Women in the history of music

12/03/2024 20:00 - 21:00

On the occasion of the Insular Meeting of Music and Equality 2024, the pianist and researcher Isabel Pérez Dobarro will give a conference on women and music.

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Dr. Isabel Dobarro is considered one of the Spanish pianists with the most international projection. Recently named “Woman to Watch in Culture of the year 2021”, finalist in the Future Classic Woman Award in London and invited as visiting Professor at the London Performing Academy of Music in London (UK), Isabel has developed her career as a soloist in the United States, Spain, Russia, Belgium, Argentina, Italy and Portugal. He has performed at the Stern Auditorium in Carnegie Hall, the DiMenna Center, Steinway Hall, Tenri Cultural Institute, Septodont Audiorium, Carson Auditorium, Provincetown Playhouse, Frederick Loewe Theater, Blackbox Theater, Borden Auditorium and Greenfield Hall among others in the US, the Rachmaninoff Hall from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Casina Pio IV in Vatican City and the Sala Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli in Bolzano in Italy, the Balassi Center in Brussels, the Juan March Foundation, among others. Together with mezzo-soprano Anna Tonna, Isabel Dobarro has been awarded the New York Women Composers Seed Grant for the Women in Music Project, an initiative that promotes music composed by women around the world. The New York Philharmonic has collaborated on this project through its Very Yong Composers Program. The recent CD by Anna Tonna and Isabel Dobarro recovering unpublished works by Pauline Viardot together with Patricia Kleinman and Corina Feldkamp has been named Critic's Choice by the New York Metropolitan Opera Guild Opera News magazine, has received the Golden Melómano award and is competing for the Latin Grammy Awards. Likewise, the tribute to Pauline Viardot has included conferences at Harvard University and New York University and concerts at the Institut Français or the Real Alcázar of Seville, among other highly prestigious places. She has a doctorate from New York University. At this university she began teaching classes at the age of 19 as an Adjunct Instructor. Previous studies include Professional Studies Degree at the Manhattan School of Music, Master's Degree at New York University, Higher Degree in Piano at the Royal Conservatory of Music of Madrid.

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