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 Rodrigo Landa-Romero   is a Mexican classical music pianist and composer born January 2006. He began both playing the piano and composing when he was six years old. He has composed more than forty works, including a Symphony, a Piano Concerto, a Symphonic Poem, Six Variations on a theme of Alma Deutscher, among others. Likewise, he has performed numerous piano interpretations of renowned artists in the world of classical music. He has performed in numerous concert halls, including Carnegie Hall in New York City, one of the most important in the world. During the pandemic quarinteen of 2020, he performed a series of online concerts interpretating his own compositions.

Biography
Between ages 6 to 11, he composed 21 Preludes for piano solo and a Dance. At age 11, he began his first orchestral piece, a Piano Concerto, which he finished at age 12. There followed a Concerto for Violin, Piano and Orchestra (age 12), a Fantasie for Four Hands (age 13), a Symphony (age 13), a Symphonic Poem, "Three Cat Scenes" (premiered at Carnegie Hall on December 2019), a Lied, a Vienesse Waltzes from Vienna [[Waltz, a Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello, an Allegro for children's choir, an Adagio for guitar and string quartet (age 14), Three Lullabies (age 14), two Piano Sonatas, as well as Six Variations on a theme by Alma Deutscher. In June 2020 he composed an orchestral audio (50 minutes long) of a wild life documentary, which he composed in only five days.

His piano teachers are Rosa María Torner (Mexican Music Conservatory) and Margarita de la Mora (Mexican Music Conservatory, Juilliard, and Claudio Arrau’s School). Likewise, he studies violin with Damiana Orué (Royal School of Music). His piano technique comes from Scarlatti, Nicola Porpora, Haydn, Beethoven, Czerny, Liszt, Martin Krause, Claudio Arrau, among others.

As a pianist, he has interpreted works of Johann Sebastian Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninoff, Czerny, Alma Deutscher, among others. He won Honorable Mention in the "Grand Prize Virtuoso Vienna International Music Competition 2019" and a Young Talent Award in the "Vienna New Year's Concert International Music Competition 2019" with his performance interpretating Rachmaninoff’s First Movement Piano of the Concerto No. 2 for Piano.

Ever since he began his artistic career at six years of age, he plays on a 110 year old Steinway & Sons profesional concert piano al home, which has allowed him countless hours of piano practice. Likewise he has attended more than 300 live classical music concertos at the Sala Nezahualcóyotl] of the Mexican National Autonomous University ([[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México – UNAM), which seats more that 2,000 expectators.

He is part of the Friends Program of the UNAM Philharmonic Orchestra (OFUNAM) and of the New York Philharmonic (NYPhil).

He has participated in several music competitions, including the “International Music Competition Grand Prize Virtuoso Paris 2020”, where he won First Prize; the  “International Music Competition Grand Prize Virtuoso London 2020”, where he won First Prize; the "American Protégé International Piano & Strings Competitio 2020" at Carnegie Hall, where he won Honorable Mention; the “International Music Competition Grand Prize Virtuoso Vienna 2019", where he won an Honorable Mention; the "Vienna New Year's Concert International Music Competition 2019", where he won a "Young Talent Award"; the "American Protégé International Music Talent Competition Fall 2019" at Carnegie Hall, where he won Third Prize, among others.  Finalist in the International Anton Rubinstein Competition - Piano Junior 2020, Internationale Musikakademie, Dusseldorf, Germany.

Besides his passion for music, he is an avid nature lover.

Compositions
Symphonic Works


 * Concerto for Piano, Violin and Orchestra Op. 3
 * Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Op. 5
 * Symphony Op. 8 No. 1 "Marcelino"
 * Symphonic Poem Op. 12
 * Variations on a theme by Alma Deutscher (for piano and orchestra)

Chamber Works


 * 21 Preludes for piano solo Op. 1 (ages 6-11)
 * Piano Sonata Op. 2 No.1
 * Piano Sonata No. 2
 * Dance Op. 4
 * Etude Op. 6
 * Fantasie for four hands Op. 7
 * Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello Op. 9
 * Valzer alla Viennese Op. 10
 * Three Cat Scenes Op. 11
 * Lied "El Colibrí" (piano solo version)
 * Lyrics: Montserrat Romero Ceceña
 * Allegro for children's choir "Galeras de Plata"
 * (Lyrics: José Moreno Villa)
 * Adagio for guitar and string quartet
 * Lullabies for Ludovica
 * Hope Scenes

Awards

 * First Prize at the "International Music Competition Grand Prize Virtuoso Paris 2020".


 * First Prize at the "International Music Competition Grand Prize Virtuoso London 2020".


 * Finalist at the International Anton Rubinstein Competition - Piano Junior 2020, Internationale Musikakademie, Dusseldorf, Germany.
 * Honorable Mention at the "American Protégé International Piano and Strings Competition 2020" at Carnegie Hall.
 * Third Prize at the "American Protégé International Music Talent Competition Fall 2019" at Carnegie Hall.
 * Honorable Mention at the "International Music Competition Vienna Grand Prize Virtuoso 2019".
 * Young Talent Award at the "Vienna New Year's Concert International Music Competition 2019 - Piano Category".
 * Honorable Mention at the "International Music Competition Vienna Grand Prize Virtuoso 2019".
 * Young Talent Award at the "Vienna New Year's Concert International Music Competition 2019 - Piano Category".
 * Young Talent Award at the "Vienna New Year's Concert International Music Competition 2019 - Piano Category".
 * Young Talent Award at the "Vienna New Year's Concert International Music Competition 2019 - Piano Category".

Discography – Digital Albums
"Hope", piano solo, compositions by Rodrigo Landa-Romero, 35 minutes, June 2020.

"The Mountains", Digital orchestra, compositions by Rodrigo Landa-Romero, 50 minutes, June 2020.