Ricardo de la Torre
pianist
Past events:
Aug 12, noon. Listen Live at Lunch
summer concert series. First Lutheran Church, Tacoma, WA. Duo Powers-de la Torre. Works by Beethoven and Mendelssohn.
Feb. 26, 8:00 PM. Artist Series. Lagerquist Concert Hall, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA. Recital
with Lark Powers. Works by Couperin, Rameau, Saint-Saëns, Tailleferre, Rieti, Poulenc, Debussy-Ravel, Coral and Lutowslawski.
Livestream: https://www.plu.edu/soac/webcast/
Feb. 16, 5:00 PM. El Arte del Piano concert series. Sala Manuel M. Ponce, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City. Recital with Lark Powers.
Works by Guastavino, Tailleferre, Rieti, Poulenc, Debussy-Ravel, Coral, Campa and Lutowslawski.https://inba.gob.mx/actividad/8223/recital-a-dos-pianos
Jan. 24, 7:30 PM. Jacobsen Series, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA. Recital with Maria Sampen, violin. Works by Beethoven, Shrude and
Yun.
Livestream: https://www.pugetsound.edu/academics/departments-and-programs/undergraduate/music/schneebeck-live/
2019
Oct. 29, 7:30 PM. Quoth the Raven. Debut of the Corvid Ensemble. Fremont Abbey Arts Center, 4272 Fremont Ave North, Seattle, WA. Guest at the debut of
this new Seattle-based chamber group. Saint-Saëns' Danse macabre in a four-hand piano transcription with Lark Powers.
Aug. 28, noon. Listen Live at Lunch
Concert Series, First Lutheran Church, Tacoma, WA. Recital with Maria Sampen and Tim
Christie, violins.
Aug. 21, noon. Listen Live at Lunch
Concert Series, First Lutheran Church, Tacoma, WA. Recital with Soprello: Allison Pohl,
soprano and Alistair MacRae, cello.
July 17, noon. Listen Live at Lunch Concert
Series, First Lutheran Church, Tacoma, WA. Recital with Lark Powers.
June 7, 8 pm. Musikeon, Valencia, Spain. Recital with Lark Powers.
Live webcast: https://www.musikeon.net/viernes-de-musikeon/ and https://www.youtube.com/user/MusikeonMEDIA/
June 3, 7 pm. Instituto Cervantes, Vienna, Austria. Recital with Lark Powers
May 11, 6 pm. First Presbyterian Church, Puyallup, WA. Recital with Lark Powers. Works by Bach, Marianne
Martinez, Schubert, Soler, Guastavino, Ibarra and Montsalvatge.
Apr. 26, 3:40 pm Lagerquist Concert Hall, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA. Duo piano concert with Lark
Powers. Live webcast at: https://www.plu.edu/soac/webcast/
Mar. 28-30 Washington State Music Teachers
Association Mount Rainier Chapter. Visiting Artist for Musical Artistry
Program.
Mar. 22, 11:30 AM, Sonia Vlahcevic Concert Hall, W.E. Singleton Center for the Performing Arts,
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. Recital appearance as part of the Experiencing Villa-Lobos International Festival. Works by Heitor Villa-Lobos. https://arts.vcu.edu/music/experiencing-villa-lobos/festival-schedule/
Feb. 27 and March 1, Kitsap County, WA. Visiting Artist for Washington State Music Teachers Association's Musical Artistry Program.
Feb. 22 and 23, Renton, WA. Visiting Artist for Washington State Music Teachers
Association's Musical Artistry Program.
Jan. 26, Mountainview Highschool, Auburn WA. Adjudicating for the piano contest of
the Green River Music Educator's Association.
Mar. 9, Vancouver, WA. Visiting Artist for Washington State Music Teachers Association's Musical Artistry Program.
2018
Sept. 15, Lagerquist Concert Hall, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA. Duo piano concert
with Lark Powers and violinist Svend Røning. Works by Bach, Campa, Debussy, Bertran and Chabrier.
June 21, 1:30, The Heathman Lodge, Vancouver, WA. Piano
Methods from around the World. Joint presentation with Lark Powers. Washington State and Oregon Music Teachers
Association joint conference.
Jun. 10, 12:00 pm, Anfiteatro Simón Bolívar, Mexico City. Two-piano concert with
Lark Powers and guest violinist Shari Mason. Works by J.S. Bach, Debussy, Moises Bertran, Gustavo E. Campa and Chabrier.
