Artur Pizarro was born on Lisbon, 1968 and is an internationally-acclaimed Portuguese concert pianist.
15 Facts About Artur Pizarro
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Artur Pizarro has an extensive discography and record deals with Linn Records, Naxos Records, Hyperion, and Collins Classics, among others.
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Artur Pizarro began his piano studies in Lisbon with Campos Coelho, professor of piano at the Lisbon Conservatory of Music, at age three.
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In 1977, after Sequeira Costa accepted a position as Distinguished Professor of Piano at the University of Kansas, Artur Pizarro followed him to Lawrence, Kansas, in the United States.
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Artur Pizarro continued working with Sequeira Costa until 1990, except for a brief interruption during which Artur worked with other teachers, including Aldo Ciccolini, Gery Moutier and Bruno Rigutto at the Conservatoire de Paris.
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Artur Pizarro attended the American School of Lisbon in his youth.
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Artur Pizarro gave his first public performance at the age of three, at the Lisbon Conservatory of Music.
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Artur Pizarro made his television debut on Portuguese television at the age of four.
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Artur Pizarro refrained from public performance for the next nine years, while he concentrated on his music studies.
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The young Artur Pizarro began performing publicly again at the age of 13 with a recital debut at the Sao Luiz Theatre in Lisbon and made his concerto debut with the Gulbenkian Orchestra later in the same year.
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Artur Pizarro won first prize in the 1987 Vianna da Motta Competition, first prize in the 1988 Greater Palm Beach Symphony Competition, and first prize in the 1990 Leeds International Pianoforte Competition.
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Artur Pizarro has worked with conductors Charles Dutoit, Sir Simon Rattle, Jean Fournier, Philippe Entremont, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Sir Andrew Davis, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Yuri Temirkanov, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Ilan Volkov, Tugan Sokhiev, Yakov Kreizberg, Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Libor Pesek, Vladimir Jurowski, and Sir Charles Mackerras.
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Mr Artur Pizarro is very active in chamber music performance and appears regularly at chamber music festivals throughout the world, such as the Spannungen chamber music festival in Heimbach.
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Artur Pizarro performed as a piano duo with Vita Panomariovaite.
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Artur Pizarro has an extensive discography available on Linn Records, as well as on Naxos, Hyperion, Collins Classics, and other labels.