Biography
Diego Edelberg was born in Buenos Aires in 1981. He began his musical studies at the age of five in the Music School “Tademus” whose director was Carlos Libedinsky. When he was ten he met baritone Juan Rodó with whom he discovers the passion for singing and he studies with him for five years. It was Rodó who introduced him to the Broadway Musicals and taught him the principal songs from that genre such as Miss Saigon, The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, The Beauty & the Beast and Dracula.
When he was 15 he met Ida Terkiel who would become his singing teacher for 8 years. Terkiel insisted that Diego was still to young to study Opera, but due to his passion for singing, the first Opera classes began. They spent several years making vocalizations and when Diego was 20 they started singing Arie Antiche from the Parissotti’s Collection, lieder and some opera arias. Since 2006 Diego has been working his voice with Maestro Eduardo Cogorno.
When he was 16 he met Beatriz Tabares, who was his piano and musical languague teacher for 10 years . He enters the National Conservatory of Music “Carlos López Buchardo” as a piano player and he completes his musical and pianistic studies in that instiution. He recieves his Bachelor Degree “Licenciado en Artes Musicales con orientacion en piano” (Bachelor in Musical Arts with specialization in piano”) in July 2008.
In 2000 he receives his High-School diploma from ORT School. Since ORT is a technical Instituion he earns his Degree as a Musical Technical Producer. This Degree enables him to make multitracks recordings in analogic and digital systems, mix and “masterization”; select, program and manipulate all the equipments that are used in the Musical Producction (recorders, amplifiers, microphones, mixers, “samplers”, syntes, computers, sequencers, etc.); he also learned to make postproduction video and sonorization of images along with desings and production of multimedia presentations for computers.
In 2001 he entered the “Trilce” choir directed by Maestro Néstor Andrenacci and sang there for 3 years. The repertoire he sang in the choir was very eclectic: works from the Reinassace up to the XX Century, including also popular choir arragements for tangos, chacarreras and murgas (folk argentinian music). With the choir he made many presentations in public Libraries from the Buenos Aires Goverment, Churches, Hospitals, The “Salon Dorado” from the National Cultural House and ended with a tour though Chile where he sang in the “Sala Claudio Arrau” from the Municipal Theater of Chile.
From 2002 to 2004 he studied morphology, counterpoint and harmony with Maestro Guillermo Pozzatti and from 2003 he studies repertoire with Maestro Guillermo Opitz.
Since 2005 he sings as a soloist in different Theaters in Buenos Aires such as “La Scala de San Telmo”, “El Casal de Catalunya” and the “Institución Argentino-Germano” with a vast chamber repertoire. He has sung Schubert‘s “Die Schöne Mullerin” and concerts with lieder by Mozart, Brahms, Fauré, Arie Antiche and Opera Arias.
Since 2003 he also sings as a Cantor in the Israelitan Congregation from the Argentine Republic, also known as “Sinagoga de la Calle Libertad” where it is geographically placed. The Sinagogue is the first and central Jewish Institution in Argentina.