Apr. 21, 5 pm, Schneebeck Concert Hall, University of
Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA. Voice senior and junior joint recital.
Apr. 21, 2 pm, Schneebeck Concert
Hall, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA. Clarinet junior recital.
Apr. 14, Schneebeck Concert
Hall, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, cello junior recital.
Apr. 11, Ellensburg, WA. WSMTA Yakima-Ellensburg chapter. Presentation:
The Pedagogical Works of Enrique Granados.
Mar. 24, Poulsbo, WA. Kitsap Music Teachers Association. Judging for their piano competition
Mar. 14-15, Clarkston, WA/Lewiston, ID. WSMTA Music Artistry Program. Visiting artist for Clarkston-Lewiston
chapter.
Mar. 2, Sammamish, WA. Washington Federation of Music Clubs. Judging for Helen Crowe Snelling Memorial Piano
Competition.
Feb.17, Schneebeck Concert Hall, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA. violin junior recital.
2017
Dec. 5, Broadmoor Hotel, Colorado Springs, CO. Finals of the United States International Duo Piano
Competition. With Lark Powers.
Nov. 3-4, Steinway Piano Gallery, Spokane, WA. Juding for the Spokane Piano Competition. https://spokanepianocompetition.com
Nov. 2, Pacific Lutheran, Department of Music. Judging for the Concerto Competition
Sept. 29, 7:30 pm, Schneebeck Concert Hall, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA. Collage 2017: Faculty/Student Showcase. Streamed
live: https://www.pugetsound.edu/academics/departments-and-programs/undergraduate/music/schneebeck-live/
Jun. 26, 7:30, Washington State University. Performance with Lark Powers, Faculty recital, Summer Keyboard Explorations. https://music.wsu.edu/area-information/keyboard/summer-keyboard-explorations/
Jun. 26, 3:45, Washington State University. Lecture: Effective Practice Strategies. Part of WSU School of Music's Summer Keyboard
Explorations program.
Jun. 23, 9:00 am, Shoreline Community College, Shoreline, WA, Washington State Music Teachers Association Conference.
Lecture: An Examination of Enrique Granados Pedagogical Piano Works on the 150th Anniversary of his Birth.
April 23, 9:00 am, Bryan Hall, WSU, Pullman, WA. Recital with Richard Demy. NWRTEC (euphonium and tuba conference). Works by Levell and
Morales. https://www.nwrtec2017.com/
April 21-23, Lionel Hampton School of Music, University of Idaho, Moscow Idaho. Adjudicator for Moscow Music Teachers Association Spring Adjudications.
April 17, 8:00 pm, Kimbrough Music Building, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, Room 115. Concerto for Two
by Mark Janello, with Lark Powers. Part of Dr. Janello's residence at WSU.
Feb. 23, 8:00 pm, Kimbrough Hall, Washington State University, Pullman, WA. Two-piano pieces with Dr. Lark Powers as part of the WSU Faculty Artist
Series.
Jan. 15-16, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA. Judging for the North West Division of MTNA Piano Competitions.
2016
Nov. 6, 4:30 pm, Kimbrough Music Building, room 245, Washington State University School of Music, Pullman, WA. Lecture for Washington State
Music Teachers Association, Pullman Chapter.
Nov. 4, private performance for the 125th Anniversary Gala, Washington State University College of
Pharmacy, Spokane, WA.
July 19, 6:00 pm, Salle Mathurin-Monier,
Bibliothèque municipale de Dinan, Dinan, France.
4-hand recital with Lark Powers. Works by Bach-Kurtág, Guastavino, Montsalvatge, Hahn, Mompou, Chabrier and Ravel.
June 2, 10:30 am, Garvey Recital Hall,
Oklahoma Christian University, Edmond, OK.
Oklahoma Music Teachers Association State Conference, Faculty from Five Oklahoma Universities, 3 Divertissments for piano four-hands
by X. Montsalvatge, with Lark Powers.
May 15, 12 pm, Anfiteatro Simón Bolívar, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City. 2-piano recital
with Lark Powers. Works by Mozart, Ravel, Montsalvatge, Bolcom, Coral and Janello.
March 20, 2 pm, Stanley Hotel Concert Hall, Estes Park, CO. 4-hand recital with Lark Powers. Works by Bach-Kurtág,
Mendelssohn, Chabrier, Ravel, Hahn, Guastavino and Montsalvatge.
