Sergio Tiempo is the guest soloist at the opening concert of the Competition
May 15, 2012 |
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The Venezuelan soloist Sergio Tiempo, who studied under Martha Argerich and Nelson Freire, is one of the greatest performers in contemporary piano today. He has already played with the Chicago, Houston, Montreal, and Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestras and the Los Angeles, Tokyo, Rotterdam and Radio France Philharmonics, building a distinguished career on the international scenario, under the baton of prestigious conductors, such as Abbado, Dudamel, Dutoit and Slatkin. Tiempo’s recordings for Deutsche Grammophon and EMI Classics have been highly acclaimed by critics, and he has been requested to play major festivals such as Salzburg.
Tiempo is the guest pianist for BNDES International Piano Competition of Rio de Janeiro to perform the opening concert of the 2012 edition as soloist with the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra. Under the baton of Roberto Tibiriçá, the presentation scheduled for November 25th at the Municipal Theater will bring the audience works by Ravel, Tchaikovsky and Almeida Prado, the latter being the honored composer of this year’s Competition.
Get to know Sergio Tiempo biography.
SERGIO TIEMPO
Described by Gramophone magazine as “a colourist in love with the infinite variety a piano can produce”, Sergio Tiempo has developed a reputation as one of the most individual and thought-provoking pianists of his generation. Tiempo established his international credentials at an early age, making his professional debut at the age of fourteen at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. A tour of the USA and a string of engagements across Europe quickly followed. Since then he has appeared with many of the world’s leading orchestras and conductors and is a frequent guest at major festivals worldwide.
Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Tiempo began his piano studies with his mother, Lyl Tiempo, at the age of two and made his concert debut when he had just turned three. Whilst at the Fondazione per il Pianoforte in Como, Italy, he worked with Dimitri Bashkirov, Fou Tsong, Murray Perahia and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. He has received frequent musical guidance and advice from Martha Argerich, Nelson Freire and Nikita Magaloff and performs regularly with fellow-countryman and friend Gustavo Dudamel including concerts with the Simón Bolívar Orchestra.
Sergio Tiempo has made a number of highly distinctive and acclaimed recordings. On EMI Classics’ ‘Martha Argerich Presents’ label, he recorded Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition, Ravel Gaspard de la Nuit and three Chopin Nocturnes, and for Deutsche Gramophon he has recorded several discs with Mischa Maisky, including a disc of Rachmaninov which was awarded five stars by Classic FM and the BBC Music Magazine, which also named it their benchmark recording. In June 2010, Tiempo gave the world premiere of a new work for two pianos and orchestra Tango Rhapsody by Argentinean composer Federico Jusid with Karin Lechner and the RSI Lugano under Jacek Kaspszyk at the Martha Argerich Festival in Lugano, where he is a visitor each year. Most recently, Sergio Tiempo released a disc of French music for two pianos with Karin Lechner for Avanti Classic entitled La Belle Epoque.
Recent concerto highlights for Tiempo have included return visits to the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in Paris and on tour to his native South America, the Singapore Symphony and the Music Days in Lisbon Festival, as well as debuts with the BBC Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony, Northern Sinfonia, Queensland Orchestra and the Auckland Philharmonia. Recent recital engagements have included a sell-out recital debut at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London in the International Piano Series, debuts at the Vienna Konzerthaus, London’s Wigmore Hall, the Berlin Philharmonie and Edinburgh International Festival as well as return visits to the Oslo Chamber Music Festival and the Warsaw Chopin Festival.
Highlights of the 2011/12 season and beyond include two return engagements with the Los Angeles Philharmonic with both Gustavo Dudamel and Nicholas McGegan and return engagements with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, a European tour with the Buenos Aires Philharmonic Orchestra and debuts with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra and Orquestra Nacional do Porto as well as recital tours of Seoul, Italy and South America.
