Artificioso. in Addition, He Just Recently Received The Merit Award at The Tribeca New Music Young

Spanish composer and pianist, born in Sagunto, on the 26th of May 1996.
He begins his pianistic

training at the age of three, with professor Jesús García. At age thirteen he continues his studies with
Spanish pianist Cristina Casale, and with French pianist Emmanuel Ferrer-Laloë, professor at
Musikene Conservatory. In May 2018, Jorge completes his Bachelors of Music, graduating with
honors with a double-major in composition and piano, and with a merit scholarship from Mannes
School of Music – The New School, in New York City, having studied with the American composer
Lowell Liebermann, and Russian pianist Irina Morozova.
In April 2018, Jorge was awarded one of the most prestigious scholarships in Spain: the
Excellence Scholarship of the “Fundación Rafael del Pino,” to pursue his double-master in Mannes
School of Music, New York, with Liebermann and Morozova. He was also awarded with a
“President Scholarship” from Mannes for his double-master in composition and piano. In 2020 he
graduates from his double master in composition and piano having been granted the Steinway Award,
which is given to pianists that demonstrate artistic excellence.
Recently he has been awarded with the 1st Prize at the Aglaia Music Awards, in Madrid, Spain,
for his work Preludes for Piano. He has also been awarded the 2nd Prize at the Metropolitan Youth
Orchestra Emerging Composers Competition in New York, for his orchestral piece Scherzo
Artificioso. In addition, he just recently received the Merit Award at the Tribeca New Music Young
Composer Competition in New York, for his work 5 Preludes for Piano.
In June 2020, Jorge Tabarés releases his debut album with the recording label KNS Classical.
The CD is titled “Tribute to Alicia”, in homage to the great Spanish pianist Alicia de Larrocha, and it
includes some of her own compositions from her collection “Sins of Youth.” Later on that year the
CD was broadcasted on National Spanish Radio, RNE – Radio Clásica. Recently the CD has
received 4 awards at the Music and Stars Awards: Gold Star for Best Piano Solo CD, Gold Star for
Best CD Concept, Gold Star for Best Sound Editing, and Silver Star for Best Cover.
Jorge Tabarés has been selected in several occasions by the music critic Robert Sherman to be
broadcasted on WQXR in New York, for "The McGraw Hill Financial Young Artist Showcase" in
2015, 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2020. In spring 2019, Jorge was selected as invited artist to be
broadcasted in WQXR where he performed an entire program of Spanish music in homage to the
great pianist Alicia de Larrocha. The program included works by Alicia de Larrocha herself, which
were also radio premieres in the United States. This homage was curated by Alicia Torra de
Larrocha, (De Larrocha’s daughter), and Robert Sherman, and the project was the genesis of his
subsequent album debut.
Stands out his participation as composer and pianist in the I Iturbi Festival 2020, for which he has
done a 10 piano arrangement of 6 orchestral works by Bernstein, Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, Liszt,
and Falla. He performed these arrangements together with 9 other pianists at the inaugural concert of
the Festival. Also stands out his solo recital in the inaugural concert of the XXXVII edition of the
Sagunt a Escena Festival, in which apart from offering a solo piano program, he also composed and
premiered his Song Cycle on Poems by Rubén Darío for the occasion. He has also participated as an
invited solo artist to perform in numerous other Festivals, such as the Serenates Festival 2020, Porto
PianoFest 2020, or the XX edition of the “Festival de Música Sant Pere de Rodes.”
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As a soloist, stands out his debut in the Palau de la Música Catalana, in September 2020, as part
of the El Primer Palau concert series, in which he performed his own compositions among other
pieces. As an orchestral soloist, stands out his debut with the Philharmonic Orchestra of the
University of Valencia, with conductor Beatriz Fernández, at the Iturbi Hall of the Palau de la
Música de Valencia, Mozart Hall of the Auditorio de Zaragoza, and Teatro Serrano de Gandía. He
has also performed in different Spanish cities such as Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Castellón,
Zaragoza, Almería, Murcia, Oviedo, Gijón, Palma de Mallorca, Gandía, and in an international level
in France, Italy, Portugal, England, Germany, Canada and the United States.
As a composer, stands out the premiere in 2018, of his Sonata for two Pianos and Percussion at
the Percufest Festival, Valencia, Spain, by the pianists Josu de Solaun Soto and Anna Petrova, and
the percussionists of the Tenerife and Valencia Philharmonic Orchestras, Paco Diaz and Josep Furió.
This work was commissioned by Percufest itself. Also stands out the premiere of his Prelude No.4,
from his collection 5 Preludes for Piano, performed by himself at the Mozart Hall of the Auditorio
de Zaragoza in 2019. In 2018, Jorge Tabarés wrote his Trio for Strings for the “European Literature
Night” which was premiered at the Bohemian National Hall, NYC. Such event was a collaboration
between the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations and Mannes School of Music.
Also stands out the recent premiere of his Hispanic Dances for Violin and Piano, in December 2020,
at the Eutherpe Foundation in León, Spain. He dedicated the work to this same Foundation. In
addition to this, the Hispanic Dances were recently broadcasted on National Spanish Radio, RNE –
Radio Clásica. Other of his works for chamber ensembles and for piano have been performed by
musicians of international acclaim, in numerous cities of Spain, such as Madrid, Barcelona,
Valencia, León, Zaragoza and Murcia, and in an international level, in different recital halls of the
United States.
He has also been awarded top prizes in numerous other international competitions, such as,
Metropolitan International Piano Competition, New York City, Rondo Forma Competition, New
York City, Cremona International Competition for Piano, Italy, where he was also awarded the
Special Prize to the best sonata, XVII International Piano Competition Santa Cecilia, Portugal, where
he was also awarded the Special Prize from KNS Classical to record and publish several CDs,
Concurso Ibérico de Piano do Alto Minho, Portugal, International Piano Competition Le Mesnil des
Arts, France. He was also awarded the EAMA/Florence Gould Foundation Michael Iovenko Award
to participate in the EAMA International Music Festival, in Paris, France, 2018.
As a composer, he has received classes and advice from Melinda Wagner, Chen Yi, George
Tsontakis, David Ludwig, Christopher Dobrian, Reiko Fueting, Amy Beth Kirsten, Donald Crockett,
David Tcimpidis, Narcis Bonet, Philip Lasser and Michel Merlet. As a pianist he has received classes
and advice from Elena Dyátlova, Anya Alexeyev, Marnie Van Weelden, John Salmon, Margarita
Höhenrieder, Dominique Weber, Claudio Martínez-Mehner, José Ramón Méndez, James Giles,
Julian Martin, Ilya Itín, Jue Wang, Josu de Solaun, Miguel Ituarte, André-Michel Schub, Oleg
Marshev, Joaquín Soriano, Uta Weyand, Justas Dvarionas, Jay Gottlieb, Jun Kanno, Erik T.
Tawaststjerna, and Friedemann Rieger.
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