Studio Members - Bernardo Miethe

Bernardo Miethe started playing flute 10 years ago in the Carabobo Music Conservatory. He was the principal flute at the Carabobo’s Youth Orchestra from the year 2003 to the end of 2005, in which he had the opportunity to play pieces such as Dvorak’s 9th symphony, Beethoven’s 9th symphony, and Ravel’s “Bolero,” between others. He was also first piccolo at the Venezuelan Central-Region Orchestra from December august 2004 to December 2005, which played annual concerts in Venezuela’s capital for musicians like Claudio Abbado and Sir. Simon Rattle. He was the piccolist in the Valencia’s Symphonic Band, in which he played pieces like “Night on Bald Mountain” and with this band he played as soloist for the first time in the year 2005. He has performed in master classes with Venezuelan flutist Luis Julio Toro, and also with Berliner philharmonic’s piccolist Michael Hasel. He was in the Ad-Libitum woodwind quintet and during his three years in that ensemble he received master classes with the Berlin Philharmonic woodwind Quintet in two different music festivals. Bernardo is currently 19 years old and he is studying music performance as a freshman in USM, performing in the Wind Ensemble, USM Symphony Orchestra, and in a woodwind quintet, and he is studying flute with Dr. Danilo Mezzadri.