Juan Pablo Andrade, piano

PRESENTS

JUAN PABLO ANDRADE, PIANO SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28TH, 7 PM UTRGV PAC, EDINBURG SATURDAY NOVEMBER 4TH, 7PM TSC PAC, BROWNSVILLE

PROGRAM Preludio

Mario Ruiz Armengol (Mexico, 1914-2002)

Caña Dulce (Arr. Manuel Matarrita)

José Daniel Zúñiga (Costa Rica, 1889-1981)

Troubled Water

Margaret Bonds (USA, 1913-1972)

Summerland (From Three Visions) Mi Inspiración (Cueca)

William Grant Still (USA, 1895-1978)

Juan Antonio Rojas Lazcano (Bolivia, 1963-)

Capriccio Andino

Humberto Viscarra-Monje (Bolivia, 1898-1971) INTERMEDIO

Drei Fantasiestücke, Opus 111

Robert Schumann (Germany, 1810-1856)

1. Sehr rasch, leideschaftlighem Vortrag 2. Ziemlich langsam – Etwas bewegter - Erstes Tempo 3. Kräftig und sehr markiert Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Opus 58 I. Allegro maestoso II. Scherzo. Molto vivace III. Largo IV. Finale. Presto, non-tanto

Frederic Chopin (Poland, 1810-1849)

ABOUT THE PERFORMER Costa Rican pianist Juan Pablo Andrade maintains a very active career as a recitalist, concerto soloist, collaborative artist, clinician and adjudicator.

He is the recipient of numerous awards, most notably the Costa Rican National Prize of Music, the highest recognition given to a musician by the Costa Rican Ministry of Culture. Other awards include the First Prize at the Artlivre International Piano Competition in Sao Paulo, Brazil; and the First Prize in the Carlos Enrique Vargas National Piano Competition in CR. As a student he received First Prize in the Concert of Soloists Competition at Arizona State University, First Prize at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro Concerto Competition, and Second Prize in the University of Costa Rica Concerto Competition.

He has performed as a soloist with the South Bend Symphony (IN), the Greensboro Symphony (NC), the Powder River Symphony (WY) the University of Costa Rica Symphony, the Cartago Symphony (CR), the Central American Symphony, the Bolivian National Symphony, the Costa Rican Youth Symphony, and on many occasions with the Costa Rican National Symphony. Recent concerto performances include Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 “Emperor”, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 26, and Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3.

Conductors he has collaborated with include Irwin Hoffmann, Chosei Komatsu, Kaisa Roose, Norman Gamboa, Ricardo del Carmen, Alejandro Gutierrez, Gabriela Mora, Ivan Arguedas, Mathew Troy and Timothy Russel. As a recitalist he has appeared throughout the United States, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico, Bolivia, Colombia, Brazil, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Serbia, Norway, Greece and Spain. Recent performances include solo recitals at the Yehudi Menuhin Forum in Bern, Switzerland, and at the World Piano

ABOUT THE PERFORMER (cont.)

Conference in Novy Sad, Serbia. Many of his performances have been recorded and broadcasted by the Phoenix Classical Radio Station KBAK, Costa Rican University Radio and Costa Rican National Television. He is also a very active chamber musician and a member of the Aegina Trio with Dr. Betul Soykan and Dr. Katherine Decker. His recent duo CD titled War to Peace, (Centaur Records 3666) and recorded together with violinist Betul Soykan, features works by Ferguson, Prokofiev and Messiaen and received very favorable reviews in Fanfare magazine. Other musicians he has collaborated with include Margaret Lattimore, Kenneth Grant, Bonita Boyd and Frederic St. Pierre.

Dr. Andrade is a Professor of Piano at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and has previously served as Visiting Assistant Professor of Piano at Idaho State University and Lecturer of Piano at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He obtained his Bachelors and Licenciatura in Music degrees from the University of Costa Rica, the Master of Music from Arizona State University, an Artist Diploma from Indiana University-South Bend, and a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His mentors include Gerardo Duarte, Robert Hamilton, Alexander Toradze and John Salmon. Dr. Andrade is also a faculty member at the SemperMusic International Summer Festival in the Italian Alps, and a frequent guest at the Global Summer Institute of Music in Richmond, VA, and Curso de Perfeccionamiento de Piano EAFIT, in Medellin, Colombia. He is the founder and artistic director of the newly created La Frontera International Piano Conference, in Brownsville, Texas.

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