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Berliner Zeitung am Abend: "Top international class; supreme technique."

Badischen Nachrichten, Baden-Baden: "Perfect Pianist."

Bulgaria: "Brilliant demonstration of the best art. Excellent artist."

SWD Zeitung, Germany: "Top category. Enthusiastic audience."

Renmin Ribao, Beijing: "Great quality, precision, and instrumental mastery."

Uusi Suomi, Helsinki: "Great sensitivity and velvety touch."

The New York Times: "Romantic exuberance; expressive generosity."

Edmonton: "Most impressive technique. Remarkably assured. Fully up to the heroic challenges"

Kingston: "Pianist Excels."

Edmonton Journal: "Fully up to heroic challenges"

Jorge Suarez Pianist

Rivne, Ukraine: "A pianist of the highest level; the audience was listening as if hypnotized."

Washington Post: "Sparkling lightness; relentless power."

The London Free Press: "Technically and artistically superb; impeccable playing."

Verdens Cag, Oslo: "Faultless technique; strong personality."

Budapest: "Splendid artist. Great success."

Belgrade: "Solid technique, sensitivity, precision, temperament, and warmth."

California: "Dazzling technique; total control."

Ottawa: "Unbounded enthusiasm in the audience."

Winnipeg: "Splendid pianist. Engagingly extroverted personality, unfailing fingers, seismic power."

Beijing, Renmin Ribao: "Great quality, precision, and instrumental mastery"

The Spectator Hamilton: "Suarez is a remarkable virtuoso."

"Jorge Suarez, by his own right, holds a superior place among the pianists of the Hemisphere."
                                                                             Efrain Paesky
                                                                    - Secretary General of CIDEM, OEA Chief, Division of Arts
                                                                                         OEA Inter-American Music Council

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Jorge Suarez

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"Top international class; Supreme technique"

-Berliner Zeitung am Abend

       Jorge Suárez is a world-class virtuoso pianist who, with his over 2000 concerts, has been acclaimed throughout the world and lauded by the press as a “top international class“, “perfect pianist“ with “supreme technique“ that literally leaves every listener spellbound. Every work he performs is realized with the dramatic intensity and guiding vision that only an “excellent artist” and “a pianist of the highest level” can achieve. Jorge Suárez is an “exceptional musician” whose playing is a “brilliant demonstration of the best art”, full of “romantic exuberance”, “relentless power” and ”instrumental mastery”, complemented with “sparkling lightness”, “great sensitivity and velvety touch”. His thousands of concerts with over 540 major compositions by over 120 composers have covered the Americas, Europe, Russia, and Asia, at such prestigious international festivals and concert halls as:

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Festivals:

Dubrovnik, Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, Belgrade, Helsinki, Turku, Plovdiv, North Bohemia, Cervantino, Acapulco, Puerto Vallarta, Pyong Yang, Varna.

Concert Halls:

Carnegie Hall (New York)

Kennedy Center and

The Hall of the Americas (Washington)

Concertgebouw (Amsterdam)

National Gallery (Ottawa)

Sibelius (Helsinki)

Chopin (Warsaw)

Musikverein (Vienna)

Music Academy (Budapest)

Berliner Ensemble (Berlin)

Kaikan Theatre (Tokyo)

Nationalities’ Theatre (China)

Bellas Artes and Nezahualcoyotl (Mexico)

Since his orchestral debut at age 9 (Mozart’s Concerto 23), he has performed 48 of the most famous Concertos written for Piano, with important symphony orchestras of North America, Europe and Asia such as:

The Cleveland, Phoenix (USA),

Capitole de Toulouse (France),

IHEM Symphony (Switzerland);

Erzgebirgisches (Germany);

Most Festival Orchestra (Czech Republic),

Rivne Chamber Orchestra (Ukraine),

Edmonton (Canada)

His ample and diversified repertoire goes from Bach to contemporary; from the well-known to the obscure; from solo works to concertos and chamber music. He has also graced the stage with such eminent artists as

Henryk Szeryng, Dimitry Markevitch,

Ruggiero Ricci, Leonid Kogan,

Bruno Giuranna, Manuel Suarez, 

and his former Trio Mexico, 

Highest Distinction of the Inter-American

Music Council and first Trio to play in China

after its reopening. 

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   He has recorded for the Radios of Europe, Asia, and the Americas as well as over 20 recordings (19 CD’s). Dr. Suárez's education is as hemispheric as his concertizing. He has studied at some of the most prestigious music schools:

Curtis Institute (Philadelphia),

Tchaikovsky Conservatory (Moscow),

McGill University (Montreal, Doctor in Music),

University of Southern California (Los Angeles),

Institute for Advanced Musical Studies (Montreux),

and Ravel Academy (France). 

      His many teachers include Heinrich Neuhaus, Philippe Entremont, Rosina Lhevinne, Guillermo Salvador and more. Jorge Suárez has presented lectures, master classes, and scholarly writings on many musical, artistic and humanistic subjects.  He has adjudicated at several competitions, including the International Competition of Musicology, Cuba. He has been the Dean of the Faculty of Music of the National University, Mexico’s largest, and a professor at various major universities, including Queen’s and Manitoba in Canada. In 1991, he married Rosemarie Peart and moved to Canada in 1992.

