Pablo Salcedo
Quena"markama", quenacho, moxeño, anatas, ocarina, erke, sikus, guitar, transverse flute, saxophone and voice.
- Graduated in Transverse Flute (1994) and present Chief of Area of Winds and Percussion at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (UNCu)
- Creator and present professor of the Saxophone Chair (UNCu)
- Creator and present professor of “performance of winds on Popular Music” (UNCu)
- Pablo has been rewarded several times with national and international prizes on music performance and composition.
- Winner of the 1999 “Cultural Excellency Scholarship” given by the Argentinean Presidency and the “Antorchas Foundation”.
- He has often performed in Italy, Switzerland, France, Spain, US, Chile, Brazil and Argentina.
- As a soloist with Symphonic Orchestra (flute and saxophone) he has played the concerts for flute and orchestra of Johan Kvandal, Carl Nielsen and André Jolivet. Villalobos’ Fantasy for soprano saxophone and Debussy’s Rhapsody for alto saxophone.
- Within his wide repertory, baroque, classical, romantic, contemporary, jazz, rock and Latin American folk music are included.
- More than 50 courses on performance with masters such as Aurelé Nicolet, Felix Renggli, Torkel Bye, Lars Nilsson, Boby Martinez, Margalit Gafni, Murray Schaeffer back his education.
- Since 1995, he is a part of Markama. He has performed, recorded (twice) and given didactical concerts in many countries around the world. He shared stage with famous artists such as León Gieco, Lito Vitale, Jaime Torres, Victor Heredia, Jaime Torres, Los Jaivas, Congreso, Inti Illimani, amongst others.
- In 2002 he went on tour through the US with Markama and as a soloist as well. He gave concerts and classes at Ohio University and Ohio State University.
- In 2004 he obtained the award “Best Folk music performance” at the Americanto Festival with his piece “La raíz del conflicto” (the root of conflict), in Mendoza, Argentina.
- In 2004 he was rewarded by CEM* for “Commitment, leadership and academic achievement in a young man”. Mendoza, Argentina.
- In 2005, his CD “Más allá del pensamiento” obtained the “Premio Tribuna de la Música Argentina 2005” (TRIMARG) in the category “ethnic and folkloric fusion”. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
* Cámara de Empresarios de Mendoza

