GUSTAVO ROMERO

Spanish-born concert pianist, GUSTAVO ROMERO, will be back in Gqeberha on Sunday,16 March 2025, in the NMU south campus auditorium. The concert will start at 15h00.

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.

A native of San Diego with heritage in Guadalajara, Mexico, Mr. Romero discovered his love and gift for the piano at the age of five and gave his first public performances at the age of 10, when he also won his first piano competition. At 13, he performed with the New York Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta. Rudolf Serkin recognized his exceptional talent, 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.

For the past 25 years, Mr. Romero has performed a summer series of concerts in La Jolla, California, sponsored by the Athenaeum Music and Arts Library featuring music of one composer each year. He has presented the works of Chopin, Bach, Schumann, Schubert, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Haydn, Händel, Liszt, Debussy, Gershwin, Ravel and Rachmaninoff, the complete piano sonatas of Beethoven and Mozart, the complete four-hand and two-piano works of Mozart and Clementi and piano concerti of Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, and Mendelssohn conducting from the keyboard.

His recordings include works by Chopin, Mompou, Debussy, Albeniz, Scarlatti and the five Beethoven concerti with the English Chamber Orchestra.

Mr. Romero is a Professor Emeritus of Piano at the University of North Texas.

For his concert in Port Elizabeth, he chose to play the following works:

Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757): Sonata in C major, K. 487, Sonata in F minor, K. 466, Sonata in G major, K. 427

Robert Schumann (1810 – 1856):            Kreisleriana, Op. 16 

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937):  La Vallée des cloches (The Valley of Bells) and Alborada del Gracioso (Morning Song of the Jester) 

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849):  Ballade No 2 in F Major, Op. 38, Ballade No 3 in A-flat Major, Op. 47, Ballade No 4 in F minor, Op. 52 and Ballade No 1 in G minor Op. 23.

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