Oscar Macchioni will present a lecture recital, Nineteen-Century Latin American Music: The Seeds of Nationalism.
$10 Admission
More information:
https://keyboard.music.arizona.edu/trester
Guest Artist Biography
Oscar Macchioni, a native of Argentina, is an accomplished solo and collaborative pianist,
professor, lecturer, author, and adjudicator. Critics have praised his clarity of lines, tone quality,
expressive phrasing, and the amiable way he presents his programs.
Oscar has performed extensively in his native Argentina, Italy, England, Poland, Serbia, Turkey,
Mexico, and the USA, at notable locations such as Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Teacher’s
College at Columbia University, Steinway Hall, St Martin in the Fields and James’s Piccadilly in
London, the Querceto International Piano Festival in Italy, and the National Conservatory in
Argentina. His live performance in the esteemed Myra Hess Memorial Concerts at the Chicago
Cultural Center has been broadcast on radio and television. His programs include an eclectic
repertoire from Bach and Brahms to Piazzolla and Bolcom. He is an assiduous performer of
classical Latin American repertoire.
A dedicated teacher and mentor, Dr. Macchioni is much in demand as an adjudicator at various
state, national, and international piano competitions and festivals, including the Bangkok
International Chopin Competition, the European Piano Teachers Association, Piano
Examinations Committee of Taiwan, MTNA, and the International Keyboard Odyssiad and
Festival among others. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Borderland Chopin
International Competition and Festival. His lecture-recitals and presentations at international
conferences have received numerous accolades, including the Outstanding Musical
Presentation at Second International Vernacular Conference in Puebla, Mexico and Diploma of
Excellence at the European Piano Teachers Association, World Piano Conference in Serbia.
His book, The Tango in American Piano Music, was published in 2010 by the College Music
Society’s Cultural Expressions in Music series. His debut CD, Mostly Tangos: Piano Music from
the Americas, has been released with favorable reviews by Eroica Classical Records. Centaur
Records released his albums, Piazzolla da Camera and Latin American Duos. He has published
articles on a variety of piano literature and piano pedagogy topics in the American Teacher
Magazine, Piano Pedagogy Forum, and Piano Inspires. He has been featured in Piano: La Lettre
du Musicien (France), Piano Education Page (USA), and various music magazines, radio, and T.V.
programs.
In 2015, Oscar received the most prestigious University of Texas System teaching award, the
“Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award”, and in 2019, he was inducted into the “UTEP Academy
of Distinguished Teachers.” He has been sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution of
Washington, D.C. (graduate researcher), the Polish Government, the Organization of American
States, and the Leschetizky Association of New York. He received the Music Teachers National
Association “StAr Award” and was named Distinguished Graduate Student by the University
of Arizona. He is a recipient of several grants, most recently the Texas Commission on the Arts
through the El Paso Museums and Cultural Affairs Department, to perform concerts in
underserved communities. He studied piano at the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán
(Argentina), the Krakow Academy of Music (Poland), Louisiana State University, and the
University of Arizona (USA). Oscar is a tenured Associate Professor of Piano Pedagogy at the
University of North Texas College of Music. Previously, he was a full tenured Professor of Piano,
Assistant Chair, and Keyboard Area Coordinator at the University of Texas at El Paso, where he
held the Bonnie Brooks Professorship in Music. Oscar Macchioni is a Steinway Artist.
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