Gabriela Montero is a concert pianist with a special calling card. She devotes much of her time to an activity that classical pianists pretty much abandoned a couple of centuries ago: improvising.

Gabriela Montero is an up-and-coming performer on the world scene, with a newly released CD of piano miniatures and improvisations. Melissa Block and Performance Today host Fred Child critique and ...

In the world of classical music there is a great divide: between the remarkably talented who will never make it and the truly gifted. The gift, in the case of Gabriela Montero, is an ear, or brain, or ...

Of the million-plus ways to play the Grieg Piano Concerto, none truly compares to the way Gabriela Montero played it Friday night at Severance Hall. Performing with the Cleveland Orchestra and guest ...

Gabriela Montero is a Venezuelan pianist who’s amassed incredible success due to her prodigious talent and her hard work. Montero began her career as a pianist when she was four years old, in her ...

Gabriela Montero never expected to be a political activist, using her position as one of the world’s most acclaimed classical pianists to speak out against what is happening in her homeland of ...

To understand Gabriela Montero, the Venezuelan pianist and rare classical improviser, one needs to begin in the time of giants. When such masters as Bach, Beethoven and Brahms reigned, most serious ...

Piano diva Gabriela Montero will performs an original composition and a Liszt concerto with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra in New Orleans. (Photo by Uli Webber) In New Orleans, we’re accustomed ...

Jazz players are the musicians most often associated with improvisation. But Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and many other performers created classical music on the spot as a matter of ...

Thursday night’s chill dissipated in the heat generated by some powerful musicmaking at Strathmore by the Baltimore Symphony. Led by guest conductor Markus Stenz, the orchestra turned in a refined and ...

Few classical musicians these days are serious improvisers — aside from organists and early-music practitioners. But pianist Gabriela Montero is absolutely fearless when it comes to creating a new ...

Gabriela Montero is a 35-year-old Venezuelan pianist who has pursued a career mainly in Europe, where she has been championed by pianist Martha Argerich, among others. The evidence of this debut album ...