Melisa Corso

Melisa Belen Corso began her musical studies with violin and classical guitar, before specialising on violin. She has had the opportunity to learn from many excellent teachers, and has been part of various musical groups which gave her an optimal environment for her growth as a musician. She has performed as a soloist on international stages and with several orchestras. In 2014 she joined the first violins of the OSUNC Symphonic Orchestra where she performed Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto n1. In 2016 she performed the premier of Concierto Irlandes composed by Leandro Flores and conducted by Daniel Mazza.

Melisa has numerous scholarships to be part of several music festivals developed in Brazil such as: Oficinas de Musica de Curitiba, Música nas Montanhas Festival, FEMUSC Festival, among others. Through these festivals she had the opportunity to learn from renowned international teachers. In 2018 Melisa moved to Brazil to become a private student of Marcello Guerchfeld who studied at the Juilliard School of Music.

Melisa was a member of several different orchestras in Brazil where she had the opportunity to perform a wide orchestral repertoire. Some of these were Theatro Sao Pedro Orchestra and Santa María Symphonic Orchestra UFSM.

In 2020 she moved to Argentina and was offered a position as a violin teacher at the Suzuki Method School where she worked until the end of 2021. During that year Melisa worked as a violin and viola teacher in a social project at Padre Gaston Vergonjeanne School in Córdoba, Argentina.

Alongside her classical violin studies, Melisa has also been trained in Irish Traditional Music since 2010. She joined a celtic music band called Cordoba Celtica and she was teaching fiddle at EICI Branch of Comhaltas in Cordoba, Argentina