Gustavo Romero
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We are pleased to announce our dates for our 14th Athenaeum Summer Festival. Celebrated pianist Gustavo Romero [www.GustavoRomero.com] returns in summer 2012 for a four-part concert series, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Claude Debussy. Please join us.
All concerts will begin at 4 p.m. with dinners immediately following in a private home or at the Athenaeum Music & Art Library.
Concerts take place at The Neurosciences Institute, located at 10640 John Jay Hopkins Dr., La Jolla, CA 92037.
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In the spring of 1976, a talented young San Diego pianist gave his first
public performance as part of the Monday noon Mini-Concert series at the
Athenaeum. Gustavo Romero was only eleven years old at the time, but had
already established a reputation for his extraordinary talent and musicianship.
After that early concert, the pianist performed with the New York
Philharmonic at the age of 13, the Boston Pops Orchestra at 16,
and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at 18. After graduating from the
Juilliard School of Music, Romero was the 1989 winner of the prestigious
Clara Haskil Piano Competition in Switzerland, and this opened Europe
to him. Since then, the pianist has played with other leading orchestras
including Radio France Orchestra, Philharmonia Hungarica, and the
Liege Philharmonic, with which he appeared on tour and in a concert
internationally telecast from the United Nations. He has also appeared
at major festivals including New York's Mostly Mozart Festival,
the Aspen Music Festival, the Montpellier Festival in France, and
the Montreux Festival in Switzerland. As a recitalist, Romero is in demand throughout the world. Since
1999, the Athenaeum has presented Romero’s “cycles,”
devoted to specific composers, for which he is now widely known.
Since Gustavo had memorized all of Chopin’s music, Erika Torri
saw the opportunity to create a signature event to commemorate the
library’s 100th anniversary. Following the Athenaeum anniversary
performance, Gustavo took his ambitious Chopin series to New York’s
Alice Tully Hall, where he headlined a three-hour marathon, featuring
over two dozen American pianists and honoring Chopin's 150th anniversary.
Athenaeum Summer Festivals
1999 Chopin 2000 Bach 2001 Beethoven
2002 Beethoven
2003 Mozart
2004 Mozart
2005 Schubert 2006 Schumann
2007 Brahms
2008 Ten Years, Seven Composers,
One Pianist
2009 Haydn and Mendelssohn
2010 Frédéric François Chopin
2011 Franz Liszt
These concerts are made possible in part, thanks to funding from the City of San Diego through a program managed by the Commission for Arts and Culture and the County of San Diego. |