ANA KARINA ALAMO

An artist of exceptional sensitivity, the Venezuelan-born pianist Ana Karina Alamo has been acknowledged by critics and audiences for her ability to project a rare vulnerability and honesty on stage, while drawing upon her virtuosic abilities. With performances throughout Europe South America and the United States, she has appeared at some of the world’s most prestigious venues including Carnegie Hall’s Weill Concert Hall, Vienna’s Ehbar Hall, Bonn’s Beethoven-Haus and the Rios Reina of the Teresa Carreno Music Hall in Caracas.

A now highly regarded soloist, pianist Ms. Alamo has performed with the Simon Bolivar Venezuelan Youth Orchestra; the Fort Worth Symphony; the Maracaibo Symphony and the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestras; as well as the Chamber Orchestra of Venezuela,; the Russian National Orchestra and the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas. She has also performed with an all-women orchestra celebrating International Women’s Day in Venezuela. Performing under the baton of Florian Krumpock in Vienna she was the invited soloist of the Sinfonietta Baden. She was featured soloist on its first international tour with the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas under the direction of Alondra de la Parra. She performed Edward McDowell’s Piano Concerto No. 2 on a tour that included such impressive concert halls as the Meyerson Center in Dallas and the Bellas Artes in Mexico City. That tour culminated with a final performance at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC attended by First Lady Laura Bush. The performance was followed by a reception at the White House where Ms. Alamo performed for President Bush in an informal setting.

Performing her first recital at the age of six for an audience of five hundred, Ana Karina Alamo gave her concerto debut at the age of nine with the Jovenes Arcos Orchestra performing “Pequena Fantasia” (Little Fantasy), a work written for her by Alexander Slobodyanik. Shortly thereafter, at the age of eleven, she was invited to record the same work with the Venezuela Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Eduardo Marturet. In 1997, in recognition of her contribution to the enhancement of her country, she was awarded the “Jose Felix Ribas Prize,” the highest honor given by Venezuela’s Family Ministry to a young artist.

A prize winner of multiple national and international competitions, receiving top honors, Ms. Alamo received her Piano Performance degree in 2000 at the “Escuela de Musica Manuel A. Lopez” in Venezuela under the tutelage of Olga Lopez. A scholarship pupil of Solomon Mikowsky at the Manhattan School of Music she received her Bachelor of Music degree there in 2005. She has also studied with Brigitte Engerer, and at the “Accademia Pianistica Incontri Col Maestro in Imola, Italy with Anna Kravtchenko and Leonid Margarius.