Lima
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Peru
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pianist
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Life
She began to study the piano at age two. She gave her first public performance at age three, and shortly after that was admitted to the National Conservatory of Music in Lima. She studied there with Luisa Negri and Teresa Quesada. After winning a concerto competition sponsored by the National Symphony Orchestra of Peru, she made her orchestral debut with that orchestra at age twelve.
She was awarded a full scholarship to the
Eastman School of Music
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It offers Bachelor of Music ...
, where she studied with
Frank Glazer
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Career details
Glazer was born in Chester, Wisconsin on February 19, 1915, the sixth child of Benjamin and Clara Glazer, Jewish emig ...
, and obtained both her bachelor's and master's degrees in piano performance in three years.
The Organization of American States gave her a special grant that enabled her to study in the United States with the pianists Ellen Mack,
Menahem Pressler
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Pressler is Jewish. Following Kristallnacht, he and his immediate family fled Nazi Germany in 1939,
Louis Kentner
Louis Philip Kentner (19 July 190523 September 1987) was a Hungarian, later British, pianist who excelled in the works of Chopin and Liszt, as well as the Hungarian repertoire.
Life and career
He was born Lajos Kentner in Karwin in Austrian S ...
doctoral degree
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in chamber music from the Catholic University of America .
In 2004, she was given the title of cultural ambassador by the
Government of Peru
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. She is a collaborative pianist at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, has a private music studio in Northern Virginia, and is a faculty member and regular performing artist at the
Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music Summer Festival
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Myriam Avalos' performances and master classes throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia have earned her critical acclaim as a soloist, teacher and chamber musician. Her appearances and broadcasts include the Phillips Collection, the Kennedy Center, Dumbarton Concert Series, Purcell Room in London, Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm, Voice of the OAS, San Antonio Festival, WGMS Radio, Teatro Municipal de Lima and two US State Department-sponsored tours of China and Brazil. She has recorded for the MSR Classics label.
She lives in