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Gustavo Romero,(born April 14 1965), is an internationally renowned American classical concert pianist.

Biography
Born in San Diego with heritage in Guadalajara, Mexico, Mr. Romero discovered his love and gift for the piano at the age of five and gave his first public performances at the age of 10, when he also won his first piano competition. At 13, he performed with the New York Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta. His exceptional talent was recognized by Rudolf Serkin, and at the age of 14 he attended the Juilliard School.

Mr. Romero has won many prizes including first prize in the prestigious Clara Haskil International Piano Competition in Switzerland 989) The Avery Fisher Career Grant and The Musical America Young Artist Award.

He has been featured by NPR, BBC Radio and Radio France. A feature film about his life and artistry was produced in 2012 by The Snapshots Music and Art Foundation: Portrait in Piano. His recordings include works by Chopin, Mompou, Debussy, Albeniz, Scarlatti and the five Beethoven concerti with the English Chamber Orchestra.

Performances
Mr Romero has performed with the world's leading orchestras including: The New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony, Houston Symphony, The Boston Pops Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Honolulu Symphony, New World Symphony, English Chamber Orchestra, Radio France Orchestra, Philharmonia Hungarica, New Japan Philharmonic, Shanghai Orchestra, Cape Town Philharmonic, Russian Symphony Orchestra, Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Liège Philharmonic, a concert internationally televised from the United Nations.

Past seasons have taken him to France, England, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Russia, the Czech Republic, China, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, Thailand, Hong Kong, South Africa, Argentina, New Zealand, Canada, Norway, Austria, Bulgaria, Mexico and all across the United States. Mr. Romero has performed in some of the leading concert halls of the world, including Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Centre, The Barbican in London, The Berlin Philharmonie, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, The Great Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow and Salle Gaveau in Paris.

For the past sixteen years, Mr. Romero has performed a summer series of concerts in La Jolla, California, sponsored by the Athenaeum Music and Arts Library featuring music of one composer each year. He has presented the works of Chopin, Bach, Schumann, Schubert, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Haydn, Händel, Liszt, Debussy, Gershwin, Ravel and Rachmaninoff, the complete piano sonatas of Beethoven and Mozart, the complete four-hand and two-piano works of Mozart and piano concerti of Mozart, Beethoven and Mendelssohn conducting from the keyboard.

In the 2015 season Mr. Romero's focus returns to the complete piano sonatas of Beethoven and the piano works of Schubert. Concert tours include China, Korea, Taiwan, Italy, Ireland, South Africa and the United States.

Teaching
For the past 17 years Mr Romero has taught as a professor of the piano at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and University of North Texas, Denton. He has also presents masterclasses all around the world, including Seoul National University,Venice South Africa,New Zealand,

Discography
* Five Beethoven Concertos with the English Chamber Orchestra: * Chopin Complete Impromptus * Turina/Rodrigo: the San Diego Symphony * Mompou Complete Cançiones y danzas/Impresiones intimas

Gitano== References ==

http://www.youtube.com/embed/9mXEBGd4FKA