Chilean pianists premiere works by Bianchi, Vera-Rivera and Salinas in Leipzig

Article Date(s): 11/10/2023

The pianists Matilde Méndez Zenteno and Natalia Álvarez Malebrán will perform this November 12, at 4:00 p.m., a concert dedicated to Latin American music at the Frauenkultur, in Leipzig (Germany).

The Latein-amerikanisches Klavierkonzert program will present works from Chile, Cuba and Brazil.

 

 

The concert will be divided into three parts. The first will feature the presentation of Matilde Méndez, who will perform works by Federico Guzmán, Luis Aguirre Pinto, Vicente Bianchi, an arrangement by the Ukrainian pianist Svetlana Kotova of the Central American work "El muñeco".

In the second part, pianist Natalia Álvarez will perform works by Vicente Bianchi, Violeta Parra ("Gracias a la vida" arranged by V. Bianchi), Manuel Saumell (Cuba) and Claudio Santoro (Brazil).

The third part of the concert will be a 4-hand duet, in which Álvarez and Méndez will perform the "Suite Violeta", by Santiago Vera-Rivera and "Mercado de Testaccio", by Horacio Salinas (arranged by the pianist Svetlana Kotova).


 

Matilde Méndez Zenteno was born in Santiago, in 1997. She completed her studies at the University of Chile. She was a piano student of Svetlana Kotova. Today she resides in Leipzig, where she is perfecting her research studies on historical keyboards.

Natalia Álvarez Malebrán was born in Coquimbo, in 1990. She studied piano at the University of La Serena, being a student of Horacio Tardito and Ariadna Colli. She performed concerts as a soloist and as an accompanying pianist, both for the Choir of the University of La Serena and for Cantares del Elqui. In 2019, she moved to Leipzig to perfect her musical studies and, since 2021, she has been a member of the Leipzig Women's Choir.