Carmen Alvarez --- Classical Pianist Concert pianist born in Uruguay. Includes biography, sound bites, concert reviews, photos, etc. http://www.carmenalvarez.com/
Carmen Alvarez Biography of carmen alvarez in the World Concert Artist Directory A pianist of rare poetry and technical virtuosity An artist of exceptional talent and musical maturity phrases that have http://www.concertartist.info/bios/alvarez.html
Extractions: Piano "A pianist of rare poetry and technical virtuosity ... An artist of exceptional talent and musical maturity" These are the phrases that have been used to describe the artistry of Carmen Alvarez Born in Uruguay, Ms. Alvarez was acclaimed at a very early age by her native country as a "new standard for artistic measure". She has been the recipient of many distinguished awards such as The Concert Artist Guild in New York City, The Dealey Award and The Jeunnesses Musicales International Competition. Her continuous success has taken her to three continents where she has performed in many prestigious concert halls such as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York City, The Musikverein in Vienna, The Otto Braun Saal in Berlin and The Queen Elizabeth Complex in London. Adding to her touring of Europe and the Americas, she has appeared in Japan where she performed and gave masterclasses. The European critics have applauded her "true artistry" and "impregnable technique, infused with poetic imagination". Her London debut was praised by the critics as "crystalline, impeccable, with a certainty of technique and impulse that conveys to the full the music's ardour and brilliance." Her latest CD of French Impressionist and Spanish masterworks of the 20th century was acclaimed by critic Washington Roldan as "exceptional musicianship and first-rate technique ... Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit is presented by Carmen Alvarez with a total grasp of its range and nuance. The interpretation of the three fragments is not only diaphanous but also expressively penetrating".
Carmen De Vicente's Photo Album carmen performing with the pianist, Joseph Holt, at the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC Mayor of Madrid, Jose Maria alvarez del Manzano. carmen posing with the Mayor of http://www.carmendevicente.com/album.html
Extractions: Requiebros Photos Stage Photos Carmen performing with the pianist, Joseph Holt, at the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC Carmen performing with the well-known Russian pianist, Nina Kereseli, in Salamanca, Spain Carmen performing with the Choral Arts Society of Washington, DC, USA at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall Carmen performing with pianist, Joseph Holt, at the Interamerican Development Bank in Washington, DC Carmen performing with the Muncipal Symphony Orchestra of Madrid, Spain back to top Official Occasions Carmen lecturing the Library of Congress about the art of castanets in Washington, DC, USA Carmen perfoming at the Embassy of Spain in Washington, DC, USA Carmen during her recent visit to the Royal Conservatory of Madrid, with Rosa Ruiz, professor at the Conservatory Carmen during her recent visit to the Royal Conservatory of Madrid, with a group of students back to top Personal Snapshots Carmen speaking with the former President of Spain, Jose Maria Aznar Carmen posing with Placido Domingo after their performance Carmen posing with Jose Carreras Carmen posing with John Secada Carmen posing with the Mayor of Madrid, Jose Maria Alvarez del Manzano
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Untitled Document Arte Mixto. Bakuleye. Bamboleo. carmen Flores. Enrique alvarez. Issac Delgado Vitier, Silvio Rodriguez, Pablo Milanes and with pianist Frank Fernandez, as well as established Charanga http://www.ahinama.com/enriquebio.htm
Extractions: -None Selected- 3 De La Habana Ad Libitum Arte Mixto Bakuleye Bamboleo Carmen Flores Enrique Alvarez Issac Delgado Laito Laito Jr. Last Word in Cuban Music Los Naranjos Los Novo Los Zafiros Manolin Maraca Rolo Martinez Siempre Juntos Volume 1 Volume 2 Enrique Alvarez Enrique Alvarez Navarro is a founding member and director of the popular orchestra Charanga Latina as well as an outstanding violinist and composer of many Cuban hits. He was born in 1952 in the province of Camaguey, Cuba. Enrique comes from a long line of musicians. His grandfather, father, brother, and son are all respected Cuban artists. Enrique began studying music at the age of 4 under the tutelage of the highly regarded professor, Carmelo Alvarez. His classmates at the Escluela Macional de Arte de La Ciudad de La Habana, are now some of Cuba's finest players: Arturo Sandoval, Paquito D'Rivera, Juan Pablo Torres, Ignacio Berroa and his brother Adalberto Alvarez. At the age of 6, Enrique played violin in a children's orchestra which performed "Charanga Francesa". This music was played by ensembles that included a few violins, flutes and other instruments. They were responsible for popularizing rhythms such as the danzon and the cha cha cha decades before this music became known worldwide. The "Charanga Francesa" groups also played sones, boleros, and other Cuban rhythms in their own special style. This was the beginning of Enrique's vocation as a "charanguero".
