ELIZABETH GUERRERO

Venezuelan pianist Elizabeth Guerrero, first recipient of the Maro Ajemian Award of the Juilliard School of Music, has led an active life as a solo pianist and chamber musician.  She has belonged to chamber groups such as “Ensemble Brahms de Caracas”, “Trío Académico Emil Friedman”, “Piano a Dos de Venezuela” and “El Piano Criollo”, this last dedicated to Venezuelan traditional music.

Ms Guerrero studied under Czech pedagogue Gerty Haas in Caracas, and under American pianists William Masselos and Herbert Stessin while a postgraduate student at the Juilliard School of Music.

She has been featured as a soloist with numerous symphony orchestras in Venezuela, has recorded several CDs and has devoted her time to the investigation of various themes, such as the work of the sons of J.S.Bach, the African root of Latin American music and Venezuelan musical traditions.

PIANO    RECITAL

Part I

In the Chopin style

Music by Venezuelan Romantic composers

Polonaise Op.39……………………………………….Teresa Carreño

Two Nocturnes…………………………………………. Victoria Almenar

Melancolía

Amoroso

Waltz (“Lejanías”)………………………………………Luis Arreaza

Part II

Rhythms of America

Maple Leaf Rag………………………………………….Scott Joplin

Two Curazolean Dances……………………………Wim Stacius Müller

Chuchubi (Rumba)

Bo tei?  (Tumba)

Two Cuban Dances…………………………………..Ernesto Lecuona

Danza Lucumí

La Comparsa

Sarambeque  Brazilian Tango………………………………………..Ernesto Nazareth

¡Prepárense! Argentinian Tango……………………………………Astor Piazzoll

Part III

Venezuelan Traditional Music

Pajarillo………………………………………………..  Luisa Elena Paesano

La Bartolada (merengue)…………………….   Composer unknown

Collected by V.E. Sojo

Joropo…………………………………………………..Diana Franklin

Venezuelan Waltz ……………………………….. .Federico Vollmer

Marisela………………………………………………..Sebastián Díaz-Peña