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Gabriela Montero (* 10 May 1970 in Caracas, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan-Spanish pianist and composer.

Life

She made her first public appearance at the age of five. She made her concerto debut at the age of eight with the Orquesta Sinfónica de la Juventud Venezolana Simón Bolívar under José Antonio Abreu and received a government scholarship to study in the US. At the age of twelve, she won the Baldwin Competition and the AMSA Young Artist International Piano Competition performing Tchaikovsky’s 1st Piano Concerto with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. She continued her studies with Lyl Tiempo, Andrez Esterhazy and Professor Hamish Milne at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She first gained international attention when she won third place at the 13th International Chopin Competition in Warsaw in 1995.

Gabriela Montero is married and the mother of two daughters. She lived for a long time near Boston, then in Los Angeles. She currently (2018) lives with her family in Barcelona.

Gabriela Montero is also politically active and uses her celebrity to draw attention to the grievances and unrest in her native Venezuela. She is also influenced by social and political issues in her compositions, for example her composition “Ex Patria” is dedicated to her home country.

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