Roberto Eyzaguirre is a Peruvian-American classical pianist and famed piano pedagogue. He was a longtime friend and pupil of the legendary 20th century virtuoso pianist Claudio Arrau

Claudio Arrau

Claudio Arrau León was a Chilean pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning from the baroque to 20th-century composers, especially Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms and Debussy...

, who had studied under a pupil

Martin Krause

Martin Krause was a German concert pianist, piano teacher, music critic, and writer.- Career :Martin Krause was born in Lobstädt, Saxony as the youngest son of the choirmaster and church schoolmaster Johann Carl Friedrich Krause in Lobstädt...

 of Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...

. He is notable for his colorful playing and "big tone".

With Arrau's assistance, Eyzaguirre made his Carnegie Hall debut in the 1960s. Despite showing early signs of exceptional promise, Eyzaguirre's career was cut short due to ulcers. Unable to return to performing, he received a doctorate in musicology

Musicology

Musicology is the scholarly study of music. The word is used in narrow, broad and intermediate senses. In the narrow sense, musicology is confined to the music history of Western culture...

 and turned to teaching. He formerly taught at School of the Holy Child

School of the Holy Child

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 and Houston Baptist University

Houston Baptist University

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. His many successful students include the acclaimed conductor John Axelrod

John Axelrod

John Neal Axelrod is an American conductor. Axelrod is currently Conductor and Music Director of l'Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, based in Nantes and Angers, France; and, from the 2011/12 season the Principal Conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica "Giuseppe Verdi" also known as "laVerdi"...

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Eyzaguirre was also briefly mentioned in Beryl Singleton Bissell's The Scent of God: A Memoir.

He currently resides in Houston, Texas

Houston, Texas

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