Cuarteto Casals
The Cuarteto Casals(" Casals Quartet") is a Spanish string quartet based at l'Auditori in Barcelona, where all four members reside and teach at the Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya.
Colegio San José, Arequipa, Peru
Colegio San José is a private Catholic school located in Arequipa, Peru.
The school was founded in 1898 by the Society of Jesus( Jesuits) and provides instruction at the preschool, primary, and secondary levels.
It is a selective school that excels in academics and athletics.
Among 2,439 in Peru, it is one of 22 which have received an" excellent" rating.
It has the second largest campus of all the schools in Perú, and it is also the second oldest school in town, after Sagrados Corazones.
The school currently competes with Prescott School, Lord Byron School, and Max Uhle.
Samvel Balasanyan
Samvel Balasanyan is an Armenian politician.
He is the current Mayor of Gyumri and a former Deputy Speaker of National Assembly of Armenia.
Academia de Musica de S. Pio X
Academia de Música S. Pio
X is a multi-lingual music school founded by the priest Áureo Castro in 1962, under the suggestion of the director of the Lisbon National Conservatory.
Its original name was" Escola das Missões Católicas"( lit." School of the Catholic Missions"), and the school opened its doors on 2 October with 48 enrolled students.
Its initial staff was composed by Cesare Brianza( piano), Maria de Lurdes Ruas Freire Garcia( piano), António Freire Garcia( violin), Marcos Lau and two other unidentified teachers, known as Liang e Chao.
In 1975, bishop Macau, D. Arquimínio da Costa authorized an expansion of the school using funds from the government.
Governor António Lopes dos Santos also started conceding a mensal allowance for it, alleging it was" a private institution of cultural value, considered to be of utility to the province"( in Portuguese:" Uma instituição particular de carácter cultural, considerada de utilidade para a Província").
According to the words of Áureo Castro," the academy was founded with the purpose of giving young men from Macau, Portuguese and Chinese, a gradually progressive musical institution.
So there was the need of using a bilingual educational system, using Portuguese and Chinese; and later also English.
Of the many students that were taught by the academy, at least three dozen proceeded with their musical studies, graduating in diverse music colleges.
Several also now live in Canada, United States, Hong Kong and Australia."( adapted, see footnotes for lit.).
Vincent de Pio
Vincent de Pio( December 20, 1979 – present) is a Filipino artist who graduated from the University of the Philippines School of Fine Arts majoring in Painting.
He is the fourth child of the renowned artist and professor, Gig de Pio, and his siblings are Simkin, Gig Jr., Domino, and Julian de Pio.
He was raised earlier on in his life already exposed to different art techniques and styles, learning about anatomy and how to draw.
Inspired by Expressionism, he subjects of his work range from landscapes to portraits to more figurative works.
Captivated and inspired by classical music, his first solo show was composed of several paintings of a woman playing a cello.
Later on, his choice of subject are characters of Japanese culture, as he is fascinated with their intricacies.
De Pio seeks to portray social politics as well as his own story through his paintings.
His artist influences include his late uncle Vicente Manansala, and the more contemporary artist, Kent Williams.
Also inspired by Juan Luna and Arturo R. Luz, de Pio counts Impressionism and Cubism as artistic movements that inspire him, although his own work tends to combine expressionist and realist techniques.
His works have been critically and commercially acclaimed, garnering attention in exhibits located in Manila and Singapore.
He has participated in over 20 group exhibits and three exhibits wherein the theme was for the artists to create their own portrayal of the woman of today.
He has also been a finalist for competitions such as that in UP College of Fine Arts, the Metrobank Art Competition and the GSIS National Art Competition.
De Pio is one of the artist members of Gallerie Joaquin, where he had his debut solo exhibition.
Aureo Castro
Rev. Fr. Aureo Castro Nunes e Castro( 1917 – 21 January 1993), better known as Father Aureo Castro, was born at Pico, on Calendaria in the Azores, Portugal.
He arrived in Macau on 15 September 1931, where, at the age of 14, he entered the St Joseph Diocesan Seminary, where he studied theory, solfeggio and harmony with the fathers Wilhelm Schmid and Antonio Andre Ngan.
He was ordained a priest on 8 September 1943.
Fr. Aureo was professor at the seminary and also a chaplain and vicar of the Macau Cathedral.
