Meet Pablo Rossi Rodino | Baritone, lyric singer and teacher

We had the good fortune of connecting with Pablo Rossi Rodino and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Pablo, can you tell us more about your background and the role it’s played in shaping who you are today?
I am a musician, singer and baritone. I consider that today I am, and I am in the process of being, the accumulation of things that I have lived and have had to live, I cannot rule out anything since everything adds up to the result and I feel happy and grateful for the journey I have made and in which I am immersed. I am in a continuous process of change, I let myself go and try to live what is presented to me. Lots of “maestros” have crossed my path: professors, conductors, regisseurs… and I try to learn from all of them. I could name many celebrities but I don’t think it’s necessary. As a lyric singer, in more than 35 years of career, I have performed on four continents: Europe, America, Asia and Africa, and recently in the USA, in large and small cities such as Dallas, Radford, Little Rock, Hot Springs and New York. I have met wonderful people in all of them. It all adds up and impacts in who I am today.

I was born in Rosario, Argentina, since I was a child I have had the opportunity to travel a lot, live and get to know Argentina in all its extension and a large part of South America. I lived in large urban centers like Buenos Aires and Caracas, and over the years I have chosen Madrid, in Spain, as my city, where I have my residence.

My mother, contrary to the customs of the time, after having her children and with great difficulty studied Fine Arts, then devoted herself to painting and artistic teaching. In my house there were many works of art and books among which I grew up. My maternal grandfather, besides being a writer, translator and bookseller, was an amateur baritone and was said to be heard humming all day. I always liked the music and the stage and a very close and personal experience with the singer Mercedes Sosa opened a great window to understand that my path was singing.

I began my studies of music and singing at the School of Music of the National University of Rosario (UNR), my hometown, then completed it privately in Buenos Aires, Madrid and Italy.

I have go deeper into musically skills as vocal technique, repertoire, interpretation, also declamation, classical dance technique, baroque and renaissance dances and my 2 favorite parallel activities,to which I dedicate myself and have integrated in my daily training wherever I am, Pilates and Yoga.

Alright, so let’s move onto what keeps you busy professionally?
My art is directly related to voice, body, interpretation, expression, conveying a message and reaching the public and all those who want to learn. A theater director I worked with told me that our job as artists is to memorize, and I add that we also have the responsibility to transmit, communicate, reach people and heal.

I feel proud of the path traveled, of the decisions I made, sometimes successfully and others not so successfully, and of having taken risks that have led me to be what I am today.
I have managed to make my economic livelihood, my passion and my profession the same thing. Music, singing, my students and my vocal and physical training are part of my day to day.
I have a very funny anecdote to tell about it:
After finishing my secondary studies, my idea was to study architecture, so I went to the Universidad del Rosario campus to do the pertinent consultations. The architecture faculty was behind a beautiful neoclassical building from which music escaped through its large windows.
I could not resist the temptation and I entered the university music school and there I immediately signed up to study singing. Architecture was not the way.

As I have the degree of commercial expert years later I went to work in a bank to be able to finance my musical studies, my banking career was on the rise and I took this opportunity to ask to be transferred to Buenos Aires so I could perfect my singing studies. A few years later, I decided to leave the bank to dedicate myself to what is now my profession. I always knew that the bank was a means and not the end. A while later I took the leap to Europe and I settled in Madrid, where I currently reside, I have my private students and it is my center of operations to move where the occasion requires.

I get excited with any demonstration that moves my deepest fibers. A word, a feeling, a phrase, a note, a movement, a sound, a gesture, a chord, an image… or a combination of some or all of these.

I consider that the most important factors to get to where I am today professionally are love for what I do, perseverance and the search for balance, be it in ideals as well as in study and applied to teaching.
If we talk about work, my profession is divided into two aspects, the interpreter and the teacher, both equally gratifying and necessary for me. The working life of the artist in general, and a soloist in particular, has many ups and downs of continuity, as it is well known. Over the years I have been learning to combine these two parts of my work, since both give me great satisfaction. I believe that balance is necessary and fundamental in this, and in all aspects of life, from the physical, to the emotional, through the economic and work aspects.

Since my beginnings I have never stopped training, learning. I always say that I am ignorant of many things, as Socrates said “I only know that I know nothing”.
I have deepened my musical skills, vocal technique, repertoire and interpretation, and also declamation, classical dance technique, Baroque and Renaissance dances and two parallel activities that I dedicate myself to and integrate into my daily training, wherever I am, Pilates and Yoga.

I would like to continue growing by learning and discovering, letting myself go and transforming as always. I don’t know when or where the end will be. In May of this year I did my first US tour and debuted at Carnegie Hall in New York, a new and unexpected experience. I have several projects on my calendar and ideas in mind and hope to continue adding and overcoming challenges.
Just yesterday I did a private concert in Madrid, the hostess, a lovely woman I met at my concert at Carnegie Hall, introduced me to the audience as a baritone with a very beautiful voice, but with a particular quality, according to her the most important, I am very expressive and convincingly convey what I interpret.

The great soprano Renata Scotto told me time ago that there is no ugly or bad sound if it comes from the sense of the word or the character.

Any places to eat or things to do that you can share with our readers? If they have a friend visiting town, what are some spots they could take them to?
I would do this experience with my life partner, who is always by my side in good times and bad. I would take him to see the Dallas Arts District, walk through its streets and gardens and enjoy its fantastic architecture, We would go to a performance at the ATT Performing Arts Center and also the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center and take it to the multifaceted Booker T. Washington High School of Visual and Performing Arts, where I had the opportunity to give master classes this year. He also took him to see the Art Museum and the Aquarium. A burger at Chop House Burger or Mexican food anywhere specialized is a must.

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
I would like to thank each and every one of the people who crossed my path and influenced it, from my parents, my brother and siblins, friends, family, teachers and, of course, and last but not least, my life partner.

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