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Hailed as “an exceptional cellist” (Dallas Morning News), “an artist of the first rank, who commanded a huge range of volume, timbre and emotions” (Fort Worth Star Telegram), and praised for his “rich and warm tone, with lots of variety of inflection and nuance” (New York Concert Review), Peruvian-born cellist Jesús Castro-Balbi has been featured at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and in prestigious venues in China, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Korea, Latvia, Mexico, and Peru. Among other distinctions, Dr. Castro-Balbi is the winner of the Aldo Parisot Prize, the Salon de Virtuosi Award in New York, and of the First Prize at the First “Carlos Prieto” International Cello Competition. He has performed as a soloist with the Leipzig MDR, Dallas, Fort Worth, Huntsville, Aarhus, Cannes, Aguascalientes and Xalapa Symphony Orchestras, the Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra, and the National Symphony in Lima.
Highlights of his discography include Passion and Glory, Transfigured Night, and Rapsodia Latina, which features 7 world premiere recordings. Dr. Castro-Balbi presented the premiere performances of music by such noted composers as Esteban Benzecry, Martin Blessinger, Blaise Ferrandino, Robert Garwell, Osvaldo Golijov, Luis-Jorge Gonzalez, John Harbison, Andrés Posada, Robert Rodriguez, Edgar Valcarcel, and Samuel Zyman.
A sought-after pedagogue, Dr. Castro-Balbi has conducted master-classes and lectures at Beijing’s Central Conservatory, The Juilliard School, Paris Conservatory, the Leipzig Hochschule, and the Yale School of Music. Dr. Castro-Balbi is a graduate of the Conservatoire National Supérieur at Lyon, Indiana University at Bloomington, Yale, and earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at The Juilliard School. He studied cello with Aldo Parisot and Janos Starker, and chamber music with members of the Amadeus, Juilliard, Ravel and Tokyo String Quartets.
At present, Dr. Castro-Balbi is Associate Professor at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas, where he is also the founder and artistic director of the TCU Cellofest, a world-class celebration of the cello, and of the Faculty & Friends Chamber Music Series. During the summer, he teaches at the Conservatory Music in the Mountains in Durango, Colorado.
2011
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