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Vienna Melange Orchestra

The Vienna Melange Orchestra takes its name from the city where its musicians met and rehearse. Melange is the most traditional type of Viennese coffee – an espresso mixed with warm milk and milk foam; for the ensemble it symbolizes the blend of nationalities and cultures of the musicians that form the Vienna Melange Orchestra. 

Under the direction of the Polish conductor Marta Gardolińska, the Vienna Melange Orchestra is brought together and transformed into a single unit, due to the versatile and charismatic style she has developed thanks to the diverse experiences she has gathered as the conductor of different ensembles in several European countries as well as in the United States.

Its musicians have been able to learn and receive advice from Anton Sorokow, Dora Schwarzberg, Franz Bartolomey, Wolfgang Klos, Christoph Stradner, and Ivry Gitlis, in institutions such as the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, the Music and Arts Privat Conservatory Vienna, the Mozarteum Salzburg, and the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan, Italy, among others. 

The members of the Vienna Melange Orchestra have performed with other prestigious ensembles such as the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria, the ORF RSO Symphony Orchestra, the Bruckner Orchestra Linz, the Wiener Jeunesse Orchestra and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, among others. With these ensembles they have been on stage in places as diverse as Russia, Mexico, France, Romania, China, Italy, and Spain, and in halls as important as the Vienna Konzerthaus and the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein.

-Alfredo Ovalles-