Montevideo Review, 31.1.2000 starts with one of the most coveted feats a concert pianist could aim to the coloristicrefinement of the French school, is presented by carmen alvarez with a http://www.carmenalvarez.com/800X600/montevideo.htm
Extractions: El Pais, Montevideo Monday 31 January, 2000 Carmen Alvarez releases a disc that demonstrates technical maturity and artistry Piano masterworks Critic: I Washington Roldan Carmen Alvarez was one of the last pupils that the great Kolischer tutored. Later on she perfected her studies under the Russian Alexander Uninsky and graduated from the Juilliard School in New York. She won several competitions in Montevideo, New York, and Dallas, where she met and was married to an American violist. She never returned to Uruguay. Since she left our country we lost complete sight of her and did not know anything about her career, which has been very active and successful. It first developed in the USA, and later included tours in Europe and Japan. Piano masterpieces: Recorded in London Composers: Ravel, Mompou, Albeniz Granados Artist: Carmen Alvarez The Embassy of Uruguay in Great Britain recently sent us a CD of Ms. Alvarez, which has resulted in a complete rediscovery of her pianistic talent, who since very young chose to look for better opportunities outside our country. She now resides in London. She is remembered as a very promising performer through her earlier recitals and concerto performances. But what now comes from this intelligent selection is a mature and intense personality with a first rate technique and a richness and quality of sound that is rare to find today. The disc is produced with well presented professionalism, and comprehensive program notes provided by Gerald Larner of the London Times, and a compelling acoustical sonority that gives full justice to the subtleties of the performer and to the tonal range of the Steinway that she uses.
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Extractions: El Pais, Montevideo Monday 31 January, 2000 Carmen Alvarez releases a disc that demonstrates technical maturity and artistry Piano masterworks Critic: I Washington Roldan Carmen Alvarez was one of the last pupils that the great Kolischer tutored. Later on she perfected her studies under the Russian Alexander Uninsky and graduated from the Juilliard School in New York. She won several competitions in Montevideo, New York, and Dallas, where she met and was married to an American violist. She never returned to Uruguay. Since she left our country we lost complete sight of her and did not know anything about her career, which has been very active and successful. It first developed in the USA, and later included tours in Europe and Japan. Piano masterpieces: Recorded in London Composers: Ravel, Mompou, Albeniz Granados Artist: Carmen Alvarez The Embassy of Uruguay in Great Britain recently sent us a CD of Ms. Alvarez, which has resulted in a complete rediscovery of her pianistic talent, who since very young chose to look for better opportunities outside our country. She now resides in London. She is remembered as a very promising performer through her earlier recitals and concerto performances. But what now comes from this intelligent selection is a mature and intense personality with a first rate technique and a richness and quality of sound that is rare to find today. The disc is produced with well presented professionalism, and comprehensive program notes provided by Gerald Larner of the London Times, and a compelling acoustical sonority that gives full justice to the subtleties of the performer and to the tonal range of the Steinway that she uses.
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Extractions: Kritiken zu TACET 106 / Reviews for TACET 106 Empfohlen von klassik.com classicstoday.com: "Heard in concert, this well-prepared and sensitively nuanced "Trout" would satisfy the pickiest concertgoer. On disc, however, a few factors keep it at a position just below the work's top recorded contenders. These include a rather abrasive tonal quality to loud unison string tuttis (the Scherzo's scampering opening measures, for instance, and throughout the Finale, despite the great care taken with balances and dynamics), self-conscious phrasings and articulations in the variations movement that border on mannerism, occasional technical blemishes (the first violinist's high-lying trills in the latter movement), and less-than suave passage-work triplets in the outer movements. Pianist Carmen Piazzini may grace the "Trout" with her crisp, beautifully shaded contributions, but beware her drab and prosaic Four Impromptus D. 899. She seems to take forever intoning the C minor's bald opening phrase, and either picks at the obsessive accompanying triplets or doggedly runs them into the ground. She over-phrases the E-flat Impromptu's minor-key sections yet articulates the main part's vertiginous scales without the evenness and poise Murray Perahia and Radu Lupu bring to this piece. No amount of "meaningful" rubato on Piazzini's part can disguise her basic plodding and dourly foursquare concept of the sublime G-flat Impromptu. As it turns out, my least favorite Impromptu (No. 4) gets the most interesting performance. I enjoyed Piazzini's spiky articulation of the right hand arpeggiated figures and her judicious gauging of the central episode's long lines.
