For Immediate Release
October 2, 2002
CONTACT: Jette Englund
Office of University Relations
(908) 737-3410
E-mail: jenglund@kean.edu
Spanish Piano Professor Visits Kean University
UNION, N.J. – Spanish piano professor Guillermo González will be performing at Kean University on Tuesday, October 15, at 7 p.m. in the University Center Little Theatre, 1000 Morris Avenue, Union, N.J. Admission is free.
Born on the island of Tenerife, Spain, González started music studies at the Tenerife Conservatory and continued with professor José Cubiles at the Madrid Conservatory. He won prizes at the Milan, Vercelli (Viotti), Jaen and Tenerife Piano Competitions.
González has been piano professor at the Royal Music Conservatory in Madrid since 1974 and is a visiting professor of Melbourne University, Australia. He has played recitals and concerts throughout the world (Germany, Australia, USA, France, Mexico, Peru, Switzerland, Venezuela, the former USSR, etc.), cooperating with orchestras such as Strasbourg, Dresden, Liverpool, Scottish Chamber and with the most prominent Spanish orchestras.
His recording, Piano Works by Teobaldo Power, was awarded the Great National Prize for Recording in 1980. He has recorded the piano works of E. Halffter, A. Scriabin, Falla and Garcia Abril. In 1996, he interpreted a live recording of the Suite Iberia by I. Albéniz for the Radio European Union (U.E.R.). In 1998, he recorded the complete Suite Iberia and the two Suites Españolas by I. Albéniz for Naxos.
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