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Mexican
pianist and musicologist César Reyes is an active member
of the Society for American Music. After graduating from Mexico’s
National Conservatory, he came to the United States in 2001 to continue
his studies under the direction of the renowned Cuban-American pedagogue
Germán Diez, disciple and assistant of the legendary pianist
Claudio Arrau. Mr. Reyes earned a Master Degree in Music at CUNY.
He has presented lecture-recitals on the piano music of Mexico at
numerous conferences in the United States and Europe. An Advocate
of contemporary music, Mr. Reyes produces the artist tours, The
Music of Our Century, sponsored by the Mexican National Endowment
for the Arts. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of the First
Annual Latin American Piano and Song Festival of New York (2008),
the first U.S. festival dedicated to the exploration of classical,
folk and popular traditions of the Latin American piano and song
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