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TCU’s cello professor Jesús Castro-Balbi performs internationally as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician, in such prestigious forums as the Bass Hall in Fort Worth, the Meyerson Hall in Dallas, Lincoln Center as well as five recent appearances at Weill Hall, Carnegie Hall in New York. His performances have earned him favorable reviews in major media including the Dallas Morning News, the Fort Worth Star Telegram, the Strad Magazine, Strings Magazine, and the New York Concert Review, and have been broadcast on BBC World, Japanese public television NHK, Korean national television KBS, French television TV5-Arte, and in the US on WNYC, WGBH, WRR, and NPR. In parallel to these activities, Dr. Castro-Balbi created and developed the TCU Cellofest, the TCU Cello Ensemble, the Germán Gutiérrez Award, the Texas Cello Society; serves as Associate Dean at the Conservatory Music in the Mountains in Durango, Colorado, and as conductor of the String Orchestra at the Greater Fort Worth Youth Orchestras.
Among other distinctions, Dr. Castro-Balbi received the First Prize at the First “Carlos Prieto” Latin American Cello Competition in Mexico; the Aldo Parisot Prize at Yale; and the Schwartz Foundation - Salon de Virtuosi Award in New York City. In 2008, he received the Deans’ Research and Creativity Award at TCU. Dr. Castro-Balbi has served as a juror to the “Carlos Prieto” International Cello Competition since 2002, and to the Sphinx Competition and to other national and regional contests. He has presented master-classes and lectures at the Boston Conservatory, The Juilliard School, Paris National Conservatory in France, the University of Colorado at Boulder, the Yale School of Music, the Music School Attached to the Central Conservatory and the University of Nationalities in Beijing, China.
Dr. Castro-Balbi appears in seven compact discs, including Passion and Glory with CLAVIER TRIO (with violinist Arkady Fomin and pianist David Korevaar), and Rapsodia Latina with the Lin / Castro-Balbi Duo (with pianist Gloria Lin), featuring the world premiere recording of seven works for cello and piano. Altogether, Dr. Castro-Balbi has presented twenty premiere performances of such noted composers as Lera Auerbach, Blaise Ferrandino, Robert Garwell, Osvaldo Golijov, Andrés Posada, Robert Rodriguez, Edgar Valcárcel, and Samuel Zyman, including of seven works written for him.
Dr. Castro-Balbi is a graduate of the Conservatoire National Supérieur in Lyon (France), Indiana University at Bloomington, Yale, and of The Juilliard School. He studied cello with Iseut Chuat, Marc Coppey, Jean Deplace, Aldo Parisot and Janos Starker and chamber music with Boris Berman, the late Rostislav Dubinsky, Joseph Kalischtein, Fred Sherry and members of the Amadeus, Juilliard, Ravel and Tokyo String Quartets.
2009
Website: www.jcbcello.com
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