Aldo López-Gavilán and his two daughters make their concert debut in Colombia

September 7, 2022

The prominent Cuban pianist and composer Aldo López-Gavilán and his daughters Adriana and Andrea performed together for the first time in concert at the Teatro Colsubsidio Roberto Arias Pérez in this capital.

This international family debut was full of surprises, but the protagonists were the young women who play various instruments such as bass, flute, and piano, López-Gavilán detailed in statements to Prensa Latina.

Considered one of the greatest geniuses of contemporary piano playing, not only in Cuba, but throughout all of Latin America, he commented that it was a beautiful concert, very varied and mostly featuring works from his own family and songs from the Vieja Trova, such as those by Sindo Garay.

Adriana and Andrea played the piano four-handed, as did Aldo López-Gavilán, whose virtuosity on this instrument places him within the array of immense Cuban pianists such as Chucho Valdés, Ernesto Lecuona, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Ramón Valle, among many others.

The two young women also sang at the highly anticipated concert, which also featured percussionist Carlos Rodolfo Valdés, a Cuban resident in Colombia, as a special guest.

Valdés and Aldo López-Gavilán made the album En el Ocaso de la Hormiga y el Elefante, a Cubadisco award winner in the year 2000.

This family, which represents avant-garde Cuban piano music, offered a different matinee to the Bogotá public at one of the most frequented theaters in this city and also a stage for a vast universe of artists from Cuba.