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Member Since: 1/26/2007
Sounds Like: Adonis Gonzalez-Matos Plays Rachmaninoff (Full Version)
Rehearsal with Paquito D' Rivera
..Kites over Havana by Paquito D' Rivera
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Adonis Gonzalez began studying music at a very early age in Santiago de Cuba. He graduated with honors from the Superior Institute of Art of Havana, holds a Master of Music Degree from the University of Southern Mississippi, and a Doctoral Degree in Piano Performance from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, where he won the 2005 Concerto Competition. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-Gonzalez won the First Prize of the most important Cuban piano competition, that of the National Association of Cuban Writers and Artists (UNEAC) in 1994, and the First Prize of the Teresa Carreño International Piano Competition in Caracas, Venezuela in 1998. He is also a laureate of the Ernesto Lecuona International Competition of Havana 1995, and a laureate of the 2004 International Piano Competition of the Principality of Andorra. He has performed with orchestras in Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela, and the USA, including among others the National Philharmonic of Venezuela, the Mississippi Symphony, the University of Southern Mississippi Symphony Orchestra, and the Rutgers University Symphony Orchestra.-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-An avid chamber musician, Gonzalez has performed for the The Lyric Chamber Music Society of New York, The Concert Artist Guild of New York and The New Jersey Chamber Music Society. He has collaborated with legendary artists such as mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves, violinist Arnold Steinhardt and clarinetists/saxophonist Paquito D’ Rivera.=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-He has also presented solo recitals, master classes and chamber music performances in Italy, Canada, Andorra, The Czech Republic, Jamaica, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Mexico, Chile and the through the USA. In New York City Dr. Gonzalez has performed at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and at The United Nations. He has been broadcasted live by WQXR, The Classical Radio Station of the New York Times and by several other television and radio stations in the US, Cuba and Spain. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-----=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-Gonzalez is currently a Piano Professor at Passaic County Community College in New Jersey, is also the Music Director of the First Presbyterian Church of Rahway, New Jersey, and is studying Orchestral Conducting at The Juilliard School in New York City.------------------------------------------------------- ---------------
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