Sergio Tiempo quickly rose to international prominence since making his professional debut at the age of 14 in the 'Great Pianists' series at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw in 1986.
He now appears regularly in recitals and with orchestras in the leading halls of the Americas, Europe and Japan.
Tiempo has performed under the direction of Claudio Abbado, Gustavo Dudamel, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, Leonard Slatkin and Michael Tilson Thomas and worked with orchestras such as Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Houston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Montreal Symphony, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra and the Tokyo Philharmonic. Last season, Tiempo appeared with Gustavo Dudamel on two occasions, first with the Orchestra Sinfonica dell’ Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, and subsequently with the Bamberg Symphoniker.
He plays at various major international music festivals, most recently making his debut at the Salzburg Festival in both concerto and chamber concerts. He has also appeared at the Schleswig-Holstein, Colmar, Verbier and Toulouse Festivals, and last season was invited to the Dias da Musica festival in Lisbon for concerto and recital performances. He has been a guest at the Martha Argerich and Friends Festival in Munich and the Festival Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli in Bergamo and he is a regular guest at the Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano, performing there annually.
Tiempo recently recorded Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit and three Chopin Nocturnes as part of the EMI Classics 'Martha Argerich Presents' series. The recording received the following accolade from Le Monde de la Musique: "Fantastic! That is the word which springs to mind on listening to this passionate recording. I haven't heard a performance of Pictures at an Exhibition as personal, imaginative and exciting as this since Moiseiwitch, Horowitz, Richter, Engerer and Pogorelich..."
Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Tiempo began his piano studies with his mother, Lyl Tiempo, at the age of two years and made his concert debut when he had just turned three. Whilst at the Fondazione per il Pianoforte in Como, Italy, he worked with Dimitri Bashkirov, Fou Tsong, Murray Perahia and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. He has received frequent musical guidance and advice from Martha Argerich, Nelson Freire and Nikita Magaloff.
His awards include the 1986 Alex De Vries Prize of Belgium and the Davidoff 2000 Prize in Germany.
In the current season, Tiempo appears with the Singapore SO, Seoul Philharmonic and the Malmö SO, and will make a recital tour of Korea with Mischa Maisky, as well as giving solo recitals in Washington, Paris, Lugano and at the Chopin Festival in Warsaw.
Future engagements include concerts with the DSO Berlin, Estonian National SO, Scottish CO, Malaysian PO, Singapore SO, Iceland SO, a European and US recital tour with Han-na Chang, and recitals at the Mozartwoche in Salzburg, the Hong Kong Arts Festival, the Flanders Festival in Brussels and London’s Wigmore Hall.
Sergio Tiempo is represented by Jessica Ford at Intermusica, jford@intermusica.co.uk
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