CURRICULUM
VITAE
Argentine pianist born in Buenos Aires. She was a pupil of Claudio
Arrau and Rafael de Silva in New York, where she stayed for fíve
years, with a scholarship granted by the Pan American Unión
in Washington, that also included studies of Musiology and Electronic
Music at Columbia University. In Buenos Aires from the early age
of six until she was twenty years oíd she studied with
the famous professor Vicente Scaramuzza and afterwards with Mercedes
Me Donough.
She
played her fírst concert at the age of eight, a two piano
performance together with her mother, the well known pianist Delia
Sacerdote.
Graciela
Beretervide graduated at the National Conservatory of Music ot
Buenos Aires and at present she is Professor of Senior Piano Courses.
She
has performed in Buenos Aires for the most important Music Societies
like "'Asociación Wagneriana" "Mozarteum
Argentino" and at the Cervantes and Colon Theatres. She also
performed in most of the argentine provinces.
The
Camegie Hall Corporation hired her for four concerts while she
was at the United States, one of them at the Carnegie Hall of
New York. In that city she also played at a recital of Spanish
Music, sponsored by the Spanish Institute of New York, works by
Soler and Granados. For this occasion she received the musical
supervisión of the great pianist Alicia de Larrocha.
She
has performed in many concert tours in Europe, specially in Spain
(Madrid, Oviedo, Gijón), Paris, Brussels, Rome and Vienna.
She
succeded in Ottawa (Canadá) where she had excellent reviews
ot her concerts.
She
also played in South and Central American Countries like Chile,
México (Festival Internacional Cervantino 1986), Paraguay
and Colombia being invited in several opportunities to díctate
Master Courses on Claudio Arrau's Piano School.
In
September 1989 she was invited by the "Societé Philarmonique
Algerienne" to participate at the "First International
Music Festival of Tipaza" (Argelia) with musicians of fífteen
countries, immediately following her European concert tour.
She
was the only argentine pianist who went in June 1991 to the Funeral
ofthe great pianist Claudio Arrau in Chile, where she returned
one month later, to play on July 301, a recital at the "Claudio
Arrau Hall" in the Teatro Municipal of Santiago de Chile,
obtaining enthusiastic reviews.
At
the musical season of 1991, she was invited by the Colon Theatre
of Buenos Aires to play with the outstanding pianist Manuel Rego
and the Philarmonic Orchestra of Buenos Aires the Mozart double
Concert for two pianos and orchestra K.385 conducted by Gabor
Otvos, repeating this performance with the Mar del Plata Symphony
Orchestra.
Both concerts had great success and excellent reviews.
In
1992 she played concerts in several European cities. In September
of this year she went to the city of Córdoba (Argentina)
to offer an homage to Claudio Arrau, playing the Four Temperaments by Paul Hindemith, with the Córdoba Strings Orchestra, Conducted
by Herbert Diehl.
In
1994 she successfully played at the Borges Hall of Buenos Aires
National Library on a music cycle of "Six Argentine Solists".
From
1994 to the present she plays concerts regularly in Salvador de
Bahia (Brasil), Sponsored by the "José Silveira Foundation",
including in her performances works of argentine and brazilian
composers, having being qualifíed by the musical reviews
as a great virtuoso and inspired pianist.
In
1995 she played an extense tour at the argentine provinces and
aiso recorded programs for T.V. and Radio Nacional of Buenos Aires,
including first performances of several argentine composers.
In
the year 2000 she successfully played an homage to the well known
argentine composer Alberto Williams at the Colón theatre,
performing a great part of his piano music.
In
2001 she was engaged by the "Cedesa Company" to play
an important recital to European, Canadian and American Bank presidents.
This concert took place at the "Fernandez Blanco Museum"
of Buenos Aires and she performed works by Chopin and argentine
composers.
From
1996 she is Vicepresident of the Frederik Chopin Foundation of
Argentina connected with the Varsovian Chopin Foundation in Poland.
She has made many broadcasts with national televisión, Radio France, Radio Nacional Clásica de Buenos Aires, ORTF (Radio Televisión Francesa) Radio Vaticana, Braziiian National Radio, and was invited to play in the Árgentine televisión series "GfÜQes Solistas Argentinos (Great Argentine Soloists).
A highly interdisciplinary musician, she has undertaken many other projects in the literary sphere, collaboraíing in 2004 with Daniel Barenboim and Bruno Gelber in an article for the Germán magazine "Piano News" on the nature of music-making in Argentina and the National Conservatory. She performed many lectures about "Mozart and bis piano repertoire"; "Alberto Ginastera and his Opera Bomarzo"; "Claudio Arrau as a Pianist and as a person"; and "Two Chilean Nobel Prize winners: Pablo Nemda and Gabriela Mistral in the Music". "The music in literary works of the great Italian writer Syria Poletti". Also she has been Vice-President of the Federico Chopin Foundation in Buenos Aires. Since 1996 she organizes the "Young Talents Festival" at the Argentine-Germán Cultural Institute.
She continúes with her musical activities all over Europe and South American countries.
In September 2005 the "Juan de Garay Basque-Argentine Foundation" awarded her with the annuai Prize of the Culture.
In 2006 she was invited to perform piano concerts at the U.K. in the cities of Cambridge, Leeds, Sheffield, Nottingham and London. She also performed master classes at the Trínity College of Music. After this she played in France and Switzerland.
She dictated master classes about Claudio Arrau School of Music and also played many concerts at the argentine provinces all this at the same time with her teaching at the National Conservatory of Music of Buenos Aires.
On the occasionof the celebrationof Argentine Bi-Centennary (1810-2010) she has been invited to play at many Germán cities.
Her
former professor Claudio Arrau said about her "It is a great
pleasure to listen to Graciela Beretervide perform. Her musical
sensitivity, her sound rich in nuances and her understanding of
the spirit of the compositions she plays, make her a great artist".
