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Piano en canto venezolano II

The fourth Prisca`s Cd "Piano en canto venezolano II" is on sale in Esperanto, eurocompact stores, all national stores and by internet www.cdbaby.com

 
Piano en canto venezolano

The third  outing by one of the leading musical figures of South America´s most musical countries. Prisca´s third CD is a magical tour de force consisting of twelve beautiful songs written by some of the greatest Venezuelan composers such as Aldemaro Romero, Simón Díaz, Armando Moleiro, William Sigismondi, Luis Mariano Rivera and Juan Vicente Torrealba..

 

“Prisca has been the greatest revelation at the Music Do Pan Festival”.

Claudio Daulsberg, brazilian pianist and composer (artistic director festival Musica do pan”, Río de Janeiro, 2007)

“She enwraps herself in a highly contagious Latin jazz rooted in her native Venezuela with a precise pianistic technique without free ornaments where traditional rhythms are delivered with a powerful swing far from stridency but plenty of great taste and elegance.” El País (newspaper), Barcelona (Spain)

“…, It is the most eloquent confirmation of the Venezuelan music merit.
From her hands we can listen and enjoy the most refined interpretive quality of the undeniably talented sample of a valuable creative capacity, as is tradition among the Venezuelan pianists and composers" Aldemaro Romero (composer and Venezuelan pianist)

“As performer she projects a vitality and technical safety, which result is a clean disc with dynamical shades combined with jazz’ s improvisations, but always with Venezuelan touch,..” Gerry Weil (pianist, composer and Venezuelan teacher)living  leyend of jazz in Venezuela internationally acclaimed pianist composer

“This is an example from the new Venezuelan music. It’s a work executed with a lot of knowledge, filled up with natural feelings, nice taste and sensibility. A great company for the ear and the heart" Ilan Chester (Venezuelan pianist, composer and singer)

"If jazz celebrates a nature of change of forms, aesthetics and color moving forward against the stationary, Prisca gives us a reason to have a big party in Venezuela”. Otmaro Ruíz Internationally Acclaimed venezuelan Pianist/Composer

"Best interpretation and composition winner in the latin american, the caribbean and venezuela´s popular repertoire. I Concurso Nacional de piano Rosario Marciano", Caracas 2008 

“…Prisca’s sensitivity and vitality on the piano allows her voice to flow warmly and simply…” Marisela Leal
(Leading Voice Teacher)

BIOGRAPHY
Pianist, singer and composer

Prisca began studying music under the tutoring of María Luisa Stopello at the age of five.  By the age of eight, She had published her book of poetry.  In the year 2001, she became a “Piano Performer Professor” under the teachings of María Auxiliadora Díaz.  Later on, she studied contemporary harmony, improvisation and jazz with Gerry Weil, a living legend. She also attended the jazz workshops taught by Gonzalo Micó and Olegario Díaz two of the outmost Venezuela’s music teachers. She obtained the degree of “Lyric Singing Performer Professor” in 2004 under the tutoring of Flor García and Rubén Malnéz.  Soon after, she went into popular singing and vocal improvisation with Cesar Muñoz and Marisela Leal.  She still continues studying with the later one. 
In the year 2002, she was awarded with the “Honorific Mention for the Best Merengue Interpretation” in the First Venezuelan Piano Contest. Prisca is also a History Major from Universidad Central de Venezuela, class of 2004, where her thesis, “The Pianistic Movement in Caracas 1870-1920”, received Honorific Mention and Recommendation for Publication.   

However, her everyday life in the academic world soon found the pianist embracing the fantasy and looseness of popular music.  It was then that she became a student of three of the foremost jazz teachers of her country:  pianist Olegario Díaz, internationally acclaimed pianist composer Gerry Weil and guitarist Gonzálo Micó who taught her the difficult art of the improvisation and the jazz style.  She also studied popular singing and scat with professor Cesar Muñoz and she is currently under the teachings of beloved singer and composer Marisela Leal, one of the leading musicians in Venezuela. 
She obtained the degree of “Lyric Singing Performer Teacher” in 2004 under the tutoring of Flor García and Rubén Malnéz.  Soon after, she went into popular singing and vocal improvisation with Cesar Muñoz and Marisela Leal.  She still continues studying with the later one. 

In the year 2002, she was awarded with the “Honorific Mention for the Best Merengue Interpretation” in the First Venezuelan Piano Contest.  Prisca is also a History Major from Universidad Central de Venezuela, class of 2004, where her thesis, “The Pianistic Movement in Caracas 1870-1920”, received Honorific Mention and Recommendation for Publishing.   
Prisca’s musical language is based on the fusion of jazz, classical and Venezuelan music.  Her fourth recordings to date: Piano Jazz Venezolano (2003), Estoy Aquí (2005), Piano en canto Venezolano (2007) and Piano En Canto Venezolano II (2009), have been praised by some of the outmost Venezuelan musicians and the media.

Prisca has performed in some of the most prestigious halls both locally and abroad.  She played in festivals and concerts hall in many countries like Korea, Brazil, Dominic Republic, Holland, Spain, Czech Republic, France, Great Britain and Italy.

She won on october 2008 the “Rosario Marciano piano national contest” in composition and piano performance in Caracas, Venezuela. Prisca has been recently award with “Luis Alfonso Larrain  2009“ by Venezuelan Composer Society (SACVEN) because her wonderful contribution to venezuelan music. 

Also, She is the conductor of radio program called “la hora del pikirillo” about venezuelan music in Venezuela radio 100.7 fm www.ateneofm.com