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Extractions: Sunier on Hi-Res , Part 2 (with a little help where noted) (John Sunier, long-time audiophile journalist and reviewer, has been a member of the Positive Feedback community for ten years. As editor of Audiophile Audition www.audaud.com ) and an "Editor of the Round Table," John and company will be contributing to PF Online by allowing the use of his and fellow audaud.com contributors' hi-res audio reviews.) Billy Joel, Joel selected a better pianist than himself to record the works and the session was held in Vienna because of the musical/philosophical connections for him. He alludes in his own notes to ghosts or spirits—that there is something in the atmosphere in Vienna that connects one to this sort of music. That connected me with the recordings by Rosemary Brown of some years back who claimed to have a string of famous composers such as Schubert and Beethoven dictate new piano pieces to her from the Beyond. Joel's pieces remind me strongly of Brown's - having many qualities undeniably of the particular composer in question but still sounding like that composer on a rather "off" day. The most original aspect of this CD is the cover art—an accurate imitation of the front of the G. Schirmer piano music collections which every piano student has carried around and struggled with. John Sunier
French Culture | Music | CD New Releases | Classical Index Jessye Norman s carmen is controversial. of Europe Teldec 092747334 (3 CD183.23)French pianist Pierre-Laurent Marcelo alvarez is a smooth-voiced Des Grieux. http://www.frenchculture.org/music/cd/classical/
Extractions: EMI's Great Recordings of the Century series includes a dozen classic recordings of French artists and repertoire, including pianists Samson Francois and Alfred Corto t, violinist Jacques Thibaud , and conductor Bizet 's opera Carmen , German pianist Walter Gieseking's inimitable interpretations of Claude Debussy' s piano works, Aldo Ciccolini's definitive version of Eric Satie 's brilliant piano miniatures, and soprano Victoria de los Angeles's groundbreaking version of Canteloube 's Songs of the Auvergne Click here for a full list of French Great Recordings of the Century Opera Magazine's Greatest French Operas
Artistic Schedule By Seats. Cubadisco 2003. and the Polyphonic Chorus from Havana, conducted by master carmen Collado 700 pm,Concert of the North American pianist Úrsula Oppens 1130 pm, Adalberto alvarez. http://www.cubadisco.soycubano.com/cubadisco2003/programacioni.asp
Extractions: This disappointing Carmen was recorded in Bordeaux in 1994. The cast is weak. French mezzo Beatrice Uria-Monzon has a light, pleasant instrument but she lacks personality (her Lamour est un oiseau rebelle is blandly subdued). Tenor Christian Papiss Don José is clunky and unidiomatic. His La fleur que tu mavais jetée is creaky and feeble. Romanian soprano Leontina Vaduva is miscast as Micaëla. Her Slavic sound is too thick and sharp for the ingenue role. Vincent le Texiers Escamillo is a cipher. His Toast aria sounds geriatric. Lombards conducting is not bad and the band plays well, but without a cast, whats the point?
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Extractions: Joel selected a better pianist than himself to record the works and the session was held in Vienna because of the musical/philosophical connections for him. He alludes in his own notes to ghosts or spirits - that there is something in the atmosphere in Vienna that connects one to this sort of music. That connected me with the recordings by Rosemary Brown of some years back who claimed to have a string of famous composers such as Schubert and Beethoven dictate new piano pieces to her from the Beyond. Joel's pieces remind me strongly of Brown's - having many qualities undeniably of the particular composer in question but still sounding like that composer on a rather "off" day. The most original aspect of this CD is the cover art - an accurate imitation of the front of the G. Schirmer piano music collections which every piano student has carried around and struggled with. Purchase Here
USC Thornton Faculty carmen Bradford, adjunct assistant professor, jazz studies toured internationallywith jazz pianist Monty Alexander. flamenco critic Angel alvarez Caballero as http://www.usc.edu/music/faculty/facjazz.html
Extractions: page 3 (P - Z) David Arnay , adjunct assistant professor, jazz studies, is an active and highly regarded pianist, composer, music teacher and consultant in the Los Angeles area. A member of the jazz studies faculty at the Thornton School of Music and Pasadena City College, David devotes most weekday hours to his students, while performing several nights each week leading his own jazz group, as soloist, or as sideman with guitarist Phil Upchurch, reedman Bennie Maupin and others. During the summer of 2002 his trio was featured at the Pori (Finland) Jazz Festival. Jennifer Barnes Shelton Berg Carmen Bradford , adjunct assistant professor, jazz studies, studied classical music at Huston-Tillotson College in Austin, TX. She has worked on performance and recording projects with the likes of James Brown, Lou Rawls, Willie Nelson, Lena Horne, Tony Bennett, Joe Williams, Nancy Wilson and Herbie Hancock. In the early eighties, Ms. Bradford worked as the vocalist for Count Basie's world-renowned Orchestra. After touring with Count Basie for nine years and performing on two of his Grammy award-winning albums, Ms. Bradford embarked on a critically acclaimed solo career, including the albums Finally Yours (Amazing Records) and With Respect (Evidence Records). She also performed on George Benson's recording, Big Boss Band, and contributed tracks to The Benny Carter Songbook, both Grammy award-winning albums.
