Poster Gabriela Montero
Pianist, composer and improviser Gabriela Montero.
Shelley Mosman
Performance Today®

Pianist Gabriela Montero

Gabriela Montero has been playing the Piano Concerto by Edvard Grieg since she was 11 (c. 1981). Her original copy of the music, the one she has used for over 30 years, is decorated with the Hello Kitty stickers of an 11 year-old girl. The Venezuelan pianist is now 46, and she just recently bought a new copy of the music. On Monday's Performance Today, the ever-youthful Gabriela Montero performs Grieg's Piano Concerto with the Houston Symphony, Andres Orozco-Estrada conducting.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Bela Bartok: For Children, Hungarian Folk Tunes, Volume 1 (Selections)
Paul Galbraith, 8-string guitar
In Every Lake the Moon Shines Full
Delos 3236

Bela Bartok: Romanian Dances Sz. 68, BB 76
Windham Festival Chamber Orchestra; Robert Manno, conductor
Windham Chamber Music Festival, Windham Civic Centre Concert Hall, Windham, NY

Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132: Movements 3-5
Pacifica Quartet
Aspen Music Festival and School, Harris Hall, Aspen, CO

Franz Schubert: Notturno in E-flat major for Piano, Violin and Cello D 897
Gilles Vonsattel, piano; Erin Keefe, violin; Peter Wiley, cello
Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church, Bridgehampton, NY

Hour 2

Ernesto Lecuona: La Comparsa (Carnival Procession) & Por que te vas? (Why did you go?)
Gabriela Montero, piano
41144
Henry Wood Hall, London, England
Solatino EMI

Luigi Cherubini: Overture to Ali Baba, or The Forty Thieves
Oregon Symphony; Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Oregon Symphony, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland, OR

Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 33 No. 2, 'The Joke'
St. Lawrence String Quartet
Bank of America and The ETV Endowment of South Carolina, Dock Street Theater, Charleston, SC

Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto, Op. 16: Movements 2-3
Gabriela Montero, piano; Houston Symphony; Andres Orozco-Estrada, conductor
Jones Hall, Houston, TX

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