Jesús María Sanromá

Jesús María Sanromá, 1953

Jesús María Sanromá (born November 7, 1903 in Fajardo , † October 12, 1984 in San Juan ) was a Puerto Rican pianist and music teacher.

The son of a Catalan emigrant made his debut as a pianist at the municipal theater of his native city at the age of eleven and received a scholarship at the age of thirteen, which enabled him to study at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston with Antoinette Szumowska-Adamowska (1924-27). He continued his training in 1927 with Alfred Cortot in Paris and Artur Schnabel in Berlin. In 1924 he was hired by Sergei Kussewitzki as a pianist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra . For twenty years he was the solo pianist of this orchestra, with which he performed works by contemporary composers such as Sergei Prokofjew , Paul Hindemith , Walter Piston , Ernst Toch , Heitor Villa-Lobos , Vernon Duke , Edward Burlingame Hill , John Carpenter , Ernest Bloch , Carlos Chavez , Igor Stravinsky , Pablo Casals and Leonard Bernstein performed and recorded.

He worked with Igor Stravinsky , with whom he was friends, Paul Hindemith , Sergei Prokofjew and Carlos Chávez as conductors and in 1930 became a member of the Boston Pops Orchestra , with which he often worked as a duo with Arthur Fiedler . From 1943 he was under contract with the Columbia Artists Company . His recordings of Rhapsody in Blue and the Piano Concerto by George Gershwin , Sergei Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto, the Piano Concertos by Edward MacDowell and a collection of danzas by the Puerto Rican composer Juan Morel Campos are considered important .

From 1931 to 1936, Sanromá was a professor at the Universidad de Puerto Rico . He helped found the conservatory there and headed its piano department until his death. He also taught for a long time at the New England Conservatory , which held a concert on his 75th birthday in 1978. He was honored with several honorary doctorates for his work.

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SURNAME	Sanromá, Jesús María
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Puerto Rican pianist and music educator
DATE OF BIRTH	November 7, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	Fajardo (Puerto Rico)
DATE OF DEATH	October 12, 1984
Place of death	San Juan (Puerto Rico)