Argentine pianists

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Chapters: Argentine classical pianists, Argentine jazz pianists, Martha Argerich, Daniel Barenboim, Juan María Solare, Fernando Otero, Sergio Calligaris, Atilio Stampone, Fito Páez, Jorge Uliarte, Horacio Lavandera, Daniel Levy, Bebu Silvetti, Juan Carlos Tolosa, Daniel Tinte, Marcelo Peralta, Axel, Cecilia Pillado, Aquiles Delle Vigne, Eduardo Delgado, Oscar Strasnoy, Raúl di Blasio, Mariano Mores, Alberto Neuman, Ingrid Fliter, Mónica Cosachov, Enrique Saborido, Osvaldo Pugliese, Jorge Dalto, Sergio Tiempo, Mario Raskin, Pablo Ziegler, Vincenzo Scaramuzza, Terig Tucci, Oscar Milani, Carlos di Sarli, Octavio Brunetti, Adrián Iaies, Silvia Roederer, Daniel Rivera. Excerpt: Daniel Barenboim (born 15 November 1942) is an Argentinian-Israeli pianist and conductor. He is General Music Director of the Berlin State Opera since 1992. He is also known for his criticism of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and his work with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, a Sevilla-based orchestra of young Arab and Israeli musicians. Barenboim first came to prominence as a pianist but is now better known as a conductor. He is Grand Officier of the Légion d'honneur and has received numerous other awards and prizes, including the German Großes Bundesverdienstkreuz and Spain's Prince of Asturias Concord Award. Daniel Barenboim was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina to parents of Russian Jewish descent. He started piano lessons at the age of five with his mother, continuing to study with his father, who remained his only teacher. On August 19, 1950, at the age of seven, he gave his first formal concert in Buenos Aires. In 1952, the Barenboim family moved to Israel. Two years later, in the summer of 1954, his parents brought him to Salzburg to take part in Igor Markevitch's conducting classes. During that summer he also met and played for Wilhelm Furtwängler, who has remained a central musical influence and ideal for Barenboim. Furtwängler called the young Barenboim a "phenomenon" and invited him to perform the Beethoven First Piano Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic, but Barenboim's father told the maestro that it was too soon after the Holocaust for a child of Jewish parents to be performing in Berlin. Daniel Barenboim, age 11, with the Gadna Symphonic orchestra and conductor Moshe Lustig, 1953In 1955 Barenboim studied harmony and composition with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. Barenboim made his debut as a pianist in Vienna and Rome in 1952, Paris in 1955, London in 1956, and New York in 1957 under the baton of Leopold Stokowski. Regular concert tours of Europe, the United States, South America, Australia and the Far East followed thereafter. In 196