participar de maneira activa na escena folkformando parte de diversos proxectos como: OFG “SondeSeu”, DADGA ou Caldo.