Eduardo Delgado (born October 3, 1943) is an Argentine classical pianist and teacher living in California. Born in Rosario, Argentina, [1] Delgado is a recipient of the Vladimir Horowitz Award and has received grants from the Mozarteum Argentino, Martha Baird Rockefeller, and the Concert Artists Guild. [2] In 1999, he was awarded by UNESCO in Buenos Aires. [3] Delgado has given recitals all over the world, in Europe, Asia, South America and North America. [4]
Delgado has participated in international competition juries such as the William Kapell, the Gina Bachauer, and the Vega in Japan and in 2003 he served as a juror in the 2nd Martha Argerich International Piano Competition in Buenos Aires. [4] In 2009 he was a member of the jury at the San Antonio International Piano Competition. [4] He is also noted for his extensive work in teaching in universities and workshops in Japan, mentoring, among others, Japanese pianist Atsuko Seta. [4] [5]
He is a part-time instructor at the California State University, Fullerton, [2] [4] where he has established a scholarship fund for pianists in tribute to the renowned late pianist Alicia de Larrocha. [1] To promote this fund, he gave an inaugural recital in 1998 with Alicia de Larrocha herself at the Richard Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California. [3] Delgado is also the founder of the Castle Green Historic & Cultural Society in his residual town of Pasadena, California. [6]
Delgado has recorded the full works of Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera. [4] He has also performed the works of other Argentine composers such as Carlos Guastavino, Alberto Williams, Juan José Castro, Alicia Terzian, Antonio Tauriello and Carlos López Buchardo. Delgado has also recorded the romantic works of Schumann, Liszt, Chopin and Mendelssohn as well as Bach, Mozart and Beethoven.
Delgado is a regular performer at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland and the Martha Argerich Festival in Lugano and Buenos Aires. He has collaborated with Martha Argerich in several duets, the most recent being Tres Romances by Carlos Guastavino. [1] In April 2009 he performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, in an all-Russian Program which featured the recitals of Prokofiev, Arensky, and Stravinsky. [3] Delgado has also recorded with tenor José Cura. [1]
Delgado is an internationally acclaimed pianist. [2] [3] [7] Norwegian critics have described Delgado as “a pianist of a thousand nuances, a fantastic experience.” [3] In Russia, the Sovetskaya Kultura wrote about Delgado, “Delgado’s Bach had brilliance, a profound meditation and a musical tone rarely heard.” [3] [6]
Martha Argerich is an Argentine classical concert pianist. She is widely considered to be one of the greatest pianists of all time. Born and raised in Buenos Aires to Jewish-Spanish parents, Argerich gave her debut concert at eight before receiving further piano training in Europe. At an early age, she won several competitions, including the VII International Chopin Piano Competition, and has since recorded numerous albums and performed with leading orchestras worldwide.
Carlos Guastavino was an Argentine composer, considered one of the foremost composers of his country. His production amounted to over 500 works, most of them songs for piano and voice, many still unpublished. His style was quite conservative, always tonal and lushly romantic. His compositions were clearly influenced by Argentine folk music. His reputation was based almost entirely on his songs, and Guastavino has sometimes been called "the Schubert of the Pampas". Some of his songs, for example Pueblito, mi pueblo, La rosa y el sauce and Se equivocó la paloma, became national favorites. Unlike most other composers, at any time or place, Guastavino earned enough from his royalties and performing rights that he had little need for other income.
Horacio Lavandera is an Argentine pianist, currently residing in Madrid, Spain. As its youngest competitor at the age of sixteen, he won the International Piano Competition Umberto Micheli, held at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatoire and in Teatro alla Scala in Milan. He has been invited to perform as a soloist with prestigious orchestras, as well as to offer recitals in America, Europe, and Asia.
