Miriam Ariza

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Miriam Ariza Morel (born January 8, 1940 in San Francisco de Macorís ) is a Dominican pianist and music teacher.

Ariza studied at the Conservatorio Nacional de Santo Domingo with Mary Siragusa and Manuel Rueda and taught piano here from 1957. She completed her piano training at the Real Conservatorio de Madrid with José Cubiles and at the Conservatorio de Música de San Juan in Puerto Rico with Jesús María Sanromá . After all, she was a student of Pedro Lerma León and Manuel Carra in Madrid. In 1968 she was one of the finalists of the Concurso Internacional de Intérpretes de Música Española in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

She has performed as a soloist in Spain, France and the USA and gave concerts with her husband, the violinist Jacinto Gimbernard , and the singer Arístides Incháustegui at Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (TF1), Radio France and Carnegie Hall in New York. With the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de la República Dominicana she gave concerts under the direction of Manuel Simó , Jacinto Gimbernard, Carlos Piantini , Rafael Villanueva and Julio de Windt .

On the 40th anniversary of the orchestra's founding, Ariza played Beethoven's fourth and fifth piano concerto. In 1986 she was awarded the Premio "El Dorado" of the Academia Nacional de Ciencias y Artes as a classical pianist.

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