Maria Luisa Lopez-Vito

María Luisa López-Vito (born August 10, 1939 in Iloilo / Philippines ) is a Filipino-German pianist .

biography

López-Vito has been playing the piano since she was four. At the University of Santo Tomas in Manila , she was a student of Benjamin Tupas , one of the most important contemporary composers in the Philippines, before she went to the USA to study with Olga Stroumillo at the Mannes College of Music in New York . Important for López-Vito was a scholarship, which she received in 1961 for the Marlboro School in Vermont, where she studied with Rudolf Serkin . Also, Claude Frank , Friedrich Wührer and Georges Cziffra have encouraged early. - López-Vito emerged as a multiple prize winner from the major piano competitions (Van Cliburn, Orense, Casella and Busoni competitions , Liszt-Bartók competition, Cziffra Concours, etc.). After her debut concerts in New York, concert tours soon took the pianist to most European countries. After spending several years in Spain, she moved to Germany in the early 1970s.

López-Vito's repertoire includes almost the entire piano literature since the Baroque. It was first noticed by the expressive and virtuoso interpretations of the works of Chopin , Liszt and Ravel . From the very beginning, however, the focus was on the great works of the Classical and Romantic periods, especially Beethoven's sonatas and piano concertos . In the last two decades she has increasingly turned to new music; Composers like Tupas, Victor Fenigstein and Hubert Stuppner have entrusted López-Vito with world premieres. She has often given concerts with the Ensemble Musica Negativa by Heinz-Klaus Metzger and Rainer Riehn .

López-Vito was particularly committed to the composer Theodor W. Adorno , whose works for piano were all premiered and edited by her. She has also often participated as an accompanist in performances of Adorno's piano songs.

Publications

• Victor Fenigstein, Trois hommages for piano. LP (Victor Fenigstein, Instrumental and Orchestral Works), Apollo Sound, London 1974. AS 1019
• Adorno's compositions for piano in the context of the Second Viennese School alone. Live recording of a concert, Munich 1999. CD, edition text + kritik by Richard Borberg Verlag, 2003
• Theodor W. Adorno, piano pieces. Edited by María Luisa Lopez-Vito, afterword by Rolf Tiedemann . Munich: edition text + kritik by Richard Borberg Verlag, 2001
• Theodor W. Adorno, Compositions, Vol. 3: Compositions from the estate. Edited by Maria Luisa Lopez-Vito and Ulrich Krämer. Munich: edition text + kritik by Richard Borberg Verlag, 2007