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Vanessa Perez, piano

Venezuelan pianist Vanessa Perez has already been recognized as a "virtuosa" of the keyboard, endowed with an extraordinary interpretative power that captivates audiences.

She began her studies at the age of seven. Since the age of eight, she has appeared in solo recitals and with orchestras in concert halls around the world. Legendary pianist Claudio Arrau heard Ms. Perez in 1989, and described her as "a pianist whose technique, musicality, and intelligent approach to the music she plays made a profound impression on me. It is not possible to find a young artist today better equipped with all of the necessary qualities that my school of pianists requires from a performer."

At the age of 11, she gave her official debut in Caracas, Venezuela, playing the Grieg Piano Concerto with the Orquesta Sinfonica Municipal conducted by Carlos Riazuelo in front of an audience of 2500 people. After winning top prizes at numerous young artist competitions in South America, the United States and Europe, Ms. Perez continued performing in concert halls and festivals throughout the world including the Montpellier Festival - Radio France; Schauspielhaus, Berlin; Kammermusiksaal - Beethoven-Haus, Bonn; Festival Settembre Musica, Turin; Schubertiade at Sotheby's in London; Keyboard Concerts Series, Fresno; Gothic Hall in Brussels; Rios Reina in Caracas; Luis Angel Arango in Bogota and Wertheim Performing Arts Center Concert Hall, Miami.

Ms. Perez recorded with the Berliner Symphoniker Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, and in October 2001, Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 in d minor (K466) together with the Venezuelan conductor Eduardo Marturet. She also toured with the Berliner Symphoniker in their 2001 Latin American Tour performing as guest soloist in The Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires; in Montevideo, Uruguay, and in Monterrey, Mexico. Other orchestras with whom she has performed as soloist are L'Orchestra "Pro Arte" Marche in Italy, and the most important orchestras in Venezuela including the Orquesta Sinfonica Simon Bolivar, in London she has also performed with the Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra.

In chamber music collaborations, she has performed at the Wigmore Hall, London; Schnittke Festival at the RAM , London; and Montpellier Festival, France; she has also collaborated with renowned Spanish Soprano Isabel Rey and have performed together at the Opernhaus, Zurich; Dresdner Musik Festspiele , Dresden; and for the Lirica privanza's 3er Cicle d' Opera in Barcelona, Spain. In March of 2002, she received a unique invitation by Grammy award trumpeter and composer Arturo Sandoval to perform at The Blue Note in New York, where she was introduced by him to perform his work for piano titled "Sureña."

Actively involved in 20th century and new music, Ms Perez has performed works and collaborated with composers such as Paul Moravec, Suzanne Farrin, Lowell Liebermann, and Alfred Schnnitke among others.

In 1998, she was awarded the Jose Felix Ribas Prize, highest honor given by the president of Venezuela to a young artist who has contributed to the enhancement of the country.

In the US she studied with Rosalina Sackstein and Ena Bronstein. At the age of 17 she was awarded a full scholarship by the Royal Academy of Music, London, studying with Christopher Elton. After graduating she continued her studies in Italy at the Accademia Pianistica " Incontri Col Maestro" in Imola with pianists Lazar Berman, and Franco Scala. Later on she completed postgraduate studies at Yale University with Hungarian pianist Peter Frankl. Among other musicians who have strongly contributed to her musical growth are Richard Goode, Tamas Vasary, Claude Frank, Boris Berman, Lynn Harrell, Zubin Mehta, Lev Naumov and Dimitri Bashkirov.

Miss Perez performed on the La Jolla Music Society "Discovery" series in San Diego and at Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall in New York City in 2004. Recordings of her performances have recently been featured on various media, including Robert Sherman's Young Artists' Showcase on WQXR-FM in New York City, WFMT in Chicago and Boston's WGBH. Her first of a Series of recital CD's for the label VAI was released in the Fall of 2005.

Recent Performances in 2007 have taken place in London, Puerto Rico, South America , the 2006 New York International Keyboard Institute & Festival, in Colombia with the Filarmonica de Bogota under Diazmunoz, recitals in Mexico, concerto performances with conductors Gustav Meier, with the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, Miami Symphony Orchestra, a tour in Germany with conductor John Axelrod and the Luzerne Sinfonie Orchester and with conductor Gustavo Dudamel in Caracas and the Orquesta de la Juventud Simon Bolivar.

She performed the Prokofiev 3rd Piano Concerto at the Casals Festival in March 2008 with the Orquesta de La Juventud Simon Bolivar, and looks forward to duo recitals in Peru and Colombia for TQ producciones with pianist Gabriela Montero. She has recorded a CD with cellist Jan Vogler and violinist Colin Jacobsen which was released by SONY in Fall 2008.

http://www.vanessaperez.com

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