Floralba del Monte

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Floralba Casilda del Monte Echavarría (born February 20, 1929 in Santo Domingo ) is a Dominican pianist and music teacher.

Del Monte had her first piano lessons with Luz María Aguilar . From 1942 she attended classes from Mary Siragusa , Luis Emilio Mena and Gabriel del Orbe at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música y Declamación . From 1947 she studied piano with Bernard Gabriel and composition with Edvard Fendler in New York .

In 1949 she made her debut - as the first Dominican musician ever - in New York's famous Carnegie Hall , where she played the world premiere of Juan Francisco García's Dominican Rhapsody. In 1951 she appeared in a piano trio with Sonia Vargas and Dolores Layko in Arthur Godfrey's first US-wide show on CBS . Here she premiered her arrangement of Ernesto Lecuona's composition Malagueña . In 1952 she was invited by the Dominican Ministry of Culture to a series of concerts which she performed in Santiago, Azua, San Cristóbal and Santo Domingo and in which she performed Grieg's piano concerto with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional under the direction of Manuel Simó Grieg .

From 1952 to 1954 del Monte completed her training at the Conservatoire de Paris . During this time she also attended the piano classes of Alfred Cortot at the École Normale de Musique and Julián Trujillo at the Schola Cantorum . From 1959 to 1982 she worked as a professor at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música in Santo Domingo. In addition, as a concert pianist, she worked primarily for the international dissemination of the music of Dominican composers. In 1989 she was awarded the Orden al Mérito de Duarte Sánchez y Mella .

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SURNAME Monte, Floralba del
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Monte Echavarría, Floralba Casilda del
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dominican pianist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Santo Domingo