PERFORMED PIANO CONCERTOS

BACH: D minor, F minor

BARBER: Concerto

BEETHOVEN: Triple, 2, 3, 5

Choral Fantasy

CHAUSSON: Double

CHOPIN: 1

DEBUSSY: Fantasy

DOHNANYI: Variations

FALLA: Nights in the Gardens of Spain

FRANCK: Variations, Les Djinns

GERSHWIN: Rhapsody in Blue

LISZT: Totentanz, Malediction, Spanish Rhapsody, 1

MARTINU: Triple Concertino

MONTANI: Concertino (LP)

MOZART: 9, 23, Coronation (26)

PROKOFIEV: 2, 3

RACHMANINOV: 1, 3

RAVEL: Left Hand

SAINT-SAENS: Carnival

SCHUMANN: A Minor

SHOSTAKOVICH: 1

TCHAIKOVSKY: Fantasy, 1, 2, 3

VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS: Two Pianos

R. CASTRO: Caprice-Valse, Concerto

M. ENRIQUEZ: Concerto

B. GALINDO: 2

J. GUTIERREZ HERAS: Divertimento
(1st performance of Version 2)

R. HALFFTER: Concert Overture (CD)

F. IBARRA: Concerto (1st performance) Rite of Encounter

E. MATA: Improvisaciones 2 (RCA)

M. MATTHEWS: Concerto
(dedicated to Jorge Suárez)

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CRITICAL OPINION

The New York Times. “Romantic exuberance; expressive generosity.”
Oslo.  “Faultless technique; strong personality.”
Baden.  “Perfect pianist.”
The Washington Post. “Sparkling lightness; relentless power.”
Beijing.  “Great quality, precision and instrumental mastery.”
Helsinki.  “Great sensitivity; velvety touch.”
Phoenix.  “The most animated performance.”
California.  “Dazzling technique; total control.”
Berlin.  “Top international class; supreme technique.”
The Hague.  “Bravo! A very good concert!”
Budapest.  “Splendid artist. Great success.”
Bulgaria.  “Brilliant demonstration of the best art. Excellent artist.”
Belgrade.  “Solid technique and sensitivity. Precision, temperament, and warmth.”
Germany.  “Top category. Enthusiastic audience.”
Houston Chronicle.  “Big romantic sound.”
Ottawa.  “Unbounded enthusiasm in the audience.”
Kingston  “Pianist excels.”
London.  “Technically and artistically superb; impeccable playing”
Winnipeg.  “Splendid pianist.  Engagingly extroverted personality, unfailing fingers, seismic power”
Edmonton.  “Most impressive technique.  Remarkably assured.  Fully up to the heroic challenges.”
Ukraine.  “A Pianist of the highest level.”
Edmonton journal.  “Fully up to heroic challenges."
The Spectator Hamilton.  “Suarez is a remarkable virtuoso.”
Kennedy Center, Washington D.C. (the Washington Post).
“The ensemble gave warmly evocative readings that stressed exceedingly romantic interpretations.”
Schoenberg Hall Auditorium at UCLA, The Chamber Music Series (the Los Angeles Times).
“Sustained tension that leave the listener with an appetite for more."
Carnegie Hall (Peter G. Davis - The New York Times). 
“Propulsively energetic and passionately Romantic statements that seemed especially suited to this ensemble's exuberant approach.

SAMPLE PROGRAMS
JORGE SUAREZ, PIANIST

GENERAL PIANORAMA SERIES

I. BEETHOVEN PIANORAMA

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 II. CHOPIN PIANORAMA

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 III. LISZT PIANORAMA

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 IV. LISZT AND POETRY PIANORAMA

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 V. RAVEL PIANORAMA

 

VI. SONATA PIANORAMA I: FROM SCARLATTI TO CHOPIN

SCARLATTI, SOLER, HAYDN

MOZART, BEETHOVEN, CHOPIN

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VII. SONATA PIANORAMA II: FROM RAVEL TO GINASTERA

RAVEL, SCRIABIN, PROKOFIEV

BARTOK, IBARRA, GINASTERA

 

VIII. RUSSIAN PIANORAMA

TCHAIKOVSKY, MUSSORGSKY, PROKOFIEV, SCRIABIN

 

IX. LIGHT CLASSICS PIANORAMA

BEETHOVEN, MOZART, CHOPIN, LISZT
TCHAIKOVSKY, DEBUSSY, RAVEL

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AMERICAN AND XX CENTURY
PIANORAMA SERIES

X. MEXICAN PIANORAMA

MIGUEL BERNAL JIMENEZ, JULIAN CARRILLO, BLAS GALINDO

FEDERICO IBARRA, EDUARDO HERNANDEZ MONCADA

JOSE PABLO MONCAYO, JOSE ROLON, LEONARDO VELAZQUEZ

 

 

XI. CONTEMPORARY CANADIAN PIANORAMA

BRIAN CHERNEY, JEAN COULTHARD,

ALFRED FISHER, 

ALCIDES LANZA, BRUCE MATHER, MICHAEL

MATTHEWS, JOHN REA

 

 

XII. CONTEMPORARY SOUTH AMERICAN AND

CARIBBEAN PIANORAMA

ALCIDES LANZA (ARGENTINA), ALBERTO

VILLALPANDO (BOLIVIA)

LUIS JORGE GONZALEZ (ARGENTINA),

LEO BROUWER (CUBA)

CARLOS TEPPA (VENEZUELA)

 

 

XIII. CONTEMPORARY MEXICAN PIANORAMA

RODOLFO HALFFTER, MANUEL DE ELIAS,

MANUEL ENRIQUEZ, HECTOR QUINTANAR

LEONARDO VELAZQUEZ, FEDERICO IBARRA,

MARIO LAVISTA, ARTURO MARQUEZ

 

 

XIV. ROMANTICISM AND FOLKLORE IN LATIN AMERICA

ALBERTO GINASTERA, JOSE PABLO MONCAYO, ERNESTO NAZARETH,
HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS, RICARDO CASTRO, HAROLD GRAMATGES,
JUAN B. PLAZA, JOSE ARDEVOL, AMADEO ROLDAN

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