FUSIÓN: Piano Music of the Last 100 Years featuring pianist Mateo Hurtado Castillo

Join us for FUSIÓN: Piano Music of the Last 100 Years, a concert featuring pianist Mateo Hurtado Castillo in an exploration of a century of exceptional piano music that transcends genres, challenges boundaries, and discovers unexpected connections between diverse musical traditions.

Imagine Bill Evans, Duke Ellington, Chick Corea, Alberto Ginastera, György Kurtág, Pierre Boulez, and Consuelo Velázquez sharing the same stage. Through their music, different worlds enter into dialogue, creating contrasts, revealing common ground, and inviting us to reconsider the boundaries between musical styles.

From classical music and jazz to the avant-garde and Latin American music, FUSIÓN offers a fresh perspective on the piano, free from labels and guided by the expressive voice of each composition. The result is a rich mosaic of sounds, gestures, and ideas that celebrates the diversity of musical expression across the last hundred years.

Program

First Half

1. Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) / Miles Davis (1926–1991)
   Medley: My Favorite Things / Nardis
2. Thelonious Monk (1917–1982)
   ’Round Midnight

• Duke Ellington (1899–1974)
  African Flower
• Michel Camilo (b. 1954)
  From Within

Intermission

Second Half

1. Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)
   Prelude in C-sharp Minor, Op. 3, No. 2 
2. Manuel M. Ponce (1882–1948)
   Mazurka No. 9 
3. Ernesto Lecuona (1896–1963)
   La Comparsa 
4. Bill Evans (1929–1980)
   Peace Piece 
5. Alberto Ginastera (1916–1983)
   Danza de la moza donosa 
6. Astor Piazzolla (1921–1992)
   Libertango 
7. Consuelo Velázquez (1916–2005)
   Bésame Mucho 

About Mateo:

Mateo Hurtado Castillo was born on June 22, 2009, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, and began studying piano and music with his parents at an early age. He has received distinctions in numerous competitions, including the Grand Prize Virtuoso International Music Competition (Germany), Odin International Music Competition (Ireland), Progressive Musicians Classics Competition (USA), América para Todos Ibero-American Competition (Mexico), Franz Liszt International Competition (Spain), International Mozart Piano Competition (Croatia), Sergei Rachmaninoff International Piano Competition (Bosnia and Herzegovina), and the Best Chopin Performance International Music Competition (England). He made his debut at Mexico’s Palacio de Bellas Artes at the age of 15.

In 2026, the Mexican government selected him for a scholarship that will enable him to embark on a concert tour across several cities in Mexico.