Bruno Leonardo Gelber

Member of the Honorary Committee

Among others, the Argentinian pianist Bruno Leonardo Gelber studied with Marguerite Long in Paris. "You will be my last pupil, but undoubtedly the finest,” declared the grande dame to the then nineteen-year-old, who was studying on a grant from the French government. His sensational participation in the Marguerite Long Piano Competition was the beginning of a major international career playing with conductors like Kurt Masur, Sergiu Celibidache, Sir Colin Davis, Charles Dutoit, Lorin Maazel, Mstislav Rostropovich, Christoph Eschenbach and Esa-Pekka Salonen.

Bruno Leonardo Gelber, one of the world’s finest interpreters of Brahms, has received many awards, including the Prix du Disque de l’Académie de Paris for his Beethoven sonatas and the Grand Prix de l’Académie Charles Cros for the Piano Concertos nos. 3 and 5.

(March 2006)