José Menor

Age:
29

Country of Birth:
Spain

Country of Citizenship:
Spain

Currently Residing In:
USA

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José Menor was born in Sabadell, Spain, where he studied piano, chamber music, composition and conducting at the Conservatorio Superior Municipal de Música in Barcelona. He obtained a post-graduate diploma and master's degree from the Royal College of Music in London, where he studied with pianists Yonty Solomon and Kevin Kenner. Mr. Menor is currently studying with Claude Frank and Peter Frankl at the Yale School of Music. Highlights of his 2005-2006 season included concerts with the Barcelona Symphony, Orquestra Simfónica and a recital debut at Wigmore Hall in London. He has given recitals throughout Spain, the UK, the Netherlands, Germany and Italy, and performed in the Festival Internacional de Música y Danza in Granada. Other performances in the UK have included Steinway Hall, St. Martin in the Fields, St. James Picadilly and St. John's Smith Square. In 2004, Mr. Menor was a finalist of the Young Concert Artists Concert Trust, and also won prizes at Ricard Wiñes Competition, Premi Cuitat de Betga and the junior division of the Maria Canals Piano Competition. He was the first prize winner in consecutive years at the World Piano Competition in Cincinnati, performing as a winner at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall at the age of 15. As well as performing as a soloist, he has been a member of the Trio Guinjoan, which has given several recitals in Spain. He is also a composer; his string quartet Limits was premiered in Barcelona in 2001. He has been music director and pianist of chamber opera productions at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. Mr. Menor has received scholarships from the British Council, Pedro Barrié de la Maza Foundation, Myra Hess Trust, Tillett Trust, Generalitat de Catalunya, Fundació La Caixa and Aspen Music Festival and School.

Solo Repertoire

Johann Sebastian Bach:
Toccata in G Minor, BWV 915

Ludwig van Beethoven:
Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57 "Appassionata"

Franz Liszt:
Funerailles

Frédéric Chopin:
Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23

César Franck:
Prelude, Chorale and Fugue

Maurice Ravel:
Jeux d'Eau

Isaac Albéniz:
"Evocation," from Iberia, Book 1
"Triana," from Iberia, Book 2

Sergei Prokofiev:
Sonata No. 7 in B-Flat Major, Op. 83

Sergei Rachmaninov:
Etude-tableau in C Minor, Op. 33, No. 2
Etude-tableau in E-Flat Minor, Op. 33, No. 3

Required Piece

Robert Palmer:
Toccata Ostinato

Trio

Johannes Brahms:
Trio No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 101

Concertos

Ludwig van Beethoven:
Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73, "Emperor"

Sergei Rachmaninov:
Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18

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