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Moores School of Music A.I Lack Series Recital: Piano Mexicano

Presented by University of Houston - Moores School of Music at University of Houston - Dudley Recital Hall

October 17, 2010

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The Moores School of Music at the University of Houston presents an A.I Lack Series Recital:  Piano Mexicano, with Mauricio Nader,* (pictured) piano. Sunday, October 17, at 3:00pm in the University of Houston - Dudley Recital Hall. Free! 

Mexican pianist Mauricio Náder was born in Mexico City on February 22, 1967, he began performing at the age of nine years old and he has mantained an active career, having performed over 600 concerts. Since his recital appearances in Spain through the Prince of Asturias Foundation (1994), he has been performing extensively in Mexico, the United States, Canada, Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Belize, Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Lebanon and Pakistan. In some of the festivals where he has performed, other artists have included pianists Alicia de Larrocha and György Sándor, to name a few, and he has been selected to perform for President Felipe Calderón, the Prince of Asturias Felipe de Borbón (2008) and for the President of France Nicolas Sarkozy (2009) during their official visits to Mexico.

He debuted as a soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra (Mexico) at the age of nineteen years old. Since then, he has been invited by all of Mexico's major orchestras, as well as by diverse orchestras of Europe, the American continent and the Middle East, working with important Mexican and foreign conductors. His interpretative warmth, the power of his artistic personality and his ability to face an immense repertory ranging from the Baroque to the contemporary music have led him to become one of today's Latinamerican musicians who most hold the attention of the organizers of festivals and orchestras of Mexico and abroad. Mr. Náder's work can be appreciated in over twenty compact discs, which exemplify his natural ability to appear as a soloist, in chamber music and as a vocal accompanist.

In 2008 he received a "Most Distinguished" mention at the Ibla Grand Prize-World Music Competition (Italy) and the First Prize at the Piano Biennial (Mexico); in 1996 he obtained the First Prize at the "Bartók-Kabalevsky" International Piano Competition (USA) and the same year he received the Commemorative Medal of the Austrian Millennium. He has also received fellowships from the National Fund for Culture and the Art under the category of "performers with an outstanding career" and his face appears, along with some of the most outstanding Mexican artists of the 20th century, on the commemorative stamp entitled "México del Siglo XX al Tercer Milenio/Arte" (Mexico in the Twentieth Century, at the turn of the Third Millennium/Art) issued by the Mexican Postal Service in 2000. Since 2004, Mr. Náder performs through the management of the Concert Artsists Group (National Fine Arts Institute of Mexico) and he is Academic Director/Piano Professor at the Mexican Center of Graduate Studies in Music, in Puebla, Mexico. At present he is a member of the Ensamble 3, a leading Mexican trio devoted to contemporary music. Mr. Náder has been a juror for the piano Competitions held at the University of Radford (USA; 1997, 1998 & 2003) for the Bucaramanga International Piano Festival and Competition (Colombia, 2001) and the "Angelica Morales" National Piano Competition (Mexico, 2006); he has also been in the jury panel for many artistic-related competitions run by the Mexican government.

The critics have refered to him: "When Mauricio Náder plays the piano, he awakens the spirit of passion, sensuality, exaltation, energy and voluptuousity."; "Mauricio showed the virtuosism, experience and ability of one who dares to face passages of devilish difficulty"; "He displays fantasy, discipline, talent and commitment."

Some of his private students have received prizes at National and International piano competitions, while others have been accepted to continue their musical studies at institutions such as The Manhattan School of Music and the University of Houston (USA); the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatorium at Milan (Italy); the Superior School of Music of Santander; the Escorial Conservatorium (Spain) and the Rotterdam Conservatorium (Holand).

Mr. Náder held musical studies at the National Music Conservatory (Mexico), the University of Houston (BM) and the Eastman School of Music (MM), where he was unanimously awarded the Performers' Certificate. His teachers were Carlos Bueno, María Teresa Rodríguez, Nancy Weems and Anton Nel.

His appearances for the 2008-2009 season include concerts and masterclasses in Mexico, as well as in Central-America, the United States, Puerto Rico, France, India and Pakistan.

Scheduled Program:
Works by Ponce, Ruiz-Armengol, Chavez, Morales, Velázquez, Ibarra, Zyman.

*Indicates Guest Artist.