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Rubén Lorenzo is a Spanish pianist born in Zaragoza. He is considered to have one of the most extensive repertoire among the Spanish pianists of his generation.

A recognized Spanish music performer, over the last years he has been making an effort to promote lesser-known pieces by prominent Spanish composers such as Isaac Albéniz, Manuel de Falla, Enrique Granados, Federico Mompou, Antonio Soler, Joaquín Turina, Rodolfo Halffter, Gustavo Pittaluga, Salvador Bacarisse o Aita Donostia, among others.

Biography
Rubén Lorenzo started his education in Zaragoza with Julieta Bel, Lazare Lévy's protégé, and he later continued with Pedro Espinosa and Josep Colom in Madrid. In 1984, he moved to London where he studied with Louis Kentner and Nariné Haroutiunian, daughter of the prominent Armenian composer Alexander Haroutiunian, after winning the first edition of the Pilar Bayona's Grant (Beca Pilar Bayona) and after receiving the Piano Honour Award and the Chamber Music Honour Award from the Zaragoza Music Conservatory.

His intense concert activity since 1982 has led him to act, praised by the critics  , in prestigious venues in different countries such as the Franz Liszt Hall of Budapest, the Weill Recital Hall (Carnegie Hall) of New York, Villa Louvigny Theatre in Luxembourg, the Salle Cortot of Paris, Simon Bolivar Amphitheater in Mexico, the Lee Hysan Concert Hall in Hong Kong or the Brooklyn Theatre in Pretoria , among others.

He has recorded Goyescas by Granados and also unreleased Spanish repertoire from his home region, as well as various CDs with works by Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Liszt, Gottschalk and Albéniz, among pieces by contemporary composers.

Throughout his career, he has performed an extensive repertoire, from Beethoven, with several complete series, to the XXI century, including the premiere in Spain of the complete volumes of Makrokosmos by George Crumb, a flagship piece of the technique of contemporary piano.

Besides his intense activity as a soloist, he has always shown a great interest in the research of musical interpretation. Therefore, Rubén Lorenzo's intepretative style is greatly influenced by the objective analysis of the musical interpretation of the great masters of piano using spectrographic methods.

He received a Doctor of Music degree cum laude from the Polytechnic University of Valencia and he also won the Extraordinary Doctoral Thesis Award for his research on methodologies of analysis of the musical interpretation. He has also been an active participant in different conferences and seminars in several universities in China and Latin America.

He is Chairman of the Aragonese Association of Music Interpreters since 1993 and President of the Aragonese Council for Arts Education of the Aragón Government since 2011.

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