Atsuko Seta is a Japanese classical pianist. She is particularly successful in Poland, especially in the southwest of the country, regularly performing with the Sudeten Philharmonic Orchestra in Walbrzych and in her native Japan and in Bulgaria. Seta is living in Poland as a Honorable Citizen of Szczawno-Zdroj city. Artistic Director of Chiangmai Ginastera International Music Festival. Honorary Professor of Payap University Thailand. Honorary Chairman of Japan Ginastera Association.
Sergio Daniel Tiempo is a Venezuelan-Argentine classical pianist.
Daniel Levy is an Argentine classical pianist. He is also an author, radio broadcaster and educator.
Mauricio Vallina is a Cuban pianist living in Brussels. He has been a top prize-winner of national and international piano competitions. His prizes include Valencia (1994) and Gernika (1996) international piano competitions, and he has also been awarded special prizes for the best performance of Cuban and Spanish Music.
Concepció Badia Millàs, known by her stage name Conchita Badía or Conxita Badia, was a Spanish soprano and pianist. Admired for her spontaneity, expressiveness, and clear diction, she was considered one of the greatest interpreters of 20th century Catalan, Spanish and Latin American art song. She premiered many works in that genre, including those by Enrique Granados, Manuel de Falla, Frederic Mompou, Alberto Ginastera, and Enric Morera, several of which had been specially written for her voice. The main part of the collection of Badia's sound recordings, scores, letters and pictures is preserved in the Biblioteca de Catalunya. In one of the letters, Pablo Casals wrote: "Everything I've written for a soprano voice has been thinking about you. Therefore, every one is yours."
Sergio Monteiro is a Brazilian pianist.
The Argentine National Symphony Orchestra is the state symphony orchestra of Argentina, based in Buenos Aires.
The Buenos Aires Philharmonic is an Argentinian orchestra based in Buenos Aires. Founded in 1946, it is based in the renowned Teatro Colón, and is considered one of the most prestigious orchestras in its nation and Latin America, and has received several honours in 60 years of history. Their local counterparts in the national aegis are the Argentine National Symphony Orchestra and the Teatro Colón Orchestra. The orchestra's current Music Director is Mexican Enrique Diemecke.
Edna Stern is a Belgian-Israeli pianist.
Alfredo Perl is a Chilean-German classical pianist and conductor, best known for his recitals of Beethoven's sonatas.
Cristina Filoso is an Argentine concert pianist.
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Gabriele Baldocci is an Italian pianist and composer naturalised British.
Bruno Leonardo Gelber is an Argentine classical pianist.
Beatriz Balzi was a renowned Argentinean pianist, professor and musicologist specialized in contemporary Latin-American music.
Federico Jusid is an Argentine composer who resides and works between Madrid and Los Angeles. He has written the scores for more than 40 feature films and over 25 television series.
His work includes the score for the Academy Award-winner for Best Foreign Film The Secret in Their Eyes, for which he received the nomination for the Spanish Academy Goya Award for Best Original Score.
He has recently worked with Alberto Iglesias writing additional compositions for the original score of Ridley Scott's Exodus: Gods and Kings, and he has also composed the OST for Kidnap with Halle Berry, and Happy 140. Other notable scores include The Life Unexpected, Everybody Has a Plan, The Escape, The Hidden Face, I Want to Be a Soldier, and more recently Magallanes, Getulio, The Ignorance of Blood, Betibu or Francis, Father Jorge.
On television, his most recognised work is the soundtrack for the Spanish historical drama Isabel, with whom he won several awards, such as International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA) Award and Reel Music Award. In 2015 he made the score for the TV series Under Suspicion and The Refugees and just released the historic drama Charles, King Emperor, sequel of Isabel.
He has also composed works for concert hall premiered throughout Europe and America by recognized soloist and chamber ensembles. As a pianist and composer, he has performed and toured prestigious theaters in Europe, Asia and America. He recorded for labels BMG, IRCO, Magenta Discos and Melopea.
Ana María Cué is an Argentine pianist, poet, and educator. She is known for her work in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.
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