Gabriela Montero’s visionary interpretations and unique compositional gifts have garnered her critical acclaim and a devoted following on the world stage. Anthony Tommasini remarked in The New York Times that “Montero’s playing had everything: crackling rhythmic brio, subtle shadings, steely power…soulful lyricism…unsentimental expressivity.” Montero’s recent and forthcoming highlights feature performances of her own “Latin Concerto” with the San Francisco Symphony (Marin Alsop), New World Symphony (Stéphane Denève), Vienna and Polish National radio symphonies (Marin Alsop), BBC Scottish and Antwerp symphonies (Elim Chan), Swedish Radio Symphony (Marta Gardolińska), and National Arts Centre Orchestra (Alexander Shelley), the latter with which she concludes a four-year Creative Partnership at the end of 2025. In May 2024, Montero also made her long-awaited return to Los Angeles, where she worked with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and Jaime Martín, and also performed an adapted version of “Westward”, a special programme themed around immigration and Charlie Chaplin’s The Immigrant at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Hollywood. She also gave the world premiere performance of her latest commissioned composition, a piano quintet entitled Canaima, with the Calidore String Quartet at the celebrated Gilmore Piano Festival. Other highlights include an extensive European tour with the City of Birmingham Symphony and Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, a UK tour with the Prague Symphony, and debut appearances with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, New Zealand Symphony, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, and the Minnesota Orchestra, where “Montero’s gripping performance…made a case that she might become the classical scene’s next great composer/pianist” (Star Tribune). Other highlights include artist residencies with the Sao Paolo Symphony, Prague Radio Symphony, Basel Symphony, and at the Rheingau Festival; debuts at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall, New York’s 92nd Street Y, Paris’s Philharmonie and La Seine Musicale, and the London Piano Festival at King’s Place; and the launch of “Gabriela Montero at Prager”, an ongoing artist residency and international concert series established at the Prager Family Center for the Arts in the iconic coastal town of Easton, Maryland.
As of April 2025
