The SGAE Center Cultural Room hosts the presentation of the book Valencian Pianists born until the middle of the 20th century: concert artists, teachers, composers, musicologists, music critics..., written by the musicologist, pianist and teacher Monica Orengo Miret.
Organized by the M.I. Valencian Music Academy, The event will be presented by the president of this entity, as well as prologue of the book, Roberto Loras, and will feature the intervention of the author.
The volume addresses the biographies of almost three hundred people born between the mid-18th century and the mid-20th century., and who had the piano as their instrument of study. As a result of the complicated period they had to live through, Many of them had to carry out other types of activities to survive., within the field of music (as teachers, musicologists, music critics...) or without any type of connection, but they always had music very present in their lives. "Unfortunately, in many cases, These pianists have been forgotten, although they have had brilliant careers in the past and created a true school of musicians around them”, explains Mónica Orengo. In that sense, The book is presented as a “deserved tribute to all, through their lives, achievements, challenges, of his legacy in the rich musical heritage of the Valencian Community”, duck.
Mónica Orengo Miret has a higher degree in Piano, Chamber music, Sol-fa, Repentization, Transposition and Accompaniment, and Musical Pedagogy, by the Valencia Conservatory of Music, and doctor from the Polytechnic University of Valencia with the thesis Eduardo López-Chavarri Marco and his contribution to music for solo piano. As a pianist, has given numerous concerts. Besides, He has taught classes at the Valencia Conservatory of Music and at different professional conservatories..
