Andres Carciente is a Venezuelan
pianist. He was born and graduated in
Caracas
Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the ...
as a Performer Professor of Piano. In Venezuela he studied with the American/Venezuelan pianist Harriet Serr and chamber music with Judit Jaimes.
His debut as a soloist was playing
Mendelssohn
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic music, Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositi ...
's Piano Concerto Nr. 1 with the
Simon Bolivar
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Orchestra. Soon after that he won First Prize at the Young Soloist Competition organized by the Symphonic Orchestra of
Venezuela.
Andres studied at the Liszt Music Academy with
Ferenc Rados (piano and chamber music) and parallelly at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with
Karl-Heinz Kämmerling
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, and has given concerts in the following cities:
London,
Madrid,
Rome,
Vienna,
Prague,
Budapest,
Helsinki,
Bergen,
Stavanger
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,
Vilnius,
Athens,
Luzern
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,
Eisenach,
Montpellier
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,
Melilla
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,
Seoul,
Ceuta.,
Cancun and
Bristol.
He played at the 250th Anniversary of
Johann Sebastian Bach a concert at the Wartburg in
Eisenach, which was broadcast by Radio Berlin Deutschland. He also participated in the Chamber Music Workshop of
Gyorgy Kurtag at the Konzerthaus in Vienna.
Andres inaugurated the Steinway piano donated by
Georg Solti
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in a concert at the Liszt Museum in Budapest.
The music of
Johann Sebastian Bach occupies a special place in his repertoire. Andres Carciente has been the only Venezuelan pianist to have played by heart in concerts the cycle of
Bach's 6 Partitas and the Well Tempered Clavier ( Book I,Complete).
Venezuelan
composer
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Etymology and Defi ...
Gonzalo Castellanos Yumar
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dedicated his Prelude for Piano "Crepitante" to Andres Carciente.
His hobby is
genealogy with more than 1500 names and stories in his family tree.
He also loves literature! Among his favorite writers, he has a special predilection for the books written by
Arturo Uslar Pietri
External links
Andres Carciente's YouTube Channel*
ach Cantatas Website
References
Venezuelan pianists
Venezuelan classical pianists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Musicians from Caracas
Franz Liszt Academy of Music alumni
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