GABRIELA MONTERO PIANIST

Gabriela Montero’s visionary interpretations and unique compositional gifts have garnered her critical acclaim and a devoted following on the world stage.

Recipient of the 2018 Heidelberger Frühling Music Prize, Ms. Montero’s recent and forthcoming highlights include debut invitations to perform with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, New World Symphony, New Zealand Symphony, and the Orchestre National de France; an extensive European tour with the City of Birmingham Symphony and Mirga Gražinyte -Tyla; residencies with the São Paolo, Prague Radio, and Basel symphonies; and regular appearances at the National Arts Centre of Canada where she was appointed Creative Partner for four years from the 2021–2022 season.

The 2022–2023 season saw the launch of “Gabriela Montero at Prager”, a new ongoing artistic residency established at the Prager Family Center for the Arts in Easton, Maryland. Ms. Montero also made venue debuts in Paris at the Seine Musicale and at the Philharmonie, the latter featuring the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and Marin Alsop. Ms. Montero re-joined forces with Alsop for performances of Ms. Montero’s “Latin” Concerto with the Chicago Symphony at the Ravinia Festival and the Dallas Symphony, while bringing her 2018 composition Babel to the Oregon Symphony.

Celebrated for her exceptional musicality and ability to improvise, Ms. Montero has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras to date, including: the New York, Royal Liverpool, Rotterdam, Dresden, Oslo, and Netherlands Radio Philharmonics; Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Zürcher Kammerorchester, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Belgian National Orchestra, Cleveland

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Orchestra, Komische Oper Berlin Orchestra, and Residentie Orkest; and Vienna Radio, Yomiuri Nippon, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Houston, Atlanta, Toronto, Baltimore, Vienna, Barcelona, Lucerne, and Sydney Symphony Orchestras.

An award-winning and bestselling recording artist, her most recent album, released in 2019 on the Orchid Classics label, features her own “Latin” Concerto and Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major. Her previous recording on Orchid Classics features Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and her first orchestral composition, Ex Patria , winning Ms. Montero her first Latin Grammy for Best Classical Album. Others include Bach and Beyond , which held the top spot on the Billboard Classical Charts for several months and garnered her two Echo Klassik Awards.

She was also awarded the 2012 Rockefeller Award for her contribution to the arts and was a featured performer at Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential Inauguration. Born in Venezuela, Gabriela Montero started her piano studies at age four, making her concerto debut at age eight in her hometown of Caracas. This led to a scholarship from the government to study privately in the USA and then at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Hamish Milne.