An enterprising and discerning recitalist, a concerto soloist with a refreshingly diverse repertoire, Mexican pianist Fernando Garcia Torres is also an active chamber musician. He studied in Germany at the Musikhochschule Köln under Alfons Kontarsky and with György Sandor and Leon Fleisher at the University of Michigan, where he earned the degrees of Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance.
Named Best Soloist of 1990 for his performance of the José Rolon Concerto, he has appeared as soloist with most of the orchestras in Mexico and also in the United States, Germany and England with such conductors De Priest, Meier, Sedares, Saccani, Mester, Savery, van Hessen, Herrera de la Fuente, Batiz, Rouits, Savin, Diemecke, Medina and Zimmerman.
Some of the groups he has collaborated with are the American String Quartet, the Ying String Quartet, the Penderecki String Quartet, the Latin American String Quartet and the Woodwind Quintet of the Berlin Philharmonic.
Mr. Garcia Torres has given Master Classes in Europe, the United States and Mexico and has been invited as adjudicator at many national and international competitions. He was Director of the Superior School of Music in Mexico City from 1985 to 1990. At the National Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico he was National Coordinator of Music and Opera from 1993–1998 and was subsequently the General Director of the National System for Musical Development of the National Council for Culture and the Arts until 2001.
He has been a regular guest of the most important festivals in Mexico and maintains a busy schedule of solo appearances with orchestra both in Mexico and abroad, acclaimed for his brilliant technique, musicality and sensitivity of style.
