JORGE SUAREZ
P I A N I S T
Trio Mexico
"Trio Mexico in Stellar Concert (Royal Oak, Detroit)"
"El Trío México recibió el diploma de honor OEA-CIDEM"
Trio Mexico has been hailed one of the best in the world, earning the Highest Distinction of the Inter-American Music Council and being the first Trio to play in China after its reopening. They have performed over 1000 concerts all throughout the world and recorded for the radios of Europe, Asia and the Americas as well as over 20 recordings (15 CDs).
"Trio Mexico confirmed in the 23rd Berlin Festival its international reputation.", "International Class masters, Sovereign technique." - Berliner Zeitung Am Abend, Berlin
“Bravo Trio Mexico! Three highly skillful musicians. A very good concert! Het Vaderland” - The Hague
“Three splendid artists. Great success.” - Budapest
“The public enjoyed profoundly the rhythmic coordination and instrumental mastery of Trio Mexico.” - Beijing
“Trio Mexico’s concert was one of the most brilliant achievements at the 16th Plovdiv International Festival." - Bulgaria
"Trio Mexico ensemble triumphant."
"The enthusiam of the audience seemed unbounded and there was applause at the end of individual movements. Such enthusiasm on the stage and in the crowd is rearely encountered these days." - National Gallery, Ottawa
He was born in Mexico City. He comes from a family of musicians (his maternal grandfather was the author of the famous "Mixtec Song", his parents were pianists and, of his brothers, Adalberto is a violinist and Francisco is a pianist). He was a pupil of Imre Hartman at the National Conservatory, and later studied cello technique at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in Leningrad. Together with the brothers Manuel and Jorge Suárez (violinist and pianist, respectively), he founded Trio Mexico, a group with which he gave numerous concerts between 1975 and 1979, touring internationally and recording several albums. Leopoldo Téllez has performed as a soloist with important orchestras in Mexico, the United States and Europe. In 1962 he received the Casals Prize awarded by the Juventudes Musicales. He was director of the National Conservatory from 1984 to 1988.
Ignacio Marisal, Cellist
https://www.ignaciomariscal.com/english/
He was born in Monterrey, Mexico, has been member of the Concert Soloists of the Fine Arts Institute of Mexico since 1982, and a member of Trio Mexico from 1982 to 2000. He graduated from the National Conservatory of Mexico and did postgraduate studies at the Sweelink Conservatories of Amsterdam and Utrecht, Netherlands. He was declared a National Youth Award in 1775 and received an Honors Diploma from the Organization of American States as a member of Trio Mexico and Honor of Merit from the United States Congress in 1989. He received a University Merit Medal from the National University of Mexico in 2014. He is a full-time Professor of the Faculty of Music of the National University of Mexico, and many of his students are already prominent members of major chamber and symphonic ensembles or teachers at major music schools.
From right to left
Carlos Prieto (Cellist), Manuel Suarez (Violinist) and Jorge Suarez (Pianist)
Carlos Prieto is a Mexican cellist and writer, born in Mexico City. He has received enthusiastic public acclaim and won excellent reviews for his performances throughout the United States, Europe, Russia and the former Soviet Union, Asia, and Latin America. The New York Times review of his Carnegie Hall debut raved, "Prieto knows no technical limitations and his musical instincts are impeccable."
"Trio Mexico destined to be one of the best in the world."
Henryk Szeryng,
Violinist
Dimitry Markevitch
Dimitry Markevitch (1923–2002) was a Swiss-born American cellist, researcher, teacher, and musicologist. He studied under Gregor Piatigorsky and founded, in 1973, the Institut de Hautes Etudes Musicales (IHEM) in Switzerland. His brother, Igor Markevitch, was an orchestral conductor.
Markevitch rediscovered several important manuscripts, including Westphal and Kellner transcriptions of several Bach Suites, and published his own edition of the Suites, playing all six in recital at Carnegie Hall in New York in 1964. He also unearthed two previously unknown pieces by Ludwig van Beethoven: the Sonata for Violoncello and Piano, Opus 64, and the Kreutzer Sonata, transcribed for cello by Czerny. He contributed to editions of pieces by Mussorgsky, De Falla, Stravinsky, and Shostakovitch and wrote Cello Story, a book on the history and repertoire of the cello.
Jorge Suarez has also performed with famous Musicians such as:
Henryk Szeryng,
Violinist
Ruggiero Ricci,
Violinist
Leonid Kogan,
Violinist
Bruno Giuranna,
Violist
Manuel Suarez,
Violinist
Jorge and Manuel Suarez
Cantante
Maria Luisa Rangel
Jorge Suarez (Pianist) and
Dimitar Furnadjiev (Cellist)
