Christopher Guzman – 2012

Pianist Christopher Guzman has entertained audiences throughout North America, Europe and Asia. A prizewinner in many international competitions, including the Walter M. Naumburg Competition , the Seoul International Music Competition, the Isang Yun Competition of South Korea and the first prize of the 10th international Piano Competition of Orléans and 4 other prizes: Sacem, Académie des Beaux-Arts, André Jolivet and Baudin-Chateauneuf prizes in March 2012. He has performed as soloist with many large ensembles, including the San Antonio Symphony, the Fort Worth Symphony, the Corpus Christi Symphony and The EOS Orchestra of New York City. He has performed concerti with the Juilliard Orchestra in Alice Tully Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, and in Spoleto, Italy during the orchestra’s first summer residency at the 2003 Festival Dei Due Mondi. Mr. Guzman has appeared in recital in such varied venues as Carnegie’s Weill Hall, Boston’s Jordan Hall, and Spoleto’s Teatro Caio Melisso.
An avid chamber musician, Mr. Guzman has performed in such venues as Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, Leipzig’s Gewandhaus, the Kennedy Center, San Francisco Performances, the Vancouver Recital Series and others. He performs regularly with some of the world’s most exciting soloist and with members of major symphony orchestras; his recital with violinist Ilya Gringolts on National Public Radio’s Saint Paul Sunday continues to broadcast across the United States and online. Mr. Guzman also frequently collaborates with the Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston, recipients of the 2007 CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming.
Of special interest to Mr. Guzman is music of our time. He has collaborated with one of the nation’s preeminent contemporary chamber ensembles, Speculum Musicae, and numerous times with the New Juilliard Ensemble, including tours of the U.S. and France. The New York Times hailed his “coiled, explosive playing” of works by Christopher Theofanidis and Joseph Pereira at New York’s Society for Ethical Culture in 2002. He is a member of Second Instrumental Unit, a provocative new music ensemble based in the Northeast, and has participated in world premieres by such composers as Donald Martino, Bernd Franke and Paul Schoenfield.
A Texas native, Christopher Guzman began studying piano at age nine and violoncello two years later. He has studied at the University of Texas at Austin, New England Conservatory, and at the Juilliard School.

Awards :

• First Prize Special Distinction “Blanche Selva”
• Orléans Conservatory Students Prize with the support of the Baudin Châteauneuf Society
• Special Distinction Prize “André Jolivet” 
• Academy of Fine Arts Prize
• SACEM Prize