Coming from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Eduardo began playing cello at the age of six. His father was a professional bassist and took him to rehearsals and concerts from a very young age. Eduardo says that “one day he asked me if I would like to study cello and I said yes – in the space of a week I had my first cello and my first class. I never looked back!
Eduardo studied with Nicolas Finoli in Buenos Aires, with Radu Aldulescu and Pierre Fournier in Switzerland and with Boris Pergamenschikow in Germany. He says, “I was very lucky to have the chance to work with these great teachers; I am very grateful to all of them!” Before joining CBSO Eduardo was cello leader of the National Symphony Orchestra of Argentina, founding member of the string quartet of Rádio Nacional de Argentina and a member of the Camerata Lysy in Switzerland, where he met his wife, and the violist of CBSO, Catherine Bower. As cello Eduardo says it has many highlights, “but the years of Simon Rattle and Andris Nelsons were very special”.
Outside the CBSO, Eduardo is passionate about teaching; He taught for 32 years at the Royal Northern College of Music, and still teaches at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. He likes to listen and play tango with the quintet El Ultimo Tango, play chamber music and solo plays and watch football from around the world. He is also involved in several festivals in South America, some of which involve working with underprivileged youth.
If that were not enough, Eduardo also has his own Latin American cello festival every two years in Buenos Aires. With all this activity, it’s probably no surprise that Eduardo’s last favorite activity outside the CBSO is to take a vacation.