Concerto by Jorge Juarez Alvarez, piano. Music by G. Ricordi, F. Chopin, and M. Ponce.

In collaboration with the PhD program “Italian Piano Music”, Conservatory of Rovigo

Programme

Despite the geographical and temporal distance between Ricordi, Ponce, and Chopin, all three composers, from different backgrounds, shared a similar aesthetic sensitivity: a taste for short forms and folk dances, a preference for salons rather than large concert halls, and finally the romantic language.
Giulio Ricordi
From “Impressions de Route”:
– Romance Poudrèe
Grandmother’s Tale. Seven characteristic pieces for piano:
– Once Upon a Time… Prelude
– The Lake! Barcarolle
– The Undines. Fantastic Dance
– The Dragon. Tragedy
– Oh Dear Mother. Prayer
– The Fireflies. Scherzo
– Good Night, Children! Epilogue

Tramway Galop

F. Chopin
Posthumous Nocturne in C-sharp minor

– Gavotte
– Concert Etude No. 1 “Tragic Prelude”
– Concert Etude No. 7 “Youth”
– Concert Etude No. 3 “Towards the Summit”

Jorge Juárez is a Mexican pianist who has been living in Italy for more than 10 years. He has
performed concerts in Canada, Colombia, Italy, Spain, Japan, and Mexico.
He graduated from the International Piano Academy of Imola “Incontri col Maestro”, the “B.
Maderna” Conservatory of Cesena, and the National Conservatory of Mexico. His teachers
included Ingrid Fliter, Enrico Pace, Stefano Fiuzzi, Héctor Rojas, Alessandro Deljavan, and
Mauro Minguzzi.
Winner of the “State Youth Award” granted by the Government of the State of Mexico for
artistic merits.
He has participated in several festivals and concert series such as: Concerti della Domenica
of the Angelo Mariani Association, Gioie Musicali International Festival, Concerts at the
Rocca di Dozza, Piano City Milan, Piano City Pordenone, Pianolab Martina Franca, Chamber
Music Series of the National University of Mexico, Chamber Music Festival of the University
of Manizales in Colombia, among others.
At the age of sixteen, he made his debut as a soloist with the Coyoacan Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Enrique Barrios. In 2023, he performed as a soloist with the Mediterranean
Philharmonic Orchestra at the Kursaal Santa Lucia Theater in Bari under the baton of
Giuseppe Monopoli.
Since 2019, he has collaborated with the young Italian composer Graziano Riccardi,
premiering several of his works such as: “Gemstones” for clarinet and piano, “Ave Maria” for
soprano, tenor, and piano, and recently “Re-cuerdo de madre, 13 variations and theme” for
solo piano.
He has attended masterclasses with several teachers including: William Grant Nabore,
Jerome Rose, Jorg Demus, Boris Petrushansky, Irene Veneziano, Alan Weiss, Andrea
Bonatta, Michelle Berof, Janina Fialkowska, among others. For one year he studied
Fortepiano at the International Piano Academy of Imola at the Bartolomeo Cristofori
Academy in Florence under the guidance of Stefano Fiuzzi.
Since 2025, he has been a PhD candidate in Italian Piano Music at the “F. Venezze”
Conservatory of Rovigo with a research project on the piano works of Giulio Ricordi.
He teaches piano at the Angelo Masini Institute of Forlì and at the Nuova Scuola di Musica
Vassura Baroncini of Imola.