Jorge Federico Osorio

Jorge Federico Osorio has been internationally acclaimed for his superb musicianship, powerful technique, vibrant imagination, and deep passion, and hailed as “one of the more elegant and accomplished pianists on the planet” (Los Angeles Times). He has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras, including the Symphony Orchestras of Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Seattle, and the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México; the Israel, Warsaw, and Royal Philharmonics; the Moscow State Orchestra, Orchestre Nationale de France, Philharmonia Orchestra, and Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw Orchestra. Osorio’s concert tours have taken him to Europe; Asia; and North, Central, and South America. He has collaborated with such distinguished conductors as Bernard Haitink, Mariss Jansons, Lorin Maazel, Klaus Tennstedt, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, James Conlon, Luis Herrera, Manfred Honeck, Eduardo Mata, Juanjo Mena, Michel Plasson, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Maximiano Valdés, and Jaap van Zweden, among many others. American festival appearances have included the Hollywood Bowl, Ravinia, Newport, and Grant Park Festivals. One of the highlights of Osorio’s long and distinguished career was the performance of all five Beethoven Concertos over two consecutive nights with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the 2010 Ravinia Festival. During the past several years, Osorio has performed in Berlin, Brussels, Düsseldorf and Stuttgart; at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam; and at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig. Recent American recitals have taken him to Boston, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Chicago, where he performed on the prestigious Bank of America Great Performers Series at Symphony Center. Osorio has also given two highly acclaimed New York City recitals at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall.

A prolific recording artist, Osorio has documented a wide variety of repertoire, including a solo Brahms CD that Gramophone proclaimed “one of the most distinguished discs of Brahms’ piano music in recent years.” Recordings with orchestra include Beethoven’s five Piano Concertos and Choral Fantasy; both Brahms concertos; and concertos by Chávez, Mozart, Ponce, Rachmaninov, Rodrigo, Schumann, and Tchaikovsky. Osorio’s acclaimed solo recordings on Cedille Records include Salón Mexicano, comprising music of Mexican composers Manuel M. Ponce, Filipe Villanueva, Ricardo Castro, and José Rolón; an entire disc devoted to music of Ponce; a 2-CD set of Debussy and Liszt; and Piano Español, a collection of works by Albéniz, Falla, Granados, and Soler that received glowing reviews internationally and marked Osorio as one of the world’s great interpreters of Spanish piano music. Osorio’s recorded work may be found on the Artek, ASV, CBS, Cedille, EMI, IMP, and Naxos labels.

Osorio has won several international prizes and received numerous awards, including the prestigious Medalla Bellas Artes, the highest honor granted by Mexico’s National Institute of Fine Arts; the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Gina Bachauer Award; and First Prize in the Rhode Island International Master Piano Competition. An avid chamber music performer, he has served as artistic director of the Brahms Chamber Music Festival in Mexico; performed in a piano trio with violinist Mayumi Fujikawa and cellist Richard Markson; and collaborated with Yo-Yo Ma, Ani Kavafian, Elmar Oliveira, and Henryk Szeryng. A dedicated teacher, Osorio serves on the faculty at Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts. For his own musical education, Osorio began his studies at the age of five with his mother, Luz María Puente, and later attended the conservatories of Mexico, Paris, and Moscow, where he worked with Bernard Flavigny, Monique Haas, and Jacob Milstein. Osorio’s other mentors include Nadia Reisenberg and Wilhelm Kempff. Highly revered in his native Mexico, where he performs often, Osorio resides in Highland Park, Illinois, and is a Steinway Artist.

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(En Español)

Jorge Federico Osorio es uno de los más eminentes pianistas de nuestros tiempos y ha sido internacionalmente aclamado por su maestría y dominio absoluto del instrumento. Además de presentarse con las principales orquestas de su país, ha tocado con gran número de las mejores orquestas del mundo, como la Orquesta del Concertgebouw de Ámsterdam, las Filarmónicas de Israel, Real de Londres, Varsovia, Filarmonía, Filarmónica Real de Londres, de la RTV Española, la Nacional de Francia, Estatal de Moscú, las Sinfónicas de Chicago, Detroit, Seattle, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati y Dallas, bajo la batuta de directores como Haitink, Tennstedt, Maazel, Frühbeck de Burgos, Herrera de la Fuente, Mester, Mata, Prieto, Bátiz, Diemecke, López-Cobos, Chen, Plasson, Caballé-Domenech, Honeck, Atzmon, entre otros. Se ha presentado en los festivales de Ravinia, Grant Park, Hollywood Bowl, Newport y en el Festival Internacional de Piano en Gulangyu, China. Recientemente se destacan su gira por Europa con la Sinfónica Nacional de México dirigida por Carlos Miguel Prieto, el ciclo Beethoven en el Festival de Ravinia bajo la batuta de James Conlon, así como con la OSN en México. Ha ofrecido recitales en Berlín, Bruselas, Dusseldorf y Stuttgart, y también en el Concertgebouw de Ámsterdam y la Gewandhaus de Leipzig. De su recital en el Lincoln Center el crítico del New York Times, Allan Kozinn, escribió: “la frescura de sus lecturas hace imposible resistir ninguna de sus actuaciones.” Durante 2013 se presentará en el prestigioso ciclo pianístico del Symphony Center de Chicago, donde en el mes de diciembre también tocará el Concierto de Carlos Chávez con la Sinfónica de Chicago. Asimismo, debutará con la Filarmónica de Bogotá y volverá a tocar con la Sinfónica Nacional de Perú y la Orquesta de Valencia (España). La discografía de Osorio en EMI, CBS, Artek, IMP, Naxos y ASV, ha recibido elogiosas críticas en Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine y American Record Review. En 2012 el sello Cedille publicó su disco compacto Salón Mexicano, con obras de autores mexicanos del siglo XIX, que ha recibido innumerables elogios por parte del público y de la crítica. Ha colaborado con los Cuartetos de Moscú, Tel Aviv, Ruso-Americano, Latinoamericano, el Pacifica Quartet, los violinistas Henryk Szeryng, Mayumi Fujikawa y Ani Kavafian y el cellista Richard Markson. Nacido en la Ciudad de México, estudió en los conservatorios de México, París y Moscú, siendo sus maestros Luz María Puente, Bernard Flavigny, Jacob Milstein y más tarde, en Nueva York, Nadia Reisenberg. También participó en los cursos impartidos por Wilhelm Kempff en Positano, Italia. En octubre de 2012 recibió la Medalla Bellas Artes al mérito artístico por parte de las autoridades del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes en México.

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