Mauricio Vallina
Cuban pianist
Mauricio Vallina (born 1970 in Havana,) is a Cuban pianist living in Brussels. He has been a top prize-winner of national and international piano competitions. His prizes include Valencia (1994) and Gernika (1996) international piano competitions, and he has also been awarded special prizes for the best performance of Cuban and Spanish Music.
Education and debut
After graduating in Havana, with a "Gold" Diploma (1988), Vallina achieved a solid formation at the Moscow "Tchaikovsky" Conservatory (Master of Fine Arts in 1996), the Madrid Royal Conservatory and the Como International Piano Foundation. His teachers included Roberto Urbay, Henrietta Mirvis, Irina Plotnikova, Joaquin Soriano, Alicia de Larrocha, Dimitri Bashkirov, Fou Ts'ong, Zenaida Manfugás and Martha Argerich.
Vallina's debut performance was at the Zurich Tonhalle in 1998.
Performances
Vallina performed at many international festivals, including the Festival de La Roque-d'Anthéron, the Schleswig-Holstein music festival, the Radio France-Montpellier festival, “Beppu, Argerich‘s meeting point“, Sintra festival, Lugano festival. Many of his concerts have been broadcast on radio or television.
He has performed with leading orchestras. In chamber music he has performed with Polina Leschenko, Gabriela Montero, Nelson Goerner, Karin Lechner, Alexander Mogilevsky, Martha Argerich, Evgeny Brahman, Don-Hyek Lim, Pia Sebastiani, Mirabela Dina, Geza Hosszu-Legocky, Mark Drobinsky, Renaud Capuçon and Gautier Capuçon.
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