Andrea Arese-Elías has performed extensively as a solo and chamber musician in countries which include her native Argentina, Mexico, El Salvador, Japan, Bulgaria, and the United States. As a chamber musician she has collaborated with renowned artists such as Andres Cardenes, Stephen Balderston, Robert Spring and Rafael Figueroa. She has performed as a soloist with the Cordoba Symphony Orchestra (Argentina), the Pleven Symphony Orchestra (Bulgaria), Cincinnati's Philharmonia Orchestra, and the Grand Junction Symphony, among others.

  She has won many awards, prizes, and scholarships. Among them, J. S. Bach National Piano Competition (Argentina), Trelew National Piano Competition, Cordoba's Municipal Orchestra Concerto Competition, Buenos Aires' Citibank Chamber Music Scholarship, Cincinnati Three Arts Scholarship, University of Cincinnati Graduate Scholarship, Cordoba University Prize, and Cordoba Rotary Club Prize. As a winner of the Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music Concerto Competition, she was invited to play under the baton of the world-famous Spanish conductor Jesus Lopez Cobos.

  Andrea Arese-Elias made her recital debut at age eleven and her orchestral debut at fourteen with the Cordoba National Symphony Orchestra of Argentina. She earned her bachelor of music degree with honors from the National University of Cordoba and completed her Master and Doctoral degrees in piano performance from the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, where studied with Rudolph Serkin's protegé, Eugene Pridonoff. She has also participated in numerous workshops and masterclasses with eminent pianists such as Rosalyn Tureck, Gerhard Oppitz, Elizabeth Pridonoff, James Tocco, Sandra Rivers, and Alfonso Montecino. Her chamber music studies include masterclasses with members of the Tokyo and Lasalle String Quartets, and the Camerate Bariloche.

  She has taught piano at the National University of Cordoba, University of Cincinnati Preparatory Department, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction, Colorado. She frequently performs concerts with her husband, violinist Carlos Elias as part of the Elias Duo, with whom made her New York debut at Carnegie Hall in 2002. In addition she is also a founding member of the Colorado Mesa University Faculty Piano Trio and the Las Americas Piano Trio.

  In December 2005 she was awarded a prize from the Argentinian television program Nosotras for her contributions to classical music.

  She has been a soloist with several orchestras including the Cordoba Symphony (Argentina), Cincinnati Philharmonia Orchestra, Pleven Philharmonic Orchestra (Bulgaria) and the Grand Junction Symphony. She has participated in several music festivals including the Crested Butte Music Festival, Durango Music in the Mountains Festival and International Contemporary Music Festival in El Salvador. She is currently a member of the piano faculty at the University of Dayton and a collaborative pianist at Cedarville University.

  Carlos Elias began his musical studies at the age of five at the National Center of Arts in San Salvador. After graduating from high school and coming to the United States, he graduated Magna Cum Laude from Biola University in California, obtaining a Bachelor s degree in violin performance.

  He earned his Masters degree from the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music and an Artist Diploma from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. Among his teachers are Elizabeth Holborn, Mark Baranov, Valentin Stefanov, Won Bin Yim, and Hong-Guang Jia. He has also played in several master classes given by Ruben Gonzalez, Dorothy Delay, Andres Cardenes, Malcolm Lowe Jacques Israelievitch and Sylvia Rosenberg. Mr. Elias has performed in solo recitals and in orchestras in the United States, El Salvador, and Japan, and was the winner of the Biola University Concerto Competition in 1988 and 1989, and 2nd place in the El Salvador Violin Competition in 1985. In 1986, he represented his country at the World Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Lorin Maazel.

  He has been a member of the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra in Sendai (Japan), Pittsburgh Opera Orchestra, Erie Philharmonic, Wheeling Symphony Orchestra, and assistant concertmaster of the El Salvador Symphony Orchestra. He has participated in several music festivals, such as Congress of Strings, Aspen Music Festival (CO), Sarasota Music Festival (FL), Casals Festival (Puerto Rico), Affinis Music Festival (Japan), Western Slope Music Festival (CO), Corsi Internazionali di Musica (Italy), the Raphael Trio's Chamber Music Workshop (VT), and most recently, at the Music in the Mountains Festival (CO). He and his wife, pianist Andrea Arese-Elias, gave their New York debut at Weill Hall in Carnegie Hall on March 28, 2002. They have performed extensively in the United States, Japan, Argentina and El Salvador. Their recently released CD "Let's Tango" was named "Best of the Best" in the International category on eMusic in the US and the United Kingdom.

  Mr. Elias was the Director of Strings/Orchestra at Colorado Mesa University and Concertmaster of the Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra from 1999-2013. In addition, he was the Music Director of the Symphony in the Valley in Glenwood Springs from 2008-2013. Currently, he is the Director of Strings and Orchestra at Cedarville University in Ohio. Carlos Elias plays a 1985 violin by the late American maker Sergio Peresson.