Critical acclaims :
"The playing is authoritative, incontrovertibly Beethovenian in recreating the composer's style, technically immaculate and compelling in the extreme. One came away convinced that these five sonatas...had been analyzed and probed thoroughly" - Los Angeles Times
"Mr. Romero has great agility, adequate power and an unusually large repertory of colors and dynamic levels. More important, these virtues evoked a sense of the music at hand rather than mere piano technique." - The New York Times
Mexican-American pianist Gustavo Romero has a stellar reputation for both the technical brilliance and interpretive depth of his playing, as well as his commitment to in-depth exploration of individual composers. For the past seven years, he has prepared a series of concerts focusing on the music of one composer. So far, he has presented the works of Chopin, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Schumann, Schubert, and Brahms (2007). These concerts take place initially at the Athenaeum Summer Festival in La Jolla , California , and during this Festival, Mr. Romero also lectures on the artists at the University of California , San Diego .
Mr. Romero, a native of San Diego , California with heritage in Guadalajara , Mexico , discovered his love and gift for music at age five, when being introduced to the piano of a neighbor. He started taking lessons, and gave his first public performances at the age of 10, while also winning his first piano competition. His early teachers included Ilana Mysior.
Following a recommendation by Bohemian pianist Rudolf Serkin, Gustavo moved to New York City to attend, and graduate from The Juilliard School. In 1983 he won the Avery Fisher Young Artist Career Grant, and in 1989 First Prize in the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition in Switzerland . In 2004, Dallas radio station WRR selected one of his concerts as the best performance of the year.
After five years as assistant professor at the University of Illinois/Champaign, Mr. Romero is now associate professor of piano at the University of North Texas . Highlights of the 2007/08 season include recitals and orchestral engagements in Bangkok , Taipei , Hong Kong and Italy , as well as a tour of South Africa including appearances with orchestras in Johannesburg and Capetown. During this season, Mr. Romero will launch a three-year cycle of all the Beethoven sonatas in seven recitals in Johannesburg , Capetown, and Palm Springs and Mozart duo-piano recitals in Venice and Vicenza , Italy with Massimo Somenzi. In Fall 2005, he performed duo-piano music in concert with Darío Ntaca of Argentina . In August 2005 he was featured in solo recitals at Massey University ( Wellington , New Zealand ), Mahidol University ( Bangkok , Thailand ), and in a concerto performance with the Martha Argerich Sinfonietta ( Buenos Aires , Argentina ). Master classes were a prominent part of this tour.
In 2004, he completed a two-year Mozart cycle: The Complete Piano Sonatas, Fantasies, and Rondos as well as the Complete Four Hand and Two Piano Works with pianist Massimo Somenzi in concerts across the United States .
For Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto in A minor he was both soloist and conductor in California and Texas. His complete traversal of Chopin’s solo piano works in six sold-out concerts received numerous critical accolades including the Los Angeles Times. Mr. Romero has performed as piano soloist with the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Atlanta, Houston, Boston Pops, Albuquerque, Austin, Pittsburgh, Honolulu, New World Symphonies, English Chamber Orchestra, Radio France Orchestra, Philharmonia Hungarica, New Japan Philharmonic, Shanghai Orchestra, Cape Town Philharmonic, Russian Symphony Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra, and the Liège Philharmonic, a concert internationally broadcast from the United Nations headquarters. He has presented concerts around the globe, and appeared at major music festivals around the world.
With Koch records, Mr. Romero has recorded Chopin, Mompou, Debussy, and the five Beethoven concertos with the English Chamber Orchestra. He maintains residences in New York City , Dallas , and San Diego .
BEETHOVEN SONATAS
Sonata in G Major, Opus 49, No. 2 (1796)
I. Allegro ma non troppo
II. Tempo di menuetto
Sonata in D minor, Opus 31, No. 2 ("Tempest") (1802)
I. Largo - Allegro
II. Adagio
III. Allegretto
Sonata in D Major, Opus 10, No. 3 (1798)
I. Presto
II. Largo e mesto
III. Menuetto (Allegro)
IV. Rondo (Allegro)
INTERMISSION
Sonata in C minor, Opus 111 (1822)
I. Maestoso - Allegro con brio ed appassionato
II. Arietta (Adagio molto semplice e cantabile)
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