Catana Perez de Cuello

Mercedes Catana Pérez de Cuello (born November 25, 1948 in Moca ) is a Dominican pianist and musicologist.

Pérez was a piano student of Maricusa del Monte and studied at the Conservatorio Nacional with Vicente Grisolía and Mary Siragusa until 1966 . In 1967 she took part in the National Music Camp in Interlochen, where she attended courses in piano, music history, music analysis and choral music and in 1968 a course in orchestral conducting with Enrique García Asensio . Between 1969 and 1972 she completed postgraduate studies with Pietro Scarpini and Emma Contestable at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome. In 1981 she took part in a seminar for piano interpretation with Alberto Pomeranz .

In 1964 she performed with Iván Rodríguez and the Chamber Orchestra of the Conservatorio Nacional de Música under the direction of Julio de Windt in Bach's Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra. In 1974 she made her debut at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in a program with works by Schumann , Scarlatti , Casella and Chopin . In 1986 she performed piano concerto with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional under the direction of Berton Dimes Scriabin , and in 1998 with the pianist Ramón Díaz Peralta and the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional under the direction of Julio de Windt Poulenc's Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra.

In addition, she became known as a music critic and scholar. She published u. a. the books Universo de la Música and (with Rafael Solano ) El Merengue: Musica y Baile de la Republica Dominicana . For the latter she received the Premio Nacional de la Feria del Libro . In 2008 she was appointed director of the Teatro Nacional Eduardo Brito by President Leonel Fernández .

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SURNAME	Pérez de Cuello, Catana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pérez de Cuello, Mercedes Catana (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dominican pianist and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 25, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH	Moca