Two Mexican musicians selected for YouTube orchestra

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The YouTube Symphony Orchestra is a collaborative project of auditions on YouTube videos, filtered by a jury of musicians and other YouTube users.

Global Voices Online reports that it recently selected the members of the symphony who will play the musical piece composed specially for the project, and two Mexican musicians are among them.

The blog Vivir México reports that one of them is violinist Manuel Zogbi, from the northern city of Saltillo.

Very little is known about the identity of the other musician selected. His YouTube username is Intinsamente and, according to the magazine El Mañana, he is from Veracruz.

Alongside the Mexicans, two musicians from Brazil and one from Colombia will participate in the orchestra. No details were available about them, but their performances can be seen on the winners page of the YouTube project.

-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City