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Gustavo Romero
We are pleased to announce our dates for our 15th Athenaeum Summer Festival. Celebrated pianist Gustavo Romero [www.GustavoRomero.com] returns this summer for a four-part concert series, celebrating composers Maurice Ravel and Sergei Rachmaninoff. Please join us.
All concerts begin at 4 p.m. with dinners immediately following in a private home or at the Athenaeum Music & Art Library.
Concerts take place at The Scripps Research Institute, located at 10640 John Jay Hopkins Dr., La Jolla, CA 92037.
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Sunday, July 7, 4 PM
Maurice Ravel
- Menuet antique
- Valses nobles et sentimentales
- Gaspard de la nuit
Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Sonata No. 2
*Corresponding lecture: July 2
Sunday, July 14, 4 PM
Maurice Ravel
- Serenade grotesque
- Sonatine
- Mirroirs
Sergei Rachmaninoff
- 6 Moments musicaux
*Corresponding lecture & interview: July 9
Sunday, July 21, 4 PM
Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Elegy
- Melodie
- Prelude in C-sharp Minor
Maurice Ravel
- Pavane
- Tombeau de Couperin
Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Variations on a Theme by Corelli
- 3 Etudes-tableaux
*Corresponding lecture: July 17
Sunday, July 28, 4 PM
Maurice Ravel
- Prelude
- A la manière de Chabrier
- A la manière de Borodin
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Menuet sur le nom de Haydn
- Jeux d'eau
Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Morceaux de fantaisie
- Barcarolle
- Oriental sketch
- 4 Etudes-tableaux
Sergei Rachmaninoff
- 6 Preludes
Maurice Ravel
- La valse
*Corresponding lecture: July 23
In the spring of 1976, a talented young San Diego pianist gave his first
public performance as part of the Monday noon Mini-Concert series at the
Athenaeum. Gustavo Romero was only eleven years old at the time, but had
already established a reputation for his extraordinary talent and musicianship. After that early concert, the pianist performed with the New York
Philharmonic at the age of 13, the Boston Pops Orchestra at 16,
and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at 18. After graduating from the
Juilliard School of Music, Romero was the 1989 winner of the prestigious
Clara Haskil Piano Competition in Switzerland, and this opened Europe
to him. Since then, the pianist has played with other leading orchestras
including Radio France Orchestra, Philharmonia Hungarica, and the
Liege Philharmonic, with which he appeared on tour and in a concert
internationally telecast from the United Nations. He has also appeared
at major festivals including New York's Mostly Mozart Festival,
the Aspen Music Festival, the Montpellier Festival in France, and
the Montreux Festival in Switzerland. As a recitalist, Romero is in demand throughout the world. Since
1999, the Athenaeum has presented Romero’s “cycles,”
devoted to specific composers, for which he is now widely known.
Since Gustavo had memorized all of Chopin’s music, Erika Torri
saw the opportunity to create a signature event to commemorate the
library’s 100th anniversary. Following the Athenaeum anniversary
performance, Gustavo took his ambitious Chopin series to New York’s
Alice Tully Hall, where he headlined a three-hour marathon, featuring
over two dozen American pianists and honoring Chopin's 150th anniversary.
1999 Chopin
2000 Bach
2001 Beethoven
2002 Beethoven
2003 Mozart
2004 Mozart
2005 Schubert
2006 Schumann
2007 Brahms
2008 Ten Years, Seven Composers, One Pianist
2009 Haydn and Mendelssohn
2010Frédéric François Chopin
2011 Franz Liszt
2012 Debussy
and Gershwin
These concerts are made possible in part, thanks to funding from the City of San Diego through a program managed by the Commission for Arts and Culture and the County of San Diego. |