OSORIO, JORGE FEDERICO
Jorge Federico Osorio
Recognized as one of the preeminent pianists of our time, Jorge
Federico Osorio has been internationally acclaimed for his superb musicianship
and absolute command of the instrument. He has performed with many of the worlds
leading orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Symphony,
Detroit Symphony, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, Orchestre Nationale
de France, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Moscow State
Orchestra and Warsaw Philharmonic, under the batons of such internationally
acclaimed conductors as Bernard Haitnik, Lorin Maazel, Klaus Tennstedt, Eduardo
Mata, Lukas Foss, Enrique Batiz, and Luis Herrera de la Fuente. His concert
tours have taken him to North America, Europe, Asia and Central and South America
and American festival appearances have included the Hollywood Bowl, Ravinia
and Grant Park Festivals. In addition to his recent triumphant debut with the
Chicago Symphony Orchestra and his critically acclaimed Lincoln Center recital
debut at Alice Tully Hall, Mr. Osorio has performed with the orchestras of Pasadena,
San Antonio, Northbrook, and Delaware and with the Pacific Symphony Orchestra.
He has made radio recordings for Japan NHK and Belgian Radio, and on several
occasions, for the BBC.
Mr. Osorios extensive discography includes a wide variety
of repertoire. His solo Brahms recording on ASV was proclaimed by Gramophone
as one of the most distinguished discs of Brahms piano music in recent years.
IMP Classics has recently released his recordings of Beethovens Five Piano
Concerti and Choral Fantasy, and in addition to his orchestral recordings of
works by Brahms, Mozart, Rachmaninov, Schumann and Tchaikovsky, Mr. Osorio made
the world premier recording of Manuel Ponces Piano Concerto. He has also recorded
four Beethoven Sonatas and Balada Mexicana, solo piano works of Ponce.
Born in Mexico, Mr. Osorio began his musical studies at the
age of five. He studied at the conservatories of Mexico, Paris and Moscow, and
his teachers have included his mother, Luz Maria Puente, Bernard Flavigny, Monique
Haas, Jacob Milstein, Nadia Reisenberg and Wilhelm Kempff. Performing chamber
music is an integral part of his artistic life and in addition to having served
as artistic director of the Brahms Music Festival in Mexico, he has performed
with the Moscow Quartet, Tel Aviv Quartet, violinist Mayumi Fujikawa and cellist
Richard Markson as part of a piano trio and with the late Henryk Szeryng. He
is the recipient of several international prizes and awards, including the Rhode
Island International Master Piano Competition and the Dallas Symphony Orchestras
Gina Bachauer Award.
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