March 18-19 University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO. The College Music Society, 31st Rocky Mountain Regional Conference. Lecture-recital: Chávez, Ginastera and the Search for a Pan American Musical Identity. Works by Chávez, Ginastera, Copland and Villa-Lobos.
March 10, Foundation for Iberian Music, The Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation, The Graduate
Center, City University of New York, New York, NY. Lecture: Granados and Cuba. Part of the conference Enrique Granados, A
Century Later: Twenty-first Century Contexts for Nineteenth Century Musical Works.
2015
May 31, 12:00 pm, Sala Carlos Chávez, Centro Cultural Universitario, Mexico City. Recital. Foro Internacional de Música Nueva "Manuel Enríquez". Mexican
premieres of pieces by Catalan composers Moisès Bertran, Leonardo Balada, Ramón Humet and Agustín Charles.
Link to the printed program: http://issuu.com/h_crespo/docs/programa_foro_digital_2015/79?e=4543070%2F12948210
May 1, 7:30 pm, Faust Auditorium, East Central University, Ada, OK.
Faculty Recital: Lark Powers.
Apr. 11 Ataola Theatre, East Central University, Ada, OK. Adjudicator,
Oklahoma Federation of Music Clubs State Festival.
March 26, 7:30 pm, First United Methodist Church Chapel, Ada, OK. Clayton Sullivan, percussion. Senior Recital.
2014
Oct. 13, 7:30 pm, Dorothy Summers Theatre, East Central University; Ada, OK.
Jessika Coleman, saxophone. Senior Recital. Works by
Marcello, Bozza, Milhaud, Maurice and Gershwin.Sept. 3, 10 am. Recital for Wednesday Music Club. Spanish piano music for fourands, with Lark Powers. Ada Arts and Heritage
Center.
Oct. 9, 7:30 pm, Faust Auditorium, East Central Univeristy, Ada, OK.
Recital with ECU faculty Lark Powers and Rudy Lupinski, works for piano four- and six-hands.
August 9, 9:30 pm, Castillo de Jesús Nazareno, Garrucha, Almería. Closing concert (with Lark Powers). Festival Internacional de Música de Tecla Española
"Diego Fernández". 2- and 4-handed Spanish keyboard music (In memoriam Rafael Puyana).
August 8, 11:00 am. Symposium of Festival Internacional de Música de Tecla Española "Diego Fernández". Mojácar, Almería, Spain.
Lecture-Recital "Los compositores españoles del siglo XX y el revival de la sonata bipartita para teclado del siglo XVIII: una aportación de la estética
neoclásica".
May 1, 7:30 pm; Ada Arts and Heritage Center; Ada, OK. 4-hand recital with Lark Powers. Works by Albéniz, Debussy, Ravel, Montsalvatge, P.D.Q. Bach and
Schubert.
July 16, 8:00 pm. Recital with Lark Powers: Catalonia and North America through the Piano Repertoire. In Memoriam Alicia de Larrocha. In collaboration with the
Mexican consulate in Barcelona. Cultural Space of the Centre Cívic Pere Pruna. C Ganduxer, 130, Barcelona.
July 16, 9:00 am. International Conference: Interpreting Eighteenth-Century Iberian Music. Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya, Barcelona.
Round table: El pasado idealizado: Joaquín Nin, José Subirá y la recuperación del siglo XVIII a comienzos del siglo XX.
July 8, 7:00 pm (CST) Radio broadcast "La vida secreta" with host and pianist Rodolfo Ritter, Mexico City.
Código Ciudad de México
Listen to the podcast: http://www.codigoradio.cultura.df.gob.mx/index.php/la-vida-secreta/16963-ricardo-de-la-torre
April 27, 3:00 pm; Ada Arts and Heritage Center; Ada, OK. Joshua Coats, tenor. Senior recital. Works by A. Scarlatti, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Berlioz and Ives.
April 14, 7:30 pm; Ada Arts and Heritage Center; Ada, OK. Elizabeth Blanchard, soprano. Senior recital. Works by Handel, Vivaldi, Gluck, Mozart, Schumann, Delibes
and Rossini.
March 29. Tulsa Center. Judging for Oklahoma Music Teachers Association District Achievement Audition.
March 25, 7:30 pm; Ataola Theatre, Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center; Ada, OK.
Recital with Evan Chancellor, horn. Works by Dominich, Saint-Saëns, F. Strauss and Neuling.
March 1; East Central University; Ada, OK. Judging for Oklahoma Federation of Music Clubs Auditions.