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Alberto Reyes is a known Uruguayan

Uruguay

Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...

pianist

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and United Nations

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interpreter.

Biography

Born in Montevideo

Montevideo

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, Uruguay

Uruguay

, in 1948, Alberto Reyes started piano studies at the age of six with Sarah Bourdillon a pupil of Alfred Cortot's Ecole Normale de Musique, and played his first public recital

Recital

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at the age of eight. During his teens, he made many appearances in recital an as orchestral soloist in Uruguay, Argentina

Argentina

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, and Brazil

Brazil

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. He made his debut with the Uruguayan Symphony

Symphony

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Orchestra

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(S.O.D.R.E.) at thirteen. In 1966, as a recipient of a full scholarship from the Organization of American States

Organization of American States

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, Reyes went to the United States

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to study at the Indiana University School of Music with American pianist, Sidney Foster, the first Leventritt Award winner and a pupil of David Saperton

David Saperton

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at the Curtis Institute of Music'.

In 1971, as a laureate

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of the Leventritt Competition in the United States, Reyes made his first North America

North America

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n tour. The following year, he became the first Uruguayan pianist to tour the former Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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as laureate of the 1970 Tchaikovsky Competition

International Tchaikovsky Competition

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. Reyes made his New York

New York

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orchestral debut in 1974 at the Avery Fisher Hall

Avery Fisher Hall

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in Lincoln Center, and his New York recital debut at the Kaufmann

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Concert Hall of the 92nd Street Y

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, presented by the America's Society.

Reyes is also a prize winner in the Van Cliburn

Van Cliburn

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(U.S.) and Rio de Janeiro

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(Brazil) international competitions, and has recorded Liszt

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's Complete Paraphrases

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and Transcriptions from Verdi Operas for Connoisseur Society

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. Two of those transcriptions, Salve Maria from I Lombardi and Simon Boccanegra
Simon Boccanegra
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were the object of piracy in the notorious Joyce Hatto

Joyce Hatto

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recording scandal. In October 2009, VAI Audio released Alberto Reyes's recording of the two Chopin Sonatas and other major works, and in October 2010, VAI Audio released Alberto Reyes plays Schumann Reyes also toured in Canada

Canada

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