Boris Cepeda (born September 26, 1974, in

Quito Quito (; ), officially San Francisco de Quito, is the capital city, capital and second-largest city of Ecuador, with an estimated population of 2.8 million in its metropolitan area. It is also the capital of the province of Pichincha Province, P ...

) is a German-Ecuadorian

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and

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Biography

Boris Cepeda got his first piano lessons at four. He appeared in public for the first time in Ecuadorian television at five. Since then he has performed worldwide. Boris Cepeda studied at the

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in the class of Kurt Seibert. In 1999 he became assistant manager to the artistic director of the Festiva
Weidener Max-Reger-Tage
From 2002 to 2007 he acted as

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at the

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Ecuador Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contain ...

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. Since 2016 he is Head of Music at the Municipal Theater of Münster 2019 he was appointed lecturer for score reading at the Robert Schumann University of Music in Düsseldorf. 2023 he relocated to Atlanta, Georgia, under a visa for individuals with extraordinary abilities.

Awards

2022 Fellowship for innovation in digital higher education teaching 2021 Steinway Artist

References

External links

official Website
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