Gustavo Romero, Piano
Guest Artist Concert
| When | Friday, September 11, 2015, 7:30 PM |
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| Location | Lansing Recital Hall, Crowell Conservatory of Music |
| Contact | Anna Glenn at 562-903-4892 or music@biola.edu |
| Admission | Ticket Prices: $17Gen; $12 Faculty/Staff/Senior Citizens/Alumni/$7 Students |
"Mr. Romero has great agility, adequate power and an unusually large repertory of colors and dynamic levels. More important, these virtues evoked a sense of the music at hand rather than mere piano techniques" – The New York Times
"The playing is authoritative incontrovertibly Beethovenian in re-creating the composers style, technically immaculate and compelling in the extreme" – The Los Angeles Times
Concert pianist Gustavo Romero is internationally renowned for his exceptional technical brilliance and interpretive depth and has gained an acclaimed reputation for his commitment to in-depth exploration of a wide variety of composers. At 13, he performed with the New York Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta. His exceptional talent was recognized by Rudolf Serkin, and at the age of 14 he attended the Juilliard School. Mr. Romero has won many prizes including first prize in the prestigious Clara Haskil International Piano Competition in Switzerland, The Avery Fisher Career Grant and The Musical America Young Artist Award.
He has performed with the world's leading orchestras including: The New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony, Houston Symphony, The Boston Pops Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Honolulu Symphony, New World Symphony, English Chamber Orchestra, Radio France Orchestra, Philharmonia Hungarica, New Japan Philharmonic, Shanghai Orchestra, Cape Town Philharmonic, Russian Symphony Orchestra, Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Liège Philharmonic, a concert internationally televised from the United Nations.
In the 2014-15 season Mr. Romero's focus returns to the complete piano sonatas of Beethoven and the piano works of Schubert. Concert tours include China, Korea, Taiwan, South Africa and the United States. Mr. Romero has performed in some of the leading concert halls of the world, including Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Centre, The Barbican in London, The Berlin Philharmonie, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, The Great Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow and Salle Gaveau in Paris. He has been featured by NPR, BBC Radio and Radio France. A feature film about his life and artistry was produced in 2012 by The Snapshots Music and Art Foundation: Portrait in Piano. Mr. Romero is a Professor of Piano at the University of North Texas.