Claudia Calderon

Colombian pianist and composer

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Claudia Calderon
Born	1959 Palmira, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
Occupation	Musician
Instrument	Piano

Musical artist

Claudia Calderon is a Colombian pianist and composer who was born in Palmira, Valle del Cauca, Colombia in 1959 and moved to Venezuela in 1987.^[1]

Biography

After studying in Cali and Bogotá, Calderon went to Europe, graduating from the Musikhochschule in Hannover, Germany,^[2] and attending courses in Italy supervised by György Sándor. On her return to Venezuela she became a professor at the Simón Bolívar Conservatory and at the Instituto Universitario de Estudios Musicales in Caracas.^[3]

She has recorded three albums of her own compositions based on traditional music of Venezuela and Colombia, as well as a disc of solo piano works of the Colombian composer Pedro Morales Pino.^[3]

Discography

El piano llanero (Fundación Bigott, 2001)
Piano de Pedro Morales Pino (Banco de la República, 2004)
El piano llanero II (Fundación Bigott, 2007)
Piano xarocho (Fundación Arpamerica, 2011)

References

^ "Artist Profiles: Claudia Calderón". World Music Central.org. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
^ Garay, Juan Carlos (7 September 2011). "Llanero hasta la raíz". Semana (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 February 2019.
^ ^a ^b Saucedo Estrada, Alán Saúl (2014). The Influence of Carlos Prieto on Contemporary Cello Music. University Press of America. p. 84. ISBN 978-0-7618-6326-7.