Patricia García Torres, piano

PATRICIA GARCIA -TORRES, piano

“ she  played with a fine, perfect balance between grace and strength”

Barry L. Cohen,  The New Music Connoisseur Magazine, New York, New York.

“all the masterpieces were treated with the individuality of character that an exceptional pianist identifies when expressing the intentions of the composer, more than just notes”

Barry L. Cohen, The New Music Connoisseur Magazine, New York, New York.

She graduated as pianist from the National Music Conservatory of Mexico City, where she studied with Maria Teresa Castrillon, continuing her perfection in New York City  with Toni Grünschlag and in Mexico City in the Perfecting School “Vida y Movimiento” under the instruction of Guadalupe Parrondo. She has taken magisterial classes with masters Jörg Demus, Georgy Sandor, Agustin Anievas, Aurora Serratos and Angelica Morales, in the last years she has worked with Toni Grünschlag in New York.

Garcia -Torres has received the highest praises for her classical music interpretations, as well as for the interpretation of other contemporary composer’s masterpieces. In January of 2007 Steinway & Sons of New York named her International Steinway Artist, recognition granted to the best pianist in the world.

During the fall of 2005, she offered with great success her debut concert in Carnegie Hall in New York receiving excellent reviews.

That same year she was granted the “Promomedios[1] Radio Prize for Woman of the Year 2005” for her artistic trajectory, Woman of the year 2009 of Guadalajara City and Jalisco Award in the Arts 2009.

The important national trajectory of Garcia -Torres has also had international resonance representing Mexico in concerts in Carnegie Hall and Steinway Hall in New York City, in the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., University of Tucson, Arizona, Garvan Gardens, Arkansas, San Jose California,  Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Peru, Germany, Hungary in the Franz Liszt Orchestra Chamber of Budapest, Austria in the “Mexican Musicians in Vienna” Festival in the Franz Schubert Museum House in Vienna and National centre for the Performing Arts, Beijing China.

She has appeared in the most important halls of Mexico, in the Fine Arts Palace, Blas Galindo Hall of the CENART, Silvestre Revueltas Hall as well as others.

She has participated as a soloist with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Acapulco, the Philharmonic of Jalisco, National Symphony, the University Symphony of Nuevo Leon, the Symphony of Morelia, Symphony Orchestra of Trujillo Peru, she has played under the baton of Enrique Diemecke, Hector Guzman, Francisco Savin, Eudardo Alvarez, Jose Gorostiza, Antonio Lopez-Rios, Mario Rodriguez Taboada, Francisco Pereda amongst others.

In 1997 she joined with violinist Savva Latsanich and made a record dedicated to Mexican composers of the twentieth century “Mexican Music for Piano and Violin” of Quindecim Recordings, presented in the Fine Arts Palace in Mexico City. Besides this important achievement in 2004 Garcia Torres presented her record with piano solo pieces “The Journey” with the same recording label, which she presented in the Art Museum of Zapopan. She has offered master classes in the Costa Rica University, in the National Conservatory of Guatemala, the Trujillo Conservatory in Peru and The Cabañas Cultural Institute, Guadalajara, Mexico.

In the fall of 2007 and 2008 she presented in Guadalajara with support of the Public Culture and Education State Department of the state of Jalisco didactic concerts for children “The Black King, the Piano ®” with an audience of over 8000 children  and thus carry out the goal of giving culture to everyone. Also in California USA and in The National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing China.

She has lived in Guadalajara, Mexico for the past 22 where she develops her intense artistic activity within the country and abroad.