Leticia Gómez-Tagle (born in

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) is a Mexican pianist and piano teacher. She has been teaching in

Linz Linz (Pronunciation: , ; ) is the capital of Upper Austria and List of cities and towns in Austria, third-largest city in Austria. Located on the river Danube, the city is in the far north of Austria, south of the border with the Czech Repub ...

, Austria, since 1999.

Biography

Leticia Gómez-Tagle received her first academic training in Mexico, where her professors were mainly Manuel Delaflor for piano and Angel Esteva Loyola for music theory. She has won several prizes at youth piano competitions in Mexico, including the University of Puebla, and was awarded 1st prize at the Fomento Musical Sala Chopin, through which she received a scholarship from the Austrian governmental ministry and was thus able to take up studies in piano concert performance and instrumental pedagogy with Prof. Michael Krist at the

Vienna Academy of Music The University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (, abbreviated MDW) is an Austrian university established in 1817 located in Vienna. With a student body of over three thousand, it is the largest institution of its kind in Austria, and one of t ...

. She also received further musical impulses in Vienna from Prof. Carlos Rivera and in master classes with

Paul Badura-Skoda Paul Badura-Skoda (6 October 1927 – 25 September 2019) was an Austrian pianist. Career A student of Edwin Fischer, Badura-Skoda first rose to prominence by winning first prize in the Austrian Music Competition in 1947. In 1949, he performed w ...

Jörg Demus Jörg Wolfgang Demus (2 December 1928 – 16 April 2019) was an Austrian classical pianist who appeared internationally and made many recordings. He was also a composer and a lecturer at music academies. In composition and playing, he focused on ...

György Sándor György Sándor (; 21 September 1912 – 9 December 2005) was a Hungarian pianist and writer. Early years Sándor was born in Budapest. He studied at the Liszt Academy in Budapest under Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály, and debuted as ...

and Orlando Otey. Since her participation at the

International Chopin Piano Competition The International Chopin Piano Competition (), often called the Chopin Competition, is a piano competition in Warsaw, Poland, held first in 1927 and every five years since 1955. The competition is one of the founding members of the World Federa ...

in Warsaw in 1990, she has performed regularly at various music festivals in Mexico and Europe. She has been invited by the Mexican Foreign Ministry to perform in the USA, Canada and Lebanon. As a soloist, she has performed with numerous orchestras at home and abroad, including the Orquesta Filarmónica de México, Orquesta Sinfónica del IPN (Mexico), Orquesta Filarmónica de Querétaro, Symphonic Orchestra of the Music School Linz, and the Chamber Orchestra with members of the

Bruckner Orchestra Linz The Bruckner Orchester Linz is an Austrian orchestra based in Linz. Named for Anton Bruckner, the orchestra is the concert orchestra for the state of Upper Austria, and also the opera orchestra at the Landestheater Linz (Upper Austrian State Theatr ...

under the direction of conductors such as Ingo Ingensand, Jesús Medina,

Benjamín Juárez Echenique Benjamin Juarez Echenique is a music conductor and scholar with over four decades of experience in the arts, and was born in Mexico City on July 17, 1951. He studied in Mexico at the National School of Music, National University of Mexico, the Cali ...

and Guadalupe Flores. She has given master classes in Spain (Mallorca, Córdoba and Granada), Mexico (CENART University) and Lebanon at the Sin el-Fil Conservatory. Since 1999 she has been teaching at the Music School of the City of Linz.

Recordings

* 2010: ''"Dos Continentes"'',

scherzi A scherzo (, , ; plural scherzos or scherzi), in western classical music, is a short composition – sometimes a movement from a larger work such as a symphony or a sonata. The precise definition has varied over the years, but scherzo often ref ...

by Chopin and Latin American works by Piazzola, Ginastera, Moleiro, and Hugo Gómez Tagle among others (Urtext) * 2016: ''"Dance Passion''", works by Liszt, Chopin, Brahms, de Falla, Albéniz, Ginastera, and Márquez among others ( ARS Produktion) * 2017: ''"Poems & Pictures"'', ''

Gaspard de la Nuit ''Gaspard de la nuit'' (subtitled ''Trois poèmes pour piano d'après Aloysius Bertrand''), M. 55 is a suite of piano pieces by Maurice Ravel, written in 1908. It has three movements, each based on a poem or ''fantaisie'' from the collection '' ...

'' by Ravel, ''

Pictures at an Exhibition ''Pictures at an Exhibition'' is a piano suite in ten movements, plus a recurring and varied Promenade theme, written in 1874 by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky. It is a musical depiction of a tour of an exhibition of works by architect and ...

'' by Mussorgsky, two transcriptions by Schubert / Liszt (ARS Produktion) * 2019: ''"Sí! Sonatas"'', '' Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58'' by Chopin, ''Piano Sonata in B minor'' by Liszt and ''Piano Sonata in B minor, K. 87'' by Domenico Scarlatti (ARS Produktion)

Publications

Arturo Márquez Arturo Márquez Navarro (born 20 December 1950) is a Mexican composer of orchestral music who uses musical forms and styles of his native Mexico and incorporates them into his compositions. His best known work is '' Danzón No. 2''. Life Márque ...

: ''Danzón No. 2'', transcription for solo piano (Hamburg: Peermusic Classical, 2016).

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