{"id":9626,"date":"2016-01-08T12:10:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T17:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vaearts.org\/US\/?p=9626"},"modified":"2018-03-15T00:51:43","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T04:51:43","slug":"011816-music-of-the-americas-presents-venezuelan-american-pianist-vanessa-perez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vaearts.org\/US\/011816-music-of-the-americas-presents-venezuelan-american-pianist-vanessa-perez\/","title":{"rendered":"01\/28\/16 Music of the Americas presents Venezuelan-American pianist Vanessa Perez"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nMusic of the Americas presents <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Venezuelan-American pianist\u00a0Vanessa Perez<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Featuring works by Manuel de Falla and Debussy, in celebration of her latest CD on the Steinway label,\u00a0Spain.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Date:<\/strong> January 28th, 2015, 7pm<\/span><\/p>\n

Address:<\/strong> Americas Society,\u00a0680 Park Avenue,\u00a0New York, NY<\/span><\/p>\n

Admission:<\/strong> FREE\u00a0for AS and YPA Members;\u00a0$20 for non-members.\u00a0No additional fees will be charged when purchasing online.\u00a0$10 tickets will be available for purchase at the door for students and seniors with ID.<\/span><\/p>\n

About the artist<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Vanessa Perez\u00a0was raised in Venezuela, where she began her studies in Caracas at Colegio\u00a0Emil Friedman with Luminita Duca. In the United States, she studied with Claudio Arrau pupils Ena Bronstein and Rosalina Sackstein. At 17, she won a full scholarship for London\u2019s Royal Academy of Music to study with Christopher Elton. She continued her studies with pianists Lazar Berman and Franco Scala at the Accademia Pianistica Incontri Col Maestro (Italy) and completed post-graduate studies with Peter Frankl at Yale University and pianist Daniel Epstein in New York City. Perez made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2004, but her NYC debut was in fact at the downtown jazz shrine of the Blue Note, where Latin jazz star Arturo Sandoval had her perform\u00a0Sure\u00f1a<\/em>, a piece laced with Venezuelan folk melodies. Beyond traditional classical concert performances, Perez has also collaborated in concert with Jos\u00e9 Lim\u00f3n Dance Company on the choreographer\u2019s\u00a0Mazurkas<\/em>\u00a0(2014).<\/span><\/p>\n

Perez has developed an international profile, performing in prestigious venues across the United States, Latin America, and Europe. She has performed alongside such renowned artists as pianist Ingrid Fliter, cellist Jan Vogler, violinist Colin Jacobsen, and conductors such\u00a0as\u00a0Gustavo Dudamel,\u00a0John Axelrod, Enrique Batiz, Gustav Meier, James Judd, David Gimenez Carreras, and Diego Matheuz. At age 11, she was invited to Caracas for her solo debut performing Grieg\u2019s Piano Concerto with the Orquesta Sinfonica Municipal under Carlos Riazuelo. Since her concerto debut, Perez has performed internationally in concert halls and festivals, known for her rich musicality and alluring stage personality. \u201cTo watch Perez play is an amazing show in itself\u2026Each phrase finishes in something similar to a caress of the keyboard, in a fast or slow gesture as suggested by the music’s momentum but always harmonious and beautiful” (El Clarin<\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\n

Recent performance highlights\u00a0include\u00a0the International Keyboard Institute & Festival in New York, the Gilmore international Keyboard Festival, and a collaboration with the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra under John Axelrod in Germany to concerts with the Orquesta de la Juventud Simon Bolivar under Dudamel\u00a0and\u00a0the Teresa Carreno Youth orchestra under Nikolaj Znaider\u00a0in Caracas, and\u00a0at the\u00a0Casals Festival under Diego Matheuz\u00a0in Puerto Rico. A frequent performer throughout the Americas, Perez has performed in the cultural capitals of Mexico, Brazil, Uruguay, Peru, and Argentina (Teatro Col\u00f3n); in Europe, in venues such as the Palau de la M\u00fasica (Barcelona), the Montpellier Festival (France), Beethoven-Haus (Germany), Wigmore Hall (London), and Stadhuis (Belgium). Actively involved in contemporary music, Perez has collaborated with and performed works by such composers as Paul Moravec, Lowell Liebermann, Suzanne Farrin, and Paul Desenne.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perez\u2019s recordings have\u00a0been featured on WQXR (New York), WFMT (Chicago), and WGBG (Boston), among others. Most recently she performed on Minnesota Public Radio, Texas Public\u00a0Radio, NPR’s \u201cAll Things Considered,\u201d and American Public Media\u2019s \u201cPerformance Today.\u201d Perez is a Steinway Artist.<\/span><\/p>\n

For tickets and information click here:\u00a0http:\/\/www.as-coa.org\/events\/vanessa-perez-spain<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Photo by:<\/strong> Maria Grazia Facciola<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Music of the Americas presents Venezuelan-American pianist\u00a0Vanessa Perez Featuring works by Manuel de Falla and Debussy, in celebration of her latest CD on the Steinway label,\u00a0Spain. Date: January 28th, 2015, 7pm Address: Americas Society,\u00a0680 Park Avenue,\u00a0New York, NY Admission: FREE\u00a0for AS and YPA Members;\u00a0$20 for non-members.\u00a0No additional fees will be charged when purchasing online.\u00a0$10 tickets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaearts.org\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaearts.org\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaearts.org\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaearts.org\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaearts.org\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9626"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/vaearts.org\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12009,"href":"https:\/\/vaearts.org\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9626\/revisions\/12009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaearts.org\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaearts.org\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaearts.org\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaearts.org\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}