Enion PeltaViolinist, singer, and composer Enion Pelta-Tiller is a musical free spirit who moves fluently and fluidly through jazz, bluegrass, Brazilian music, and anything else she can get her hands on. Long known as one of the creative forces behind celebrated progressive folk group Taarka, with whom she has released 8 studio albums, she is also in demand as an improvising fiddler by groups at forefront of the national bluegrass and jazz scenes, and leads her own folk-jazz fusion group. Pelta-Tiller was recently a featured soloist with the Boulder Philharmonic, playing the music of Ornette Coleman and Darol Anger...
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Enion PeltaViolinist, singer, and composer Enion Pelta-Tiller is a musical free spirit who moves fluently and fluidly through jazz, bluegrass, Brazilian music, and anything else she can get her hands on. Long known as one of the creative forces behind celebrated progressive folk group Taarka, with whom she has released 8 studio albums, she is also in demand as an improvising fiddler by groups at forefront of the national bluegrass and jazz scenes, and leads her own folk-jazz fusion group. Pelta-Tiller was recently a featured soloist with the Boulder Philharmonic, playing the music of Ornette Coleman and Darol Anger. Music has taken her all over the globe, from the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and China Television Station Studios in Shenzhen, China to Tiny Desk in Washington, DC and Red Rocks in Morrison, Colorado, to perform with artists as diverse as Linda Ronstadt, Ron Miles and John Cowan. She is an endorsement artist for D’Addario Orchestral, Acoustic Electric Strings, and Grace Designs. Pelta-Tiller is highly sought after as an educator, teaching at fiddle camps and music schools around the world, including Mark O’Connor’s Strings Conference and the Escola de Musica Folk e Tradicional in Vigo, Spain, as well closer to home, at the University of Colorado in Boulder and in Denver. She trained classically at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the Peabody Institute in Baltimore and holds a Masters’ degree in jazz from CU Boulder. Victor MestasVictor Mestas was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, and studied at the “J. A. Lamas” School of Music with Carmen Moleiro. He is an endorsement artist for YAMAHA keyboards in Venezuela (2001) and his professional background includes more than 100 recording productions for national and internationally renowned artists.Mestas has performed as a pianist, keyboardist and arranger for renowned bands in Latin America and Venezuela including Guaco and Trabuco Venezolano. He has also accompanied an array of world-renowned singers including Soledad Bravo, Cheo Feliciano and Julio Iglesias’ 2010 Tour in Uruguay and Argentina. He moved to Boulder five years ago with his wife and two daughters. Locally, he performs on the Brazilian-Latin jazz scene and teaches the Latin Jazz Ensemble of the CU Boulder’s Thompson Jazz Studies Program.
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