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Marcos Madrigal
Classical pianist
A pianist devoted to revealing the architecture, emotion, and imagination within the great works of the classical repertoire.
Classical pianist
A pianist devoted to revealing the architecture, emotion, and imagination within the great works of the classical repertoire.
Marcos Madrigal was three years old when he started studying piano. In 2007, he graduated with honors from the University of Arts of Cuba (ISA) in Havana, under the guidance of the renowned professor and pianist Teresita Junco. He attended Master Classes at the Conservatory of Southern Switzerland in Lugano and at the International Piano Academy Lake Como, where he had the chance to study with Andreas Staier, Dimitri Bashkirov, Fou Ts'ong, John Perry, Malcolm Bilson and especially with his mentor William Grant Naboré.
He has performed in recitals and as a soloist with orchestra in many of the world's renowned concert halls, including the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires, the Auditorium Parco della Musica of Rome, the Queen Elizabeth Hall of London, the National Concert Hall of Dublin, the Auditorium Manuel de Falla of Granada, the Bucharest Opera House, the Volkstheater of Vienna, the Teatro Rossini of Pesaro, the Teatro delle Muse of Ancona, the Teatro Gentile da Fabriano, the Teatro Góngora of Córdoba and the Qintai Grand Theater of Wuhan.
He has worked with notable conductors including Claudio Abbado, Leo Brouwer, Paul Mann, Enrique Diemecke and Lorenzo Ramos.
Madrigal has also collaborated on several projects with Oscar-winning composer Nicola Piovani, as well as with distinguished composers in the worlds of film and theatre.
In 2015, he gave his celebrated United States debut at Finney Hall in Oberlin, Ohio.
Since 2017, he has been Artistic Director of Habana Clásica, an international classical music festival held in Havana.
Among his recordings are Homo Ludens, with Maestro Leo Brouwer; Concert for Four Hands, with Cuban pianist Teresita Junco; the Opera Omnia for Piano and Orchestra of José María Vitier; and Cuba, a monograph dedicated to Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona. The latter received numerous distinctions, including the Choc de Classica in France, the Melómano de Oro in Spain, Cubadisco in Cuba and five stars from Diapason in France.
Madrigal has also recorded live concerts and participated in programmes for international radio and television networks including the BBC, Vatican Radio, Radiotelevisione svizzera, Radio Suisse Romande and Italian Rai Radio 3. In 2013, Rai Radio 3 broadcast a five-episode documentary dedicated to his life, Piano Libre – The Other Music of Cuba.
In May 2025, Madrigal was named Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by France, an honour bestowed by the French Ministry of Culture in recognition of his distinguished international career and his contribution to artistic and cultural life.
Opening at the Festival Castell de Peralada alongside leading opera artists Ermonela Jaho and Benjamin Bernheim. The programme brings together some of the finest pages of the Italian and French vocal repertoire, alongside works for solo piano.
On stage Marcos Madrigal and Roberto Mansueto, two internationally renowned performers, bring to life an intense dialogue between piano and cello, accompanying the audience on a musical journey through Schumann, Chopin and Šhostakovič.
Brahms’ Horn Trio with Marcos Madrigal, Felix Klieser and Linus Roth.
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