{{short description|Cuban-American classical pianist (born 1948)}} {{Original research|date=June 2020}}
'''Horacio Gutiérrez''' (born 1948) is a Cuban-American classical pianist known for his performances of works in the Romantic Repertoire.<ref>{{cite news|quote= This young Cuban‐American virtuoso has an affinity with the keyboard that is given to few pianists, and it enables him to make distinctions of tone quality and dynamics that are not characteristic of most of the playing one hears.|title= Horacio Gutierrez Gives Engrossing Piano Recital|newspaper=New York Times|date= 10 May 1976|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/05/10/archives/horacio-gutierrez-gives-engrossing-piano-recital.html |access-date=5 June 2019}}</ref>
==Early life and education== When Fidel Castro gained control of Cuba in 1959, the family decided to leave the country.<ref name="Muller">Muller, Alberto, "Horacio Gutiérrez: El Mejor Pianista del Mundo", ''Diario de Las Americas'', Oct. 20. 2007</ref>
He moved with his family to the United States in 1962,<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ht-2AAAAIAAJ&q=horacio+Guti%C3%A9rrez++born+in+Havana,+Cuba, |title = Stagebill|year = 1981}}</ref> studying in Los Angeles with Sergei Tarnowsky, Vladimir Horowitz's first teacher in Kiev, and later at the Juilliard School under Adele Marcus, a pupil of Russian pianist Josef Lhévinne.<ref>{{citation |url= https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/horacio-gutierrez-piano//|title= Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Horacio Gutierrez |access-date=3 June 2019}}</ref> He later worked extensively with American pianist William Masselos, a pupil of Carl Friedberg, who himself had studied with Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms.<ref>{{citation |url= https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/24/arts/william-masselos-is-dead-at-72-a-pianist-who-loved-diversity.html|title= William Masselos Is Dead at 72; A Pianist Who Loved Diversity|newspaper= The New York Times|date= 24 October 1992|access-date=3 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|quote= Only five of Clara Schumann's pupils left recordings: ……and Carl Friedberg, later an important professor at the Juilliard School and probably the finest artist of the group.|title= CLARA SCHUMANN AND HER PUPILS|newspaper=New York Times|date= 26 April 1987|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/26/arts/clara-schumann-and-her-pupils.html |access-date=5 June 2019|last1= Page|first1= Tim}}</ref>
In 1970, he was a student at the Juilliard School of Music in New York.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|date=1970-06-24|title=2 Pianists Share Top Prize In Tchaikovsky Competition|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/06/24/archives/2-pianists-share-top-prize-in-tchaikovsky-competition.html|access-date=2020-07-01|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
==Career== Gutiérrez's performance career spans over four decades.<ref>{{cite news|quote=His virtuosity is of the kind of which legends are made. ... he could become one of the very great pianists of the century.|last=Chissell|first=Joan |title= Horacio Gutierrez Queen Elizabeth Hall|newspaper=Times of London |date=25 November 1974}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Schonberg|first=Harold C.|title=The Great Pianists: From Mozart to the Present|url=https://archive.org/details/greatpianists00scho|url-access=registration|publisher=Simon & Schuster|location=New York|year=1987}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|quote= Gutiérrez has matured into a truly great pianist, one with a mastery of architecture, whose long-lauded technical prowess serves a penetrating musical intelligence. |last=Keller|first=Johanna|title= Gutiérrez, Milanov dazzle Chautauqua audience |url= http://chqdaily.com/2015/08/22/review-gutierrez-milanov-dazzle-chautauqua-audience/ |access-date=24 August 2015|newspaper=The Chautauquan Daily|date=22 August 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Mueller|first=Alberto|title=El Mejor Pianista del Mundo|work=Diario de las Americas|date=20 October 2007}}</ref> He was first seen on American television in 1966, on one of the ''Young People's Concerts'' with Leonard Bernstein, playing "The Great Gate of Kiev" from ''Pictures at an Exhibition'', by Modest Mussorgsky.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Leonard Bernstein Collection ca,1920-1989, Young People's Concerts Scripts: Young Performers: Pictures At An Exhibition The Library of Congress, Image |url=http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=lbcoll&fileName=lbypc/0382/0382.db&recNum=29&itemLink=D?lbcoll:3:./temp/~ammem_IglR::|access-date=12 November 2011}}</ref>
On August 23, 1970, Gutiérrez made his debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta in Rachmaninoff's 3rd Piano Concerto. Martin Bernheimer, music critic with the Los Angeles Times, described his first appearance with the orchestra as "spectacular".<ref>{{cite news|quote=His name is Horacio Gutiérrez. You won’t forget it! ..... Actually, spectacular covers only one facet of his performance.|last=Bernheimer|first=Martin|title=Gutiérrez makes L.A. Debut|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=24 August 1970}}</ref>
He was M.D. Anderson Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of Houston from 1996 to 2003.<ref>M.D. Anderson Distinguished Professor of Music, {{cite news|url=http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=1996_1350103|last=Ward|first=Charles|title=Pianist Gets UH Post|newspaper=Houston Chronicle|date=26 June 1996|access-date=16 July 2011}}</ref><ref>{{citation|url=http://www.uh.edu/graduate-catalog/archive/2003/las/musi_faculty.html|title=University of Houston faculty |access-date=2 October 2013}}</ref> He is currently teaching at Manhattan School of Music.<ref>{{citation |url= https://www.msmnyc.edu/faculty/horacio-gutierrez/|title=Manhattan School of Music |access-date=30 May 2014}}</ref>
