Alberto Urroz (born June 22, 1970 in

Pamplona Pamplona (; eu, Iruña or ), historically also known as Pampeluna in English, is the capital city of the Chartered Community of Navarre, in Spain. It is also the third-largest city in the greater Basque cultural region. Lying at near above ...

) is a Spanish classical

pianist A pianist ( , ) is an individual musician who plays the piano. Since most forms of Western music can make use of the piano, pianists have a wide repertoire and a wide variety of styles to choose from, among them traditional classical music, ja ...

. He studied piano with

Joaquín Soriano Joaquín Soriano (born in León, 1941) is a Spanish pianist. Trained in Valencia, he was a disciple of Vlado Perlemuter at the Conservatoire National de Paris. He won the 1965 Viotti Competition in Vercelli and the XI Premio de Jaén (1966); an i ...

at the Madrid Royal Conservatory. Later, he moved to Israel to study with

Pnina Salzman Pnina Salzman (Hebrew: פנינה זלצמן) (February 24, 1922, Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine – December 16, 2006, Tel Aviv, Israel) was an Israeli classical pianist and piano pedagogue. Salzman showed an early aptitude for the piano, and gave he ...

at the

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, and subsequently, on a

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state scholarship, with

Oxana Yablonskaya Oxana Yablonskaya (russian: Оксана Михайловна Яблонская; born December 6, 1938, Moscow) is a Russian pianist who has had an active international performance career since the early 1960s. She began her career in the USSR ...

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. Other teachers include Solomon Mikowsky and Donn-Alexander Feder at

Manhattan School of Music The Manhattan School of Music (MSM) is a private music conservatory in New York City. The school offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in the areas of classical and jazz performance and composition, as well as a bachelor's in mu ...

in New York, and masterclasses with György Sándor (Zumaia),

Fanny Waterman Dame Fanny Waterman (22 March 192020 December 2020) was a British pianist and academic piano teacher, who is particularly known as the founder, chair and artistic director of the Leeds International Piano Competition. She was also president of ...

(Valencia), Ena Bronstein Barton (Princeton) and Ana María Trenchi (NYC). He performs as a soloist throughout Europe, Asia and the USA in such venues as

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in New York, Sejong Center in Seoul and the

Festival Internacional de Santander The Festival Internacional de Santander (FIS) is one of Spain's oldest music festivals. Each year, during the month of August it presents two to three operas as well as performances from visiting ballet and theatre companies, solo recitals, and ch ...

and Peralada in Spain. Urroz is piano professor at the Alfonso X el Sabio University, Musical Arts Madrid and Arturo Soria Conservatory in Madrid, is founder and since 2004

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and founder of the

Mendigorría Mendigorría (Basque: ''Mendigorria'') is a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazona ...

International Music Festival in Spain, is president of the European Piano Teachers Association EPTA Spain since 2018, and is the cofounder and artistic director of the Madrid Shigeru Kawai Piano Competition (2019). Urroz has recorded works by D. Scarlatti, M. Sánchez Allú, I. Albéniz, Granados, de Falla and Mompou for Ibs Classical.

References

Mendigorría International Music Festival
(English/Spanish)
El País: Liszt en Mendigorría
(Spanish)
RNE: Maestros y discípulos: Joaquín Soriano
(Spanish)

External links

Alberto Urroz
- Official Website {{DEFAULTSORT:Urroz, Alberto 1970 births Living people People from Pamplona Spanish classical pianists Male classical pianists Madrid Royal Conservatory alumni 21st-century classical pianists 21st-century male musicians Musicians from Navarre Spanish male musicians