He was later appointed St Lawrence parish priest and became director of the Catholic weekly newspaper" O Clarim".
Other posts held by Fr. Aureo included professor of choral singing and professor of \religion and morals at the Liceu and the Pedro Nolasco Commercial School.
In 1951, Fr. Aureo went to Lisbon to study music at the National Conservatory, where he also studied voice and piano with Biermann, Arminda Correia and Croner de Vasconcelos( 1910 – 1974).
He was also assistant to the Portuguese conductor and musicologist Mario Sampayo Ribeiro( 1898 – 1966) in the choir of the University of Lisbon.
He graduated with a distinction in Music Composition in 1958.
While he lived in Portugal, he completed the" Sonata No 1, Tres Conrais Melodias Gregorianas Sonata No 2, Sonatina no1" and" Sonatina no2.
His Te Deum" for choir and organ.
They premiered at the church of Sao Joao de Deus, Lisbon.
Returning to Macau, he promoted religious singing and founded the" Grupo Coral Polifonico" in 1959.
In 1962, along with Father Cesar Brianza, he founded the" Academia de Musica de S. Pio X" of which he became Director.
" Dancas da Siu Mui Mui", a piano suite for children, was composed in 1967- 68 and published in Hong Kong in 1971.
Besides academic studies, the Academia de Musica de S Pio X organized public concerts, free of charge, and invited many internationally famous musicians to give concerts in Macau.
In 1983, he founded the Macau Chamber Orchestra with British composer Stuart Bonner and a group of friends.
The members of the orchestra were amateur musicians and music teachers from the Academy, which was later incorporated to the Macau Cultural Institute.
Fr. Aureo dedicated his life to the promotion of music and his talents as teacher and composer are widely recognized.
Today, students from the Academia can be found in Portugal, France, Switzerland, Australia, USA and Canada.
In 1987 and 1990, he was twice decorated by the Macau Government with the Medal of Cultural Merit.
Fr. Aureo died on 21 January 1993, aged 76, at the Complexo Hospitalar Conde de S. Januario, and was buried at the Cemetery of Sao Miguel Arcanjo.
Lord Byron (disambiguation)
Lord Byron( 1788–1824) was a British poet Lord Byron may also refer to:
Simkin de Pio
Simkin de Pio( born March 17, 1976, in Quezon City) is a Filipino painter.
The eldest son of renowned Filipino realist painter Gig de Pio and Fe Esterlina, his siblings include Las Vegas- based painter Gig Jr., Domino, Julian, and Manila- based painter Vincent de Pio.
In 1994, de Pio graduated from the Ateneo de Manila High School, and in 1998 entered the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts, Diliman, where he studied under the tutelage of such Philippine art stalwarts as Roberto Feleo and Roberto Chabet.
After finishing his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting, de Pio worked as a graphic artist and illustrator at the UP NISMED, the AMA Computer University head office, and PetPlans, and later taught at the De La Salle – College of Saint Benilde School of Design and the Arts as well as at Xavier School( on top of duties as a graphic designer).
According to Icons of Rock, de Pio's artworks" offer unique insights into the human condition in a narrative of forms and color that breathe life into thoughts, concepts and emotions from which emerge a striking realism".
De Pio uses different kinds of medium, but most of his artworks have been in oil, acrylic, and pastel or charcoal.
De Pio was once an artist for Manila's FormaFuego Artist Space.
He currently maintains a studio, Prometheus Atelier, in Quezon City, while also teaching at FEATI University's fine arts department and volunteering as a managing editor for the emerging" diskurso.com" art e-zine and principal photographer for the YouTube" diskurso art channel".
Lord Byron School (Gyumri)
Lord Byron School №20  is a public school in Gyumri (formerly Leninakan) founded in 1990, following the 1988 Armenian earthquake that devastated the city, by funds provided by the British Government as well as donations raised by the British people.
A carved stone cross called a Khatchkar was placed in a British school by the Armenian government in thanks for the rebuilding of this school following the 1988 earthquake.
Salon de Musica
Salon de Musica is an album released in 2004 by Korean pop rock band Bulldog Mansion.

Question: Are both Lord Byron School (Gyumri) and Academia De Musica De S. Pio X located in the same country?
Answer: no