Pamela Hurtado

Pamela Hurtado

Pamela Hurtado is an active soloist and makes regular appearances in many concert halls including: Salle Cortot, Salle Gaveau, Les Archives Nationales, Claude Debussy Theater, Marcel Landowsky Concert Hall, the Fondation Heinrich Heine in Paris, Caruth Concert hall in Dallas, National Theater in Beauvais, Colmar and Lyon Operas and many others. Her artistic activity leads her to perform in France and abroad and she also appears in various Festivals such as Chopin Piano Festival and Young Talent Festival in paris, Piano Passion Festival in Saint Etienne, International Forum Musical in Normandie, Salon de musique Festival in Belfort, Musique a la ferme, Offenbach Festival, Saint Ulrich Festival, Musique en Re Festival...


Pamela Hurtado rubbed great masters at the piano, including internationally and she is the subject of several TV reports including the Japanese national channel NHK and France 3.


She is also a former student of Rena Shereshevskaya from the Ecole Normale Cortot of Paris where she obtained the Zaleski Scholarship. She is the winner of national and international competitions with many awards such as Steinway Young Artist Competition, Vulaines Special Chopin Competition, Claude Kahn competition, San Sebastian International Piano Competition in Spain, and finalist of the "World International Piano Competition" of Santa Fe in USA. She was awarded top prize of the International Piano Competition of Montrond in France. Pamela Hurtado is a Fulbright Award winner granted in 2008 which gave her the opportunity to post-graduate an Artist Certificate at Southern Methodist University of Dallas Texas under the guidance of the master Joachin Achucarro for 2 years.


She received master classes from Philippe Entremont, Edouard Zilberkant, Jerome Rose, Jean-Francois Heisser, Menahem Pressler and his career will become international, around theeux, Philippe Hersant, Jean-Baptiste Robin or Bruno Ducol. If she does not disdain contemporary composers, her passion remains chamber music and if the cellist Peter Wispelwey, the violinist Laurent Korcia or Elsa Grether, the violist Vinciane Beranger or the soprano Sandrine Eyglier (among others) were his partners, the one to who will be his predilection is undoubtedly Sebastien Hurtaud. She works as piano and chamber music teacher at Music Conservatoire du Val d'Yerres where she is also head of department of chamber music of the 5 conservatoires in the Val Senart. She gives masterclasses at the Academies of Flamm, Musicalta, and Nancyphonies in France. 

The Joaquín Achúcarro Foundation is proud to support the careers of the Legacy Pianists, who perform in honor of internationally acclaimed pianist Joaquín Achúcarro.

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