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Pedro Piquero, also known as Pedro Kaiten Piquero, is a Spanish pianist, translator, and Zen Buddhist teacher. [1]
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Pedro Piquero, also known as Pedro Kaiten Piquero, is a Spanish pianist, translator, and Zen Buddhist teacher. [1]
Pedro Piquero completed his musical training with Esteban Sánchez in Spain and Caio Pagano in the United States, respectively, and graduated cum laude from Arizona State University. He has performed in the United States, South America, Mexico, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, and Sweden. In 2002, he completed a residency at the Belgais Center for Arts under the direction of pianist Maria João Pires in Portugal. [2] He has received several awards and recorded for the Verso, Columna Música, Nîbius, and Brilliant Classics labels, as a soloist with the brothers Gerard and Lluis Claret, [3] with the Orchestra of Extremadura, [4] and with actor Alberto Amarilla. [5] In 2016, Pedro Piquero was the executive producer of the documentary film Silente about the life and work of 18th-century Spanish composer Joaquín Montero. [6] [7]
In his work as a translator, Pedro Piquero, together with Gudō Wafu Nishijima, has edited the four-volume edition of Eihei Dogen's Shōbōgenzō [8] (Sirio, 2013-2016), a fundamental philosophical text of Japanese Soto Zen Buddhism, [9] and Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā [10] (Sirio, 2019), and translated and commented on Dogen's Gakudo Yojin Shu [11] (Athenaica, 2023).
In parallel with his artistic work, in 2017 in Japan, Pedro Piquero received from Venerable Peter Rodo Rocca Dharma transmission of Soto Zen Buddhism in the lineage of Zen master Gudō Wafu Nishijima, whose last disciple he was. [12] He is currently president of Dogen Sangha in Spain, director of Zendo Gudo [13] and an animal rights advocate member of the international organization Dharma Voices for Animals. [14]
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