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Biography
Critically acclaimed as a musician of virtuosity and versatility, pianist José Cáceres has appeared throughout the United States, Central and South America, and the Caribbean. Some of the venues in which he has performed in recital include the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall; the Concert Hall, Terrace Theater and Millennium Stages at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; the Sala Manuel M. Ponce at Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City; and the Concert Hall at the Fine Arts Center in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He has been heard with major orchestras including the National Symphony Orchestra, the American Youth Philharmonic, the Fairfax Symphony, and the Puerto Rico Symphony. With a repertoire that encompasses a wide array of styles-from Bach to the varied idioms of today's leading contemporary composers-Mr. Cáceres has brought to the forefront some of the most ambitious and challenging music of lesser-known contemporary Latin American composers. This interest was recognized with a grant from the Johns Hopkins University Latin American Studies Program-through the Ford Foundation-to further expand his knowledge of the repertoire.
His passion to perform as collaborator in chamber and art song recitals has led him to appear as guest artist with the Washington Chamber Society as well as at the Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, the San Antonio Music Festival, the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and at the Marian Anderson International Vocal Arts Competition and Festival. Mr. Cáceres is also a member of Tango 3: The Washington Tango Trio.
Mr. Cáceres received his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the University of Maryland, where he was a scholarship student of Thomas Schumacher. While studying at Maryland, he won the Elizabeth Davis, Homer Ulrich, and Theodore Presser Foundation Awards. A major prizewinner in numerous national and international competitions, his accolades include the Young Soloists' Competition of the National Symphony Orchestra, the Teresa Carreño International Piano Competition of Venezuela and, more recently, the John F. Kennedy Center's Fellowships of the Americas National Program Award. He has also studied in New York with Ivette Hernández.
His lecture/seminar on Self-Management in a Competitive Market was one of the key events at the Fifth World Piano Pedagogy Conference, held in October in Las Vegas, Nevada. In conjunction with the exhibition Piano 300: Celebrating Three Hundred Years of People and Pianos-organized by the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution-Mr. Cáceres was one of four pianists featured this fall in a series of recitals and master classes exploring the Spanish and Latin American repertoire. He is also one of the Piano 300 exhibit performance tour guides.
In addition to his private studio, Mr. Cáceres frequently adjudicates in competitions and gives master classes throughout the United States and abroad.
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