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founded the Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship . The only conductor to receive a MacArthur Fellowship , she has also been honored with the World Economic Forum ’ s Crystal Award . The Conductor , a documentary about her life , was nominated for an Emmy and recognized with a Naples International Film Festival award .
Gabriela Montero
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Gabriela Montero ’ s visionary interpretations and unique compositional gifts have garnered her critical acclaim and a devoted following on the world stage . Anthony Tommasini remarked in The New York Times that “ Montero ’ s playing had everything : crackling rhythmic brio , subtle shadings , steely power … soulful lyricism … unsentimental expressivity .”
Montero ’ s forthcoming highlights feature performances of her own “ Latin Concerto ” with the San Francisco Symphony ( Marin Alsop ), New World Symphony ( Stéphane Denève ), Vienna and Polish National radio symphonies ( Marin Alsop ), BBC Scottish and Antwerp symphonies ( Elim Chan ), Swedish Radio Symphony ( Marta Gardolińska ), and National Arts Centre Orchestra ( Alexander Shelley ).
An award-winning and bestselling recording artist , her most recent
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Gabriela Ortiz
Born December 20 , 1964 in Mexico City , Mexico Resides in Mexico City , Mexico
ANTRÓPOLIS [ 2019 ]
In a past life , Gabriela Ortiz might have been a flamenco dancer — or so the composer mused in an interview with NPR Music . A certain rhythmic moxie imbues Ortiz ’ s music with its distinctive sound . The Mexico City native draws album , released in 2019 on the Orchid Classics label , features her “ Latin Concerto ” and Ravel ’ s Piano Concerto in G Major , recorded with the Orchestra of the Americas . Her previous recording on Orchid Classics features Rachmaninov ’ s Piano Concerto No . 2 and her first orchestral composition , Ex Patria , which won Montero her first Latin GRAMMY for Best Classical Album .
Born in Venezuela , 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 . Starting September 2024 , Montero will be the Jonathan and Linn Epstein Artist in Residence , and piano faculty member , at the Cleveland Institute of Music .
liberally from the myriad influences that shaped her city ’ s musical heritage : African rhythms , introduced into the region in the sixteenth century ; indigenous and folk rhythms ; and the rhythms of Spanish and broader European musical forebears , including one of Ortiz ’ s favorites , Stravinsky . The resultant alchemy , stunningly adroit and highly danceable , has catapulted Ortiz to international recognition .
In Antrópolis , Ortiz pays nostalgic tribute to the storied dance halls of Mexico City . The title , a neologism conjured by Ortiz and Mexican flutist / composer Alejandro Escuer , derives from the Spanish
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