RUBEN PARDO
Pianist, researcher and teacher
Chamber music
In the duo format for two pianos, highlights the assembly of the Sonata for two pianos and percussion by Belá Bartók and the Spanish Rhapsody by M. Ravel in 2012, the assembly of the Carnaval de los Animales by C. Saint-Saens, the Colloquium between two pianos, by the Colombian composer Amparo Ángel in 2013, and the Kursk Songs by G. Sviridov, the latter with the pianist Sergei Sichkov in 2016 (premiere in Colombia).
As a member of the Numen Duo, he has worked to rediscover and position the repertoire for four-handed piano within the Colombian musical context.
The duo received classes with teachers Harold Martina, Abraham Abreu, Stephen Prutsman, Jesús Pinzón Urrea, Marjorie Tanaka, María Lourdes and Lluis Pérez Molina and the Grau-Schumacher duo. He also attended master classes with teachers Steven Harlos and Adam Wodnicki at the University of North Texas and with teacher José Feghali at Texas Christian University.
They were winners of the call for the Young Interpreters of the Banco de la República in 2007, 2008 and 2009 and of the Academic Music category of the District Stimulus Program of the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra in 2009.
They were selected to participate in the 2010 Texas Piano Festival where they had the opportunity to play at the Pepsico Recital Hall at the Texas Christian University and were also invited to perform a concert at the Recital Hall at the University of North Texas.
They participated with the didactic project "Our music, our city" in the Latin American Forum of Music Education FLADEM held in the concert hall of Compensar in 2007 and as speakers in the First Meeting of Research in Music organized by the Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia.
In 2012 they were selected to participate in Compensar's “Itinerant Music” program and were also chosen as winners of the Musical Research and Editing Grant within the National Call for Stimuli of the Ministry of Culture, recording the compact disc “Colombian Music for Piano four hands ”.