Tickets in advance: $25

Tickets at the door: $30

Live Streaming Access: Pay what you want. Donations are welcome.

Hunter Hall presents the renowned international pianist Abdiel Vazquez in our intimate concert setting.

Mingle at our relaxed reception afterwards.

Concert starts at:

3pm Eastern Time (NY, NJ)

1pm Central Time (Mexico)

PROGRAM: Coming Soon

The Concert will be Live Streamed by "Out N About". 

ABDIEL VAZQUEZ

ABDIEL VÁZQUEZ is a New York-based conductor and pianist, born and raised in Mexico and widely regarded as one of the most versatile musicians in the classical music world for his work as a symphonic and operatic conductor, his solo piano recitals and recordings, his performances as a soloist with orchestra, his collaborations with internationally renowned singers, and his work as an educator worldwide.

Vázquez is a Steinway Artist, Founder and Artistic Director of the Philharmonic Orchestra La Súper in Monterrey, Mexico, and Founder and Artistic Director of Vincerò Academy, a global mentorship platform connecting young singers from around the world with today’s greatest opera stars.

Abdiel has performed as a conductor, pianist, or both, at major international venues such as New York’s Carnegie Hall, the Chicago Cultural Center, London’s Guildhall, Buenos Aires’ Teatro Colón, Lima’s Gran Teatro Nacional, Mexico City’s Palacio de Bellas Artes, Guanajuato’s International Cervantino Festival, Monterrey’s Arena, and with the Simón Bolivar Symphony Orchestra in Caracas. Other cultural capitals include Paris, Madrid, Tokyo, Shanghai, Bogotá, and Viña del Mar.

Abdiel regularly shares the stage with internationally acclaimed singers. He has collaborated as a conductor or pianist with household names in opera such as Ailyn Pérez, Elīna Garanča, Javier Camarena, Kristine Opolais, and Michael Chioldi; Operalia winners Joshua Guerrero, María Katzarava, and David Lomelí; Broadway star Meghan Picerno; and Latin-American pop icon Susana Zabaleta.

Abdiel is one of the few musicians in the world who regularly plays and conducts from the piano, having performed in this way in multiple occasions Beethoven’s Piano Concertos, Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F and Rhapsody in Blue, Manuel M. Ponce’s Piano Concerto, and Arturo Márquez’s Danzón No. 2.

He has appeared more than a hundred times as a soloist with orchestra playing the concertos and works for piano and orchestra of Beethoven, Liszt, Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Gershwin, Ravel, de Falla, Ricardo Castro and Leonard Bernstein. He performed the Mexican premiere of Samuel Barber’s Piano Concerto, the New York premiere, at Carnegie Hall, of Ponce’s Piano Concerto, and the world premiere of the Piano Concerto “The Sun Pyramid” by Juan Pablo Contreras, with the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico and later with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela.

Abdiel’s first solo album, Love & Death with music by Wagner and Verdi, was released by Piano Classics in 2015 to rave international reviews. In 2021 he launched his second solo album, In the Silent Night, with music by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff.

He is also a featured soloist with the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra in the acclaimed album Mariachitlán with music by Juan Pablo Contreras, which was released by Universal Music in 2019 and received a Latin GRAMMY® nomination. These three recordings are available in all the major streaming platforms.

Vázquez made his conducting debut in 2009 and has guest conducted at Teatro Colón, Carnegie Hall, and Palacio de Bellas Artes. In September of 2020, he became the founder and first Artistic Director of the Philharmonic Orchestra La Súper in Monterrey, Mexico.

The inaugural performance of La Súper took place in October of 2021 at the International Santa Lucía Festival, presenting a mass outdoor concert in homage to Moncayo for more than 6,000 people, and since then the orchestra has presented two Spring seasons dedicated to Beethoven and Brahms, a mass concert at the Monterrey Arena with Javier Camarena, a gala with Elīna Garanča, another mass concert dedicated to Gershwin, Dvořák, and Gabriela Ortiz, and a performance at Palacio de Bellas Artes.

Founded also in September of 2020 by Abdiel, Vincerò Academy has embraced more than 100 students from 24 different countries, it has presented three performances at Carnegie Hall with