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WHEREAS, Aisha Syed-Castro was born in Santiago, Dominican Republic on September 15, 1989. Described by the press in three continents as a "virtuoso" (Lietuvos Rytas in Lithuania, Frankfurt Neue Presse in Germany, Time Out Magazine and The National in the UAE, Lokal-Nachrichten in Bern, Switzerland), a "deeply gifted artist" (Ft. Lauderdale Connex in Florida), and "one of the youngest and most talented ambassadors of the violin in the world" (Live Out Loud Magazine in Los Angeles, California), Aisha became the first Latina to attend the child prodigy Yehudi Menuhin School in England where she also studied at the Royal College of Music with a full scholarship by the Soiree d'Or committee; and,
WHEREAS, Aisha Syed-Castro has performed as a soloist at the Luxembourg Palace in Paris, the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi, the Palace of the Grand Dukes in Vilnius, the Palacio de Linares in Madrid, the Fontainebleau Palace in Fontainebleau, the National Philharmonic Hall in Vilnius, the headquarters of the Organization of American States in Washington DC, the Wigmore Hall in London, the Kauffman Hall in New York, the Clairmont Hall in Tel-Aviv, the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Florida, the Yehudi Menuhin Forum in Bern, the Barocksaal in Vienna among many other halls; and,
WHEREAS, Also as a soloist, she has performed in many festivals including the Abu Dhabi Music Festival, the Banstead Arts Festival, the Leamington Hastings festival, the Yehudi Menuhin International Music Festival in Gstaad, Switzerland, the Santo Domingo Music Festival, the Gaida Contemporary Music Festival (where she gave the worid premiere of the Alguirdas Martinaitits violin concerto, dedicated to her, at the National Philharmonic Hall with the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra in Vilnius), the CICA International Music Festival in Texas, and at the Fontainebleau Summer Music Festival by personal invitation of its Artistic Director Phillipe Entremont. Her live performance of "La Cam...
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