Elizabeth ArenasPianist
Belong to one of the virtuous pianists of the present time. Venezuelan pianist Elizabeth Arenas, started my studies in music very early and was taught by my father, Dr. in Musicology and Pedagogy.
I studied dentistry and practice as a dentist, before I started her career as a concert pianist. I went to Vienna (Austria) to continue my studies in music with the famous Professor Paul Badura - Skoda.
Three years later, I began to work as professional musician. I have given concerts in North America, Canada, Europa, Africa, Asia and South America. I had performed with such Orchestras as the Sinfonica de Sao Paulo, Carolina Chamber Orchestra, Namibia National Symphony Orchestra, Fresno Philharmonic, The Bangkok Symphony Orchestra, KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra, Cairo Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Kazanawa, Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Filármonica de Jalisco, Durban City Orchestra, Cyprus Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Filármonica de Málaga, WDR Sinfonieorchester, Junge Philharmonie Köln, Kölner Kammerorchester, Manchester Camerata, Rundfunksinfonie Stuttgard, Orquesta Nacional de Espana.....
She has been played under conductors like Cesário Costa, Hector Guzmán, Marcello Mottadelli, John Floore, Victor Yanpolsky, Peter Kovacs....
She had been invited to renowned Festivals, such as the Al Bustan International Festival of Music and the Arts, Quincena Musical San Sebastian, Festival International de Música y Danza de Granada, Brighton Festival, Piano aux Jacobins Festival, Festival Musical Cervantino, Incontri Europei con la musica, Bachwoche Ansbach.....
She is a artist with strong humanitarian beliefs, she had participated in numerous benefit concerts for different Institutions and Organization dedicated to providing help trough music. Now she is a “Pianist in Resident” in the World Doctors Orchestra in Berlin being always to disposition to play benefit concerts in different projects. At the moment, she work in the project of donation of instruments and the construction of music’s school for the musicians of the Kinshasa Symphony.
She has played numerous recitals in several concert halls as Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires, Baxter Theatre Centre, Salle Mozart, Aula Universität Köln, Bechsteinsaal, Teatro San Leonardo, Teatro Isabel La Católica, Austria Centre, Bösendorfersaal, Ayuntamiento de Granada, Atheneum Theatre, Villa Teresa Coswig, Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Chile, Hugo Lambrecht Auditorium, Gusman Hall, Schumannhaus, Beethovenhaus, Mauritius Port Louis Theatre, Teatro Ciudad de Marbella, Vienna Konzerthaus, Teatro Ciudad de Mexico, Teatro Juarez de Guanajuato, Teatro Degollado de Jalisco, Teatro Real de Madrid, Shanghai Oriental Arts Center, Suzhou Culture and Arts Center, Teatro Auditorio de Cuenca, Gran Teatro de Cáceres.......
I had worked in the perfection of my repertoire in Germany, USA, France, England with well know teachers: Friedrich Wilhelm Schnurr, Marlcom Frager, Paul Maillet, Jeremy Menuhin, Philipper Entremont, Karmierz Gierzod, Dominique Merlet.
The pieces of my repertoire embrance specially from baroque until the contemporary, in the last years, I had been devoted to investigate and to work
unknow pieces and always including in my program of concerts.
Member of different international Societies whose objective is the collaboration in the protection and memory of the work of different composers.
In 1996 I worked a year with the founder of the Superior School of song in Granada - Spain, the British teacher Mariam Bryfdir
In 1997 I wan engaged for 3 months to work as a teacher in the “Akademische Musik Institut” in Kwangju - South Korea.
Elizabeth Arenas is invited regularly to dictate masterclasses to the students of the National Conservatory of Music of Mauritius
At the moment she work in writing transcription of different composers for piano.
