Pedro Burmester

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Born in 1963 in Porto, The Portuguese pianist Pedro Burmester studied for 10 years with Helena Costa, and finished in 1981 his piano studiees at the Conservatório do Porto with maximum classification. Later, he moved to the USA, having worked there, between 1983 and 1987, with Sequeira Costa, Leon Fleisher and Dmitry Paperno. In addition, he attended the master-classes of Jörg Demus, Aldo Ciccolini, Karl Engel, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Tatiana Nikolayeva and Elisabeth Leonskaja. In 1983, he won 2nd prize of the International Piano Competition "Vianna da Mota" in Lisbon. He was awarded the Jury Discretionary Award of the 1989 Van Cliburn Competition, and he was prize winner of several national piano competitions, such as Prix de Sá Moreira. Pedro Burmester started his concert activity at 10 years old and since then has held over 500 concerts, a solo, with orchestra and in co-operation with various chamber music ensembles in Portugal and abroad. Besides being invited to perform in all Portuguese festivals, he has played in France's main Festivals (such as Le Roque d'Anthéron), in Festivals in Italy, at the Belfast Festival, the Klavierfestival Ruhr, the Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker, both the Flanders Festival and the Wallonie Festival in Belgium. He went on tour in France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Poland, the USA, Canada, Japan (with the Metropolitan Orchestra), Australia (1997-1998 with the Australian Chamber Orchestra), South Africa, Latin America (Brazil), …. Some of the pre

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Schumann: Fantasie op. 17 - Liszt : Sonata in B Minor, S 178

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J. S. Bach - Variações Goldberg

Schubert / Schumann

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VARIAÇÕES GOLDBERG

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J . S . Bach - Variações Goldberg

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Schubert / Schuman

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Schumann & Schubert: Piano

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J . S . Bach

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Piano R.Schumann E.Schubert

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J.S. BACH : Goldberg Variations - BWV 988

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Variações Goldberg

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