Eduardo Delgado (born October 3, 1943) is an

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classical pianist and teacher living in

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. Born in Rosario, Argentina, Delgado is a recipient of the Vladimir Horowitz Award and has received grants from the Mozarteum Argentino, Martha Baird Rockefeller, and the Concert Artists Guild. In 1999, he was awarded by

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. Delgado has given recitals all over the world, in Europe, Asia, South America and North America.

Mentoring

Delgado has participated in international competition juries such as the William Kapell, the Gina Bachauer, and the Vega in Japan and in 2003 he served as a juror in the 2nd Martha Argerich International Piano Competition in

. In 2009 he was a member of the jury at the San Antonio International Piano Competition. He is also noted for his extensive work in teaching in universities and workshops in

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, mentoring, among others, Japanese pianist Atsuko Seta. He is a part-time instructor at the California State University, Fullerton, where he has established a scholarship fund for pianists in tribute to the renowned late pianist Alicia de Larrocha. To promote this fund, he gave an inaugural recital in 1998 with Alicia de Larrocha herself at the Richard Nixon Library in

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. Delgado is also the founder of the Castle Green Historic & Cultural Society in his residual town of

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Recordings

Delgado has recorded the full works of Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera. He has also performed the works of other Argentine composers such as Carlos Guastavino, Alberto Williams, Juan José Castro, Alicia Terzian, Antonio Tauriello and Carlos López Buchardo. Delgado has also recorded the romantic works of

Schumann Robert Schumann (; ; 8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the early Romantic music, Romantic era. He composed in all the main musical genres of the time, writing for solo piano, voice and piano, chamber ...

Liszt Franz Liszt (22 October 1811 – 31 July 1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic period. With a diverse body of work spanning more than six decades, he is considered to be one of the most pro ...

, Chopin and

Mendelssohn Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include symphonie ...

as well as

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Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition and proficiency from an early age ...

and

Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He is one of the most revered figures in the history of Western music; his works rank among the most performed of the classical music repertoire ...

. Delgado is a regular performer at the

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and the Martha Argerich Festival in

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and

. He has collaborated with

Martha Argerich Martha Argerich (; ; born 5 June 1941) is an Argentine classical concert pianist. Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argerich gave her debut concert at the age of eight before receiving further piano training in Europe. At an early age, she won sev ...

in several duets, the most recent being '' Tres Romances'' by Carlos Guastavino. In April 2009 he performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, in an all-Russian Program which featured the recitals of

Prokofiev Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev; alternative transliterations of his name include ''Sergey'' or ''Serge'', and ''Prokofief'', ''Prokofieff'', or ''Prokofyev''. , group=n ( – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor who l ...

, Arensky, and

Stravinsky Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ( – 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French citizenship (from 1934) and American citizenship (from 1945). He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of ...

. Delgado has also recorded with tenor José Cura. Delgado is an internationally acclaimed pianist. Norwegian critics have described Delgado as “a pianist of a thousand nuances, a fantastic experience.” In Russia, the '' Sovetskaya Kultura'' wrote about Delgado, “Delgado’s Bach had brilliance, a profound meditation and a musical tone rarely heard.”

References

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