Paulina Zamora - Piano
A native of Antofagasta, Chile, pianist Paulina Zamora was educated at the University of Chile, the Eastman School of Music, and Indiana University. Her main teachers have included Mercedes Veglia, Rebecca Penneys, Gyorgy Sebok and Janos Starker. Her solo, concerto and chamber music appearances have taken Paulina throughout the Americas, Europe and the Middle East. A recipient of first prizes in the Primer Concurso Latinoamericano in Chile, the Indianapolis Matinee Musicale and the Chautauqua Piano Competition, Paulina was also awarded the prestigious Performer's Certificate of the Eastman School of Music. She has appeared in festivals such as the Ernen Musikdorf and Lausanne Music Festival in Switzerland, the Banff Music Festival in Canada and the Chautauqua Music Festival in New York. She has performed live on National Public Radio and the Swiss-French Radio. She is a sought after collaborative pianist and has concertized with distinguished cellist Janos Starker, with violinists Corey Cerovsek and Annette-Barbara Vogel, with violist Atar Arad, with pianists Rebecca Penneys and John Milbauer, with tenor Alan Bennett and flutist Jacques Zoon, among others. Paulina's recordings include two CDs of chamber†works with the Felici PianoTrio; a solo CD†with works of Twentieth-Century Latin American Composers, sponsored by Indiana University; a chamber CD of American composers†with the Montecino Trio, released by Eroica Classical Recordings. Her two most recent CDs, released by Eroica Classical Recordings are ‘Richter 6.2’, with pianist John Milbauer and ‘Beethoven Plus’ with violinist Annette-Barbara Vogel.†She taught at the Valencia Conservatory in Spain and was Associate Professor of Piano and Theory at EAFIT University in MedellÌn, Colombia, from 1999 to 2001. Beginning September of 2001 through August of 2005, she was a member of the Felici Piano Trio in residence in Mammoth Lakes, California, an integral part of Chamber Music Unbound, a non-profit organization. At present, Ms. Zamora is professor of Piano and Theory and Coordinator of the Theory Department at the ‘Instituto Profesional Escuela Moderna de M·sica’ in Santiago, Chile.
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