GONZALEZ, GUILLERMO Born in Tenerife, pianist Guillermo González began music studies at the Tenerife Conservatory and continued with José Cubiles at the Madrid Conservatory. He later studied in Paris at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique and the Schola Cantorum, where he received the great impressionist piano tradition through his teachers V. Perlemuter and J.P. Sevilla. He also studied with M. Heuclin and S. Roche and won prizes at the Milan, Vercelli (Viotti), Jaén and Tenerife Piano Competitions.
Guillermo González has played recitals and concerts throughout the world and has performed with orchestras including the Strasbourg, Dresden, Liverpool, and Scottish Chamber Orchestras, and regularly with the most important Spanish orchestras. He is a consummate specialist in Spanish music repertoire, and has given the premières of works by contemporary Spanish composers, including Castillo, Coria, Cruz de Castro, García Abril, C. Halffter, and Oliver.
In 1998 he published a new edition of Albéniz’s Iberia, with the manuscript text of the composer, in a facsimile edition, an urtext edition (a printed copy of the manuscripts), and a revised edition, offered for the first time. This same text was used for the 1996 recording of the Suite Iberia which the Radio European Union (U.E.R.) broadcast live worldwide.
Guillermo González has been a piano professor at the Royal Music Conservatory of Madrid since 1974, and has been a frequent guest at international piano courses and competitions, being a regular guest professor at the Music Department of the University of Melbourne. Since 1990 he has been President of the Jaén International Piano Competition, which has awarded him its Golden Medal for his work. His recording Piano Works by Teobaldo Power was awarded Spain’s Grand National Prize for recording in 1980. In 1998 he recorded the Suite Iberia and the two Spanish Suites of Albéniz for Naxos (8.554311-12). He has also recorded the piano works of Ernesto Halffter and Alexander Scriabin.
In 1991 he was awarded the National Music Prize, the highest honour given by the Spanish State in this field. He was awarded the Premio Añavingo in 1993, and in 1994 received the Golden Medal of Tenerife and in 1996 the Medal of Villa de Garachico at its fifth Centennial. In 2001 he was awarded the CEOE Spain Foundation Prize for Musical Performance.
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