Helena Bugallo

HELENA BUGALLO a native of Argentina, has performed throughout the Americas, Europe, and Japan, appearing at international festivals such as Tanglewood, Warsaw Autumn, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Musica Viva Munich, Festival del Centro Histórico Mexico, and Ciclo de Música Contemporánea Buenos Aires. In addition to her work with the Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo, she is a member of the Ensemble Phoenix Basel. She has also collaborated with the Meridian Arts Ensemble(New York), the SWR Vokalensemble (Stuttgart), Thuermchen Ensemble (Cologne), Ensemble Resonanz (Hamburg) and Mondrian Ensemble(Basel). In 2007, she was featured as a soloist with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rudfunks in Munich. Engagements for 2008 included her participation in Hellhoerig, a new piece of music theater by Carola Bauckholt, premiered at the Munich Biennale. At the request of the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel, she prepared the score of Edgard Varèse's piano arrangement of his Amériques for its world premiere recording in 2009. Ms. Bugallo's teachers have included Lía Konias, Roberto Caamano, Stephen Drury, and Alan Feinberg. She holds music degrees from the Conservatorio Provincial de La Plata (Argentina) and the State University of New York at Buffalo (USA), where she obtained a Master's degree in piano performance and a Ph.D. in musicology. Her doctoral dissertation is on the music of Conlon Nancarrow. Between 2001 and 2003, she was a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Birmingham (UK). Ms. Bugallo presently lives in Basel, Switzerland.