Ana María Otamendi – Learning and the Brain: Effective Practicing Strategies for Musicians
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A one-hour journey through the latest neurological discoveries related to cognitive science, and their immediate application into effective learning and practicing strategies for music students.
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Tuesday, November 16, 2021, 10:30am
Yamaha Artist Services
689 5th Ave # 3, New York, NY 10022
[/vc_headings][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”38px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Since her orchestral debut at age twelve, Venezuelan pianist Ana María Otamendi has performed as a soloist, collaborative pianist, and conductor with renowned orchestras and at important venues such as Chicago Symphony Hall, Spivey Hall, Teatro Teresa Carreño (Caracas, Venezuela), Salzburg Domesaal, Megaron Mousikis Concert Hall (Athens), Parco de la musica (Rome), Teatro Arcimboldi (Milano), Teatro Odeum (Patras), as well as many other venues in Austria, Panama, Brazil, Venezuela, the United States, Spain, Italy, and Greece. She has appeared in hundreds of collaborative performances with renowned artists such as Donald Sinta, Michelle DeYoung, Paul Groves, Ana María Martinez, Alexis Cárdenas, members of the Chicago Lyric Opera Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Houston Grand Opera Orchestra, Pittsburgh Orchestra, Dallas Symphony, Dallas Opera Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony, and many more.
After finishing her two-year tenure as Studio Artist at the prestigious Houston Grand Opera Studio, as well as the Merola Opera Program of the San Francisco Opera, she was appointed as Head Vocal Coach of the Moores Opera Center at the University of Houston. Currently, she is the Janice Harvey Pellar Assistant Professor of Collaborative Piano at Louisiana State University, where she heads the collaborative piano program. She is the Artistic Director of the Collaborative Piano Institute, an intensive three-week summer program devoted to collaborative pianists, that features stellar faculty including Martin Katz, Rita Sloan, Kathleen Kelly, Marie-France Lefebvre, Howard Watkins, and many more. She is also pianist and founding member of the Reverón Piano Trio, a Venezuelan ensemble devoted to the standard, modern, and Latin American piano trio repertoire, managed in the United States by Meluk Kulturmanagement and in Latin America and Europe in society Halac Artists – Meluk Kulturmanagement. She was Head Coach and Conductor for the Franco-American Vocal Academy in France and Salzburg (FAVA) during several summers, where she conducted works like Don Giovanni and La Belle Helène, and coached singers in their roles and in art song.
She is a regular guest artist, guest speaker, and teacher at different institutions in the United States and abroad such as Yale University, Wolftrap Opera, the University of Michigan, University of Cambridge, Universidade de Sao Paulo and Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil), Mahidol University (Thailand), University of Minnesota, University of Texas at Austin, the University of South Carolina, and many more. Ana María holds a Master’s degree in piano performance from the University of Wisconsin, an Artist Certificate from the University of South Carolina where she worked with the renowned pianist Marina Lomazov, and a Doctorate in Collaborative Piano from the University of Michigan, where she studied with world-class collaborative pianist Martin Katz. In 2021 she won the Emerging Artist Award from the University of Michigan, as an artist who has greatly contributed to the profession, as well as the Rising Faculty Award from Louisiana State University.
She was principal keyboard of the Venezuelan Symphony Orchestra (2007–08) as well as Assistant Professor at the University of Musical Studies in Caracas. Besides her musical training, Ana María is fluent in English, Spanish, French, and Italian, and also a Geophysical Engineer. Her thesis was published in the prestigious journal Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]