Adriana Balboa was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. She studied guitar with Eduardo Fernández at the Uruguayan conservatory. She received many scholarships to study guitar in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Spain. In 1993 she got a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholarship to continue her studies at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin studying later at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler”. She graduated with a diploma from Thomas Offermann’s class.
Adriana makes regular appearances at Festivals and plays in a number of chamber groups. She also played with the orchestras Berliner-Latino-Solisten, Berlin Sinfonietta and OSSODRE and organiced the ‘Lateinamerikanisches Gitarrenfestival’ held in Berlin on November 2001.
Adriana engages herself furthermore for better work conditions at the communal music schools in Berlin and for a specific legislation in this area (see on this topic: https://www.kulturfoerderngesetz.de/).
- Montevideo, Uruguay
- Berlin, Germany
- abalboa@gmx.de
- http://www.adriana-balboa.net/