Grand
Piano Festival Performers
SERGIO MONTEIRO
Friday,
April 29 at 7:30 p.m.
Graham Tyler Memorial Chapel, Parkville Campus
Praised by critics as “one of the most promising up and coming South
American pianists of the past few years”, Sergio Monteiro was born in
Rio De Janeiro and began studying piano at the age of five.
In 2003 he received the first prize in the Martha Argerich International
Competition, which took place at the legendary Teatro Colon, in Buenos
Aires. Monteiro gave a performance of Bartok’s Concerto No. 3 under the
direction of conductor Charles Dutoit, former music director of the
Montreal Symphony Orchestra. At this concert, Monteiro received a
20-minute standing ovation.
For the 2004-05 season, Monteiro will play at the Kennedy Center, in
Washington D.C.; in Thailand, with the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra; in
Buenos Aires with the Buenos Aires Philharmonic Orchestra, and in Japan,
Italy and Paris. Recently he was selected to take part in the
prestigious International Piano Academy at Como, Italy, where he will
take master classes with some of the most important pianist and
teachers, such as Leon Fleisher, Dmitri Bashkirov and Murray Perahia.
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