Persons

Juan María Pedrero

Organ

Biography

Born in Zamora (Castile and Leon, Spain) in 1974. He graduated in organ and piano at the Liceo Conservatory in Barcelona, studying under teachers Josep Maria Mas Bonet (organ) and Ramón Coll (piano). At that time he attended master-classes with professor Michael Radulescu on the complete Bach’s organ music. He continued his studies in France with François-Henri Houbart, obtaining a Premier Prix de Perfectionnement at the Orleans Conservatory. Then, he obtained a scholarship from “la Caixa” Foundation and the French Government which allowed him to study during two years in Paris under Marie-Claire Alain.

In 2000 he won the First Prize at the Concours National Inter-Conservatoires de France, held in Angers. During 2001-2002 he was appointed organist in residence at the Sapporo Concert-Hall in Japan. He has played concerts in Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Portugal, Norway, Slovakia, Canada, Ecuador, Cuba, Panamá, Japan and The Philippines. In 2012 he made his first concert tour in Russia (Ural and Siberia).

He has played with orchestras as Sapporo Symphony (Poulenc’s Organ Concerto and Widor’s Symphony in G-minor), Pacific Music Festival, Kosice Philharmonic and Ciudad de Granada. He has also performed with ensembles as Musica Aeterna Bratislava playing organ and keyboard concerts by Bach, Haendel, C.Ph.E. Bach and J. Haydn, and with soloists as Hopkinson Smith and Maria Cristina Kiehr. He has made recordings on historical organs in Spain and on the Kern organ at the Sapporo Concert Hall, as well for radio and other media. He has collaborated with his sister, the musicologist Agueda Pedrero-Encabo, in the first edition of the Piezas & Tocatas by the Spanish 18th century organist Joseph Elías (Ed. Tritó).

Since 2004 he teaches the organ at the Granada Conservatory. He is a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Granada, and artistic director of the International Organ Academy which is held every year in September.


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191186, St. Petersburg, Mikhailovskaya st., 2
+7 (812) 240-01-80, +7 (812) 240-01-00
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191011, St. Petersburg, Nevsky av., 30
+7 (812) 240-01-70
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