Venezuelan violist Ramón Carrero-Martínez has won top prizes in chamber music competitions, including first prize in the Maria Paula Alonzo Chamber Music Competition in Caracas, prize winner in the Lilian Fuchs chamber music competition and first prize in Ruth Widder String Quartet. Mr. Carrero-Martínez began his music studies in Caracas as part of Venezuela’s “El Sistema”. He has performed in concert halls in Venezuela, US and Europe including Chicago Symphony Center, Carnegie Hall, Berlin Philharmonie, Konzerthaus of Vienna, and Het Concertgebouw of Amsterdam. He was an International Program Artist in Music@Menlo 2017 in Atherton. He has taught as Artist Faculty at the San Antonio Summer Classical Music Institute (CMI) and is a violin/viola faculty of UpBeat NYC, a Bronx-based music program inspired by “El Sistema”. Carrero-Martínez holds a Bachelor of Music from the Manhattan School of Music and joined the Orchestrating Dreams faculty as a viola instructor in 2018.