Gabriela Montero

Gabriela Montero’s visionary interpretations and unique compositional gifts have garnered her critical acclaim and a devoted following on the world stage. Anthony Tommasini remarked in The New York Times that “Montero’s playing had everything: crackling rhythmic brio, subtle shadings, steely power…soulful lyricism…unsentimental expressivity.”

Montero’s 2023–2024 season will feature performances of her own Latin Concerto on an extensive U.S. tour with Mexico City’s Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería and Carlos Miguel Prieto, as well as with the New World Symphony, Polish National Radio Symphony, Antwerp Symphony, and the NAC Orchestra, the latter with which she continues a flourishing four-year Creative Partnership through 2025.

Celebrated for her exceptional musicality and ability to improvise, Montero has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra. A graduate and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in London, she is also a frequent recitalist and chamber musician, having given concerts at such distinguished venues as the Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, Vienna Konzerthaus, Sydney Opera House, and the National Concert Hall in Taipei.

An award-winning and bestselling recording artist, her most recent album, released on the Orchid Classics label, features her own Latin Concerto and Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major, recorded with the Orchestra of the Americas in Frutillar, Chile. Montero made her formal debut as a composer with Ex Patria, a tone poem designed to illustrate and protest Venezuela’s descent into lawlessness, corruption, and violence.

Winner of the 4th International Beethoven Award, Montero is a committed advocate for human rights, whose voice regularly reaches beyond the concert hall. She was also awarded the 2012 Rockefeller Award for her contribution to the arts and was a featured performer at Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential Inauguration.