Alberto Urroz will close on February 3 the cycle called “Nineteenth-century Spanish piano music: a proposed canon”. The program features piano works by Martín Sánchez Allú, Juan Bautista Pujol, Chopin and Liszt. It is a tribute to works inspired by stage music, especially operas by Donizetti, Bellini, Gounod, Verdi and zarzuela by Gaztambide. The concert … [Read more…]
“Arkadia – meetings with the Maestro” is an international festival of excellence to promote training in classical music performance by the hand of Maestro Alberto Urroz. Arkadia was born from the need to reorient the current musical education where rush and interests outside of music are breaking the chain of knowledge and musical values transmitted … [Read more…]
Alberto Urroz is again in 2020 one of the visiting professors at the prestigious summer courses in Brescia where some of the most famous teachers in the world are invited weekly through the summer. Brescia’s master classes last from June to September. Alberto Urroz´masterclasees will take place from July 6 to 11. For more information … [Read more…]
Within the XV program of the prestigious Portuguese festival “Terras sem sombra”, Alberto Urroz accompanies the Filipina soprano Manila Adap in an exceptional journey from the most recognized Filipino songs (Kundiman) to classics of the western repertoire for soprano. “Traveling Heart: Love and Lullaby Songs in the East and in the West” features songs by … [Read more…]
The First Shigeru Kawai City of Madrid Piano Competition was held from the 4th to the 7th of April with great success. This contest organized by Kawai Spain in collaboration with EPTA Spain has appointed Ana Guijarro, Honorary President of EPTA Spain, and Alberto Urroz, current EPTA President, as artistic directors. The Competition Final was … [Read more…]
“Scarlatti Sonatas”, the new commercial recording by Alberto Urroz on Ibs Classical has been released and can be purchased on the label’s page as well as digitally on iTunes, amazon, etc., and physically at distribution points such as El Corte Inglés. This selection of 14 sonatas gathers some of the most well-known along with others scarcely … [Read more…]
Alberto Urroz has been awarded the Extraordinary Doctorate Award by the University Alfonso X el Sabio for the best doctoral thesis in Arts and Humanities of the 2016-2017 academic year, with special mention to his thesis director, Dra. Alicia Villar Lecumberri. The thesis “Optimization of the teaching-learning process of piano technique: models to develop efficiency … [Read more…]
The second commercial recording for IBS Classical will be entirely dedicated to the sonatas of D. Scarlatti. This new recording took place from September 11 to 14, 2017 at the Manuel de Falla Auditorium in Granada and is expected to be available by fall 2018. Alberto Urroz has performed successfully tributes to Scarlatti Sonatas in … [Read more…]
Alberto Urroz was invited to the extraordinary “IV Encontro” Epta Portugal to offer a lecture on the pedagogy of the Czerny Studies and participate in the gala concert along with great pianists such as Artur Pizarro, Luís Pipa, Heribert Koch or Luísa Tender. Just five days before, he offered a recital conference on Spanish music … [Read more…]
A spectacular illumination of the impressive Escadaria das Pereiras spot in the beautiful town of Ponte de Lima in Portugal was the outdoor setting of a Scarlatti sonatas recital, a selection of Goyescas by Granados and Liszt’s Sonata in B minor. The Festival Percursos Festival of Ponte de Lima featured great artists such as António … [Read more…]
