8 this year at different venues in Harare, Bulawayo and Kadoma.
Harare International School will host the first performances on July 6 followed by Jairos Jiri School for the Blind in Kadoma the following day.
The curtain will come down with evening concerts at the Zimbabwe Academy of Music in Bulawayo on July 8.
Pallares (27) has been a member of several youth orchestras around Europe and collaborated with several professional orchestras from Spain and Berlin.
Pallares is also a graduate from University of Culture in Berlin and has won several prizes including the Wardwell Stipendium scholarship of the Alexannder von Humboldt Foundation in 2007-2008.
Beltrán, on the other hand, has also starred in the field of chamber music in numerous concerts in Barcelona, London, New York, Miami, Berlin, the Azores, Madrid, Leon among others.
He has attended several professional training courses and competitions such as the Escola de Música de Barcelona and the Alice-Samter Wettbewerb and has recorded with Columna Musci and Col Legno labels.
Since May 2009, he is the leading second violin player in the Gulbenkian Orchestra of Lisbon.
Born in Italy, Rassekh was a member of various youth orchestras, often playing first viola, as in the “Orchestra Giovanile Italiana and the “Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester”, performing in some of the most prestigious venues such us Musikverin in Vienna and The Royal Albert Hall in London, amongst others.
He has also worked with numerous professional orchestras in Italy and abroad, which include the Symphonica Toscanini (L. Maazel), Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma (M. Plasson) as first violin, la Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife and the Orquestra Sinfónica de Galicia.
He also made forays into contemporary music, participating in and recording with the Ensemble Nuovo Contrappunto, directed by M. Ancillotti and in various ensembles directed by H. Holliger in the festival Flame.
Rassekhi has recorded for EMI, Euroarts, BBC and ORF. He has extensive experience with chamber music, playing the viola for the Escher Quartet and receiving the hallowed teachings for quartets such as Artemis and Prometeo.
Since June 2009 he has been member of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Galicia in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra is the framework within which Behrang Rassekhi and Oleguer Beltrán Pallarés first performed together on stage.
Beyond a close friendship, from that moment on they were artistically involved in parallel professional directions (The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Galicia and Gulbenkian Orchestra from Lisbon), exploring chamber music with an intensity and commitment that they were privileged to learn with the GM Youth Orchestra.
And that is how this duo of Persian and Mediterranean decent with Germanic training, and a subsequent cosmopolitan interpretation of the music of our time came into being, making them a singularly unique act.

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