Gabriela Montero

Gabriela Montero

Infobox Person
name= Gabriela Montero


caption= Montero at Sala São Paulo, by Eduardo Tardin
birth_date= Birth date and age|1970|5|10|mf=y
birth_place= Caracas, Venezuela

Gabriela Montero (born May 10, 1970) is a Venezuelan-born American classical piano virtuoso.

Biography

Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Gabriela gave her first public performance at the age of five. At age eight she made her concert debut with the Venezuelan Youth Orchestra conducted by José Antonio Abreu and was granted a scholarship from the Venezuelan government to study in the USA. At twelve she won the Baldwin National Competition and AMSA Young Artist International Piano Competition, performing Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No.1 with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.

A former student of Lyl Tiempo, Rosalina Sackstein, Andrez Esterhazy and Professor Hamish Milne at the Royal Academy of Music London, Gabriela has won international prizes including the Bronze Medal at the 13th International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1995. In recital Gabriela has appeared at the Wigmore Hall London, Kennedy Center Washington DC, National Arts Center Ottawa, Orchard Hall Tokyo, Teatro Colon Buenos Aires, Herkulessaal Munich, Musikhalle Hamburg, Berlin Konzerthaus, Sala São Paulo, and will appear at the Cologne Philharmonie as part of the Cologne Musiktriennale 2007 whose theme will be 'improvisation'. Gabriela has appeared at the Roque d’Anthéron, Radio France Montpellier, Schleswig-Holstein, MDR Musiksommer, Penderecki, and Radio Canada Chopin festivals and is invited annually to the 'Progetto Martha Argerich' Festival in Lugano and to Martha Argerich's Buenos Aires Festival.

Gabriela is also a talented improviser. In her interview on "All Things Considered", she says that when she was 2 or 3, she began improvising on lullabies that her mother sang to her. On her CD "Bach & Beyond" released in 2006, she improvises on Bach themes. She has also been profiled on the television programmes "60 Minutes" (December 3, 2006) and "Newsnight" (February 19, 2008 [cite web | url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/2008/02/tuesday_19_february_2008.html | title=Newsnight blog: Tuesday 19 February, 2008 | publisher=BBC News] ).

"I have rarely come across a talent like Gabriela's. She is a unique artist." --Martha Argerich

Discography

*Gabriela Montero: "Baroque" (EMI Classics, 2007)
*Gabriela Montero: "Bach and Beyond" (EMI Classics, 2006)
*Gabriela Montero: "Piano Recital" (EMI Classics, 2005)

Source

* [http://www.gabrielamontero.com Gabriela Montero official website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/gabrielamontero Gabriela Montero official MySpace Music page]
* [http://www.youtube.com/GabrielaMonteroTV Gabriela Montero official YouTube channel]
* [http://www.emiclassics.com/artistbiography.php?aid=25 Gabriela Montero on EMI Classics]
* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6077568 Interview on NPR's "All Things Considered"]
* [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article3277372.ece Interview in The Times (London)]

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