Simón Gollo is recognized as a multifaceted and charismatic musician who enjoys a successful international career as a chamber musician, pedagogue, soloist, and conductor. He is also a recording artist for the international recording label IBS Classical, and is represented, alongside the Reverón Piano Trio, by HALAC Artists and Meluk Kultur Management). Simón Gollo has appeared on countless stages across Europe, Asia, and the American continent from Canada to Chile. His long career has led him to perform at prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall (New York), Cadogan Hall (London)…
SIMON GOLLO
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Simón Gollo’s extraordinary journey as an artistic director began at just 20, when he founded Venezuela’s premier chamber music festival, the Festival y Academia del Nuevo Mundo, which he led from 2000 to 2012. He then directed the Aruba Music Festival for five editions before taking on the role of Artistic Director at the New England Music Camp at the Snow Pond Center for the Arts in the United States. At all these festivals and camps, Simón Gollo had the privilege of hosting illustrious figures such as the Borodin Quartet, Benjamin Zander, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Jean-Pierre Wallez, the Cuarteto Latinoamericano, Pacho Flores, Gabriela Montero, Edicson Ruiz, Jeffrey Biegel, and many other prominent names in the international music scene.
NEWS
Reverón Piano Trio
(El Observador:
The Reverón Piano Trio offered a concert that captivated the audience with a repertoire full of contrasts and sensitivity. The evening ranged from the delicate romantic melodies of Fanny Mendelssohn to the contemporary and folkloric strength of Gabriela Lena Frank, highlighting her work Canto a María Angola, which evokes the resounding of one of the largest bells in South America through the piano.
REVERON PIANO TRIO
Villa-Lobos / Turina / Ponce
The Reverón Piano Trio’s main goal is to introduce audiences to underrepresented music from Latin America alongside contemporary and standard repertoire. These artists are active promoters of Latin American music through their work as performing artists, scholars and entrepreneurs, and they have devoted their careers to the discovery, cataloging, performance, editing, and recording of this rich repertoire.
Comments & Reviews
The only other recording with which I am able to make a comparison is on Hyperion (CDA66907) with Pascal Devoyan with the Chilingirian Quartet. This has the advantage of a major coupling, the Piano Quartet in A major, but they lack the sensitivity and beauty of phrasing heard on this new disc. Leer más: Ernest CHAUSSON (1855-1899)
El violinista venezolano Simón Gollo y el pianista estadounidense John Novacek son los solistas en el Concierto para violín, piano y cuarteto de cuerda Op.21, obra a la que sólo su poco frecuente instrumentación ha limitado su difusión en concierto, ya que se trata de una composición de una belleza deslumbrante, Leer más: Chausson eterno
Gollo, Novacek y el cuarteto dan sensación de solistas con orquesta, porque hay en esta obra una dimensión más allá de lo camerístico, y tal es el logro de quienes aciertan con su interpretación.
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