Tulio Rondón

Tulio Rondón was born in Venezuela. He obtained his Bachelor's Degree at the Simón Bolivar Conservatory, where at the age of seventeen he was appointed cello teacher. As one of the founding members of the Aragua Symphony Orchestra in Venezuela, Tulio served as a principal cellist for six years.

In 1997 Tulio was invited to join the Cuarteto de Cuerdas América, and was chamber music assistant at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio (USA). In May 1999 Tulio Rondón received his Master's Degree in cello performance from Miami University. Tulio Rondón then moved to Tucson Arizona, and completed a Doctoral Degree in performance at the University of Arizona, in the year 2005. In the same year he moved to the Netherlands, in order to pursue studies on baroque cello and viola da gamaba with Jaap ter Linden and Rainer Zipperling at The Royal Conservatory in The Hague.

Tulio Rondón's chamber music experiences have taken him all over the world, participating in concerts in North and South America and throughout Europe, and sharing stage with world celebrated artists, to mention a few; Gil Shaham, Paul Katz, James Tocco, Hagen String Quartet, Pacifica String Quartet, Miro String Quartet. Mr. Rondón has participated in renowned festivals including, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Great Lakes Music Festival, Audubon String Quartet Seminar, Domaine Forget festival de Musique, and Amherst Early Music Festival. In these festivals he had the pleasure of working with well known pedagogues such as Jaap Ter Linden, Anner Bylsma, Rainer Zipperling, Phillip Muller, among others, and members of the Tokyo, Cleveland, Penderecky, Colorado, Franz Shubert, St. Lawrence, Audubon, Vermeer, Orford, and Oxford String Quartets.

Rondón's teaching experience has undergone continuous growth since the age of seventeen. He has worked in schools, colleges, and conservatories, such as, Simón Bolivar conservatory (Maracay-Venezuela), Earlham College at Richmond, IN (USA), and Catalina Foothills School District at Tucson, AZ (USA), Prime School of Music in Tucson, AZ, and a continuing private teaching experience.

Tulio Rondón teaches at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, and is the artist director of a the European based baroque ensemble L'incontro Antico, and founding member of the Sephardic music emsemble Me la Amargates Tú. Tulio Rondón performs on a 1783 Ioannes Michael Willer violoncello, and a Copy of Michael Colichon c. 1687 viola da gamba.