Gutiérrez is best known for his interpretation of the Romantic repertoire.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.cleveland.com/musicdance/2011/04/faces_new_and_familiar_produce.html|title= Faces new and familiar produce dynamic Cleveland Orchestra program |first=Zachary |last=Lewis|date=April 2011|access-date=10 June 2019|website=Cleveland.com}}</ref> He has been commented for performances of the Classical style in music of composers such as Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms.<ref>{{cite news|quote=…was a model of how intimacy can, through technique and musical intelligence, be translated for the benefit of large audiences in big halls.|last=Holland|first=Bernard|title=Classical Music in Review|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/10/arts/classical-music-in-review-193092.html|access-date=4 July 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date=10 November 1992}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|quote=Cuban pianist Horacio Gutiérrez realized all the regal splendor of the opening allegro and the pearly romance of the slow movement.|last=Kaptainis|first=Arthur|title=Great Vibrations Under This Baton|newspaper=The Montreal Gazette|date=28 April 2002}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|quote=From his eloquently ruminative turn through the concerto's solo opening phrase, Gutierrez displayed an unfailing sensibility for the psychological sunlight and shadows that flicker in this music's every facet.|last=Johnson|first=Lawrence B.|title=Detroit Symphony ends the season with a flourish|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?s_site=detnews&f_site=detnews&f_sitename=Detroit+News%2C+The+%28MI%29&p_theme=gannett&p_product=DTNB&p_action=search&p_field_base-0=&Search=Search&p_perpage=10&p_maxdocs=200&p_queryname=700&s_search_type=keyword&p_sort=YMD_date%3AD&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date%3AB%2CE&p_text_date-0=&p_text_base-0=Detroit+Symphony+ends+the+season+with+a+flourish&as_qdr=all&cx=005007237836807668232%3Auux4ksdlbta|access-date=27 September 2013|newspaper=The Detroit News|date=5 June 1999}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/22/arts/music-review-framing-flights-of-fantasy-with-the-sonata-s-formality.html |title= MUSIC REVIEW; Framing Flights of Fantasy With the Sonata's Formality |first=Allan|last=Kozinn|date=22 April 1999|access-date=10 June 2019|website=The New York Times}}</ref>
Gutiérrez is a strong champion of contemporary American composers. He has performed works by William Schuman, André Previn and George Perle. His recording "George Perle: A Retrospective" was named one of the ten best recordings of 2006 by ''The New Yorker''.<ref>Platt, Russell, Classical Notes Best Of 2006, ''The New Yorker'', January 15, 2007</ref> Perle dedicated Nine Bagatelles to Gutiérrez.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.georgeperle.net/events.html |title=George Perle A Life in Music |quote=Completed in 1999 and dedicated to Horacio Gutiérrez |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723134656/http://www.georgeperle.net/events.html |archive-date=2011-07-23 }}</ref>
==Recordings== He has recorded for EMI, Telarc and Chandos Records.<ref>{{citation|url= https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/horacio-gutierrez-piano/|title=Philadelphia Chamber Music Society Horacio Gutierrez|access-date=29 September 2018}}</ref>
Gutiérrez's recordings include: *Prokofiev's Concertos No. 2 and 3 with Neeme Järvi and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. The recording has been acclaimed since its initial release in 1990. Reissued as part of Prokofiev The Piano Concertos in 2009, it was ''Gramophone'''s Editor's Choice in September (2009).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/gramophone.php?year=2009&issue=09|title=Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice September 2009}}</ref> Bryce Morrison wrote in Gramophone Magazine, ''"...Gutiérrez unleashes some of the most thrilling virtuosity on record, storming the Second Concerto's first movement development/cadenza in a manner that will make lesser pianists tremble."''<ref>{{cite web|quote= … Gutierrez unleashes some of the most thrilling virtuosity on record, storming the Second Concerto’s first movement development/cadenza in a manner that will make lesser pianists tremble. He is no less stunning in the less obviously demanding Third Concerto where once again his ebullience is complemented by flawless technique and musicianship..No recorded collection of the complete concertos, whether deleted or available, comes within distance of this.|last=Morrison|first=Bryce|title=Gramophone|date=September 2009|url=https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/prokofiev-piano-concertos-nos-1-5|access-date=17 July 2011}}</ref> *Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 with André Previn and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra *Brahms Piano Concerto No.2 with André Previn and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra *Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 and Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini with David Zinman and the Baltimore Symphony. *Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 and Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1 with Andre Previn and the London Symphony Orchestra.
==Television== * BBC "Previn Music Nights" with the London Symphony, (1975) * PBS Series: "Previn and the Pittsburgh," (1976)<ref name="PIttRadio"/> * PBS Series: "Previn and the Pittsburgh," (1982)<ref name="PIttRadio">Pittsburgh Symphony Radio Interview {{citation |url= https://www.wqed.org/fm/podcasts/thesymphony/pianist-horacio-gutierrez/|title=Pittsburgh Symphony Radio Pianist Horacio Gutierrez - QWOED|access-date=29 September 2018}}</ref> * PBS Series: Live from Lincoln Center, "''Mostly Mozart Festival''," (1985)<ref>{{citation|title=Live from Lincoln Center, Mostly Mozart Festival|url=http://new.lincolncenter.org/live/index.php/lflc-past-telecasts-81-85|access-date=11 November 2011|archive-date=7 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007083309/http://new.lincolncenter.org/live/index.php/lflc-past-telecasts-81-85|url-status=dead}}</ref> * PBS Series: Live from Lincoln Center, "''Chamber Music Society with Irene Worth and Horacio Gutierrez,''" (1986)<ref>{{citation |title=PBS Series:Live from Lincoln Center "Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center," |url=http://new.lincolncenter.org/live/index.php/lflc-past-telecasts-86-90 |date=January 12, 1986 |access-date=12 November 2011 |archive-date=7 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007083257/http://new.lincolncenter.org/live/index.php/lflc-past-telecasts-86-90 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, (1985), (1986) (Three appearances)
==Awards== He won the silver medal and was the top American prize-winner at 21 years of age in the 1970 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, Soviet Union.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=92NTAAAAYAAJ|title=Performing Arts|date=1972|publisher=Performing Arts.|volume=6|pages=36|language=en|quote=HORACIO GUTIERREZ achieved worldwide recognition in 1970 as the top American prize-winner in Moscow's International Tchaikovsky Competition.|issue=1}}</ref> and was soon presented in major world-wide concert venues by Sol Hurok's management.{{Citation needed|date=July 2020}}
In 1982, he was awarded the Avery Fisher Prize in recognition of his musical achievements.<ref>Avery Fisher Artist Program {{cite web|url=http://new.lincolncenter.org/live/index.php/prize-recipients|title=Avery Fisher Artist Program (Avery Fisher Prize Recipient)|access-date=2011-06-26|archive-date=2012-02-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224230314/http://new.lincolncenter.org/live/index.php/prize-recipients|url-status=dead}}(1982)</ref> He won an Emmy Award for his fourth appearance with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Krafft|first1=Rebecca|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f1idRg3iNb0C&pg=PA210|title=The Arts on Television, 1976-1990: Fifteen Years of Cultural Programming|last2=O'Doherty|first2=Brian|date=1991|publisher=Media Arts: Film/Radio/Television Program, National Endowment for the Arts|isbn=9780160359262|pages=210|language=en}}</ref>
== Reception == After his debut recital in London, Joan Chissell, music critic with ''The Times'' (London) wrote, ''His virtuosity is of the kind of which legends are made''.<ref>{{cite news|last=Chissell|first=Joan|date=25 November 1974|title=Horacio Gutierrez Queen Elizabeth Hall|newspaper=Times of London|quote=His virtuosity is of the kind of which legends are made. ... he could become one of the very great pianists of the century.}}</ref>
==Personal life== He currently lives and works in the United States. He met his wife, pianist Patricia Asher, while she was studying with William Masselos and Adele Marcus at the Juilliard School. Gutiérrez suffers from bursitis and a chronic back injury.<ref>{{cite news|last=MacMillan|first=Kyle|title=Last-minute pianist was key to fine CSO performance Read more: Last-minute pianist was key to fine CSO performance|url=http://www.denverpost.com/music/ci_16671148|access-date=21 November 2010|newspaper=The Denver Post|date=21 November 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|quote=Because of a back injury, the pianist Horacio Gutierrez has canceled his appearances with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra tonight and tomorrow at 8 P.M. at Avery Fisher Hall.|title=Horacio Gutierrez Cancels|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/10/arts/horacio-gutierrez-cancels.html|access-date=21 November 2010|newspaper=New York Times|date=10 August 1993}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Gutierrez Recital Canceled|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/17/arts/gutierrez-recital-canceled.html|access-date=21 November 2010|newspaper=New York Times|date=17 April 1990|quote=The pianist Horacio Gutierrez has canceled his Carnegie Hall recital tomorrow because of bursitis.}}</ref>
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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20131110165003/http://www.cramermarderartists.com/gutierrez.htm Bio Artists ]
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