Athenaeum Summer Festival 2013
with pianist Gustavo Romero

Gustavo Romero

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.

Sundays at 4 PM
July 7, 14, 21, & 28
Call (858) 454-5872 to reserve

Series tickets (All four performances):
Keyboard - $172 member/$192 nonmember
Non-keyboard - $132 member/$152 nonmember
With Dinner - $620

Single Performance Tickets:
Keyboard - $45 member/$50 nonmember
Non-keyboard - $35 member/$40 nonmember
With Dinner - $165

July 7th
 

July 14th


July 21st


July 28th

Program & Piano Pedagogy Lecture Tickets:
Series - $40 member/$60 nonmember


Individual - $12 member/$17 nonmember
July 2nd- Corresponding to the July 7th Concert


July 9th- Corresponding to the July 14th Concert


July 17th- Corresponding to the July 21st Concert


July 23rd- Corresponding to the July 28th Concert

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
- 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.

Athenaeum Summer Festivals

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.

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