Jorge Caballero (Peru) Saturday, September 28, 2024

Jorge Caballero (Peru)
Saturday, September 28, 2024
Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall, Benaroya, 7:30 PM

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In the span of a decades-long career, Peruvian born guitarist and composer Jorge Caballero has accrued wide recognition as one of the most important guitarists in history, being the recipient of several international awards, and performing in recitals, chamber music and as a soloist around the world. Critics from international newspapers and guitar publications have praised Mr. Caballero’s depth of musicality, as well as his technical mastery when tackling the unique difficulties of his concert repertoire. Aside from the standard guitar literature he performs, which spans centuries of music from the Renaissance until the present, Mr. Caballero is notorious for adapting and performing masterworks originally written for piano or orchestra, such as Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, Dvorak’s New World Symphony, Debussy’s Children’s Corner Suite and Alban Berg’s Piano Sonata Op. 1, and others. 1996, at the age of 19, he earned First Prize at the Walter W. Naumburg International Competition in New York City, a unique award for musicians often compared to the Pulitzer Prize. To this day, he is the youngest musician and only guitarist to have ever received this award. As of 2021, Mr. Caballero has been appointed to the Guitar Faculty at the University of Toronto in Canada. He is also part-time faculty at Kean State University in the United States, and Honorary Professor at the National University of Music in Lima, Peru.

“a masterful guitarist . . . deft, powerful technique.” – The New York Times