Sergio Caram

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Sergio Caram (born October 19, 1967 (other sources cite October 18) in Salto , Uruguay ) is a Uruguayan pianist.

education

Caram first studied at the Conservatorio Vicente Pablo in Salto with Irma N. Derrégibus . From 1985 he deepened and perfected his musical skills with Lidia Tróccoli in Montevideo. In the following year he received the opportunity to go to the USA as part of a student exchange scholarship. There he then studied on a four-year scholarship at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh . He graduated from Nelson Whitaker with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Piano Performance in 1990 with a degree in fine arts specializing in music . From there, Caram continued his life in the same year, this time with a scholarship from his US university for music education, to Brazil during the winter. Starting in 1991, he was tutored by Irene Weiss Peery in Utah for a year and a half .

Musical career

Caram, who now lives mainly in the USA in New Jersey, performed for the first time as a piano soloist with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Carnegie Mellon University. In 1993 he won second prize at the Utah Mozart Festival competition in Park City . Two years later he received the third prize in the international competition in Hilton Head Island . In that year he also made his first appearance in Montevideo with the SODRE Symphony Orchestra. Piero Gamba acted as conductor on this occasion . In 1997 he appeared as a solo pianist with the Montevideos Philharmonic. In 1999 he gave a performance at the United Nations in New York in the Auditorium Dag Hammarskjöld . In the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires , he also played that year in the Salón Dorado several concerts. His first record, recorded in Englewood , came from that year and was followed by another two years later in Cologne . Caram also gave concerts in Washington, Ottawa, Rome and Brussels, among others.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FELIZ DIARIO (Spanish) in La República of October 18, 2008, accessed on May 13, 2012
  2. ↑ Presumably the winter of the southern hemisphere is meant here, since the publication serving as the source appeared in Uruguay
personal data
SURNAME Caram, Sergio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan pianist
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Salto (Uruguay) , Uruguay