Professor
Alvaro Pierri Guitar Alvaro Pierri was born in Montevideo, Uruguay to a musical family and was taught from an early age music and guitar. He completed his studies at the Uruguayan National Institute of Musicology and under Abel Carlevaro and Guido Santorsola. He participated in international guitar competitions where he won numerous first prizes including the gold medal and first prize at the 18th Paris International Guitar Competition, Radio France. Alvaro Pierri now teaches at the University of Quebec in Montreal, at McGill University and at Mozarteum in Salzburg, as well as conducting masterclasses and participating in festivals across the world. Professor Pierri pursues a very active career as a soloist and with orchestras and chamber groups playing troughout Europe, Japan and North and South America. He has given world premiers of works by composers such as Brouwer, Santorsola, Carlevaro, Rougier, Gonzales and others, many of these specially composed for him. As a chamber musician he has performed with numerous artists such as Astor Piazzolla, felow Uruguayan guitarist Eduardo Fernandez and Leo Brouwer. His discrography includes 12 CDs and his recordings have been nominated five times for the coveted FELIX award for the best classical CD of the year, a prize which he has won twice.
A Guitar Recital
Monday
16 January 2006, at 7:30 pm, Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall
Programme Part I
Part II
Part III
Master classes
Professor
Fernandez will conduct a guitar workshop/ master classes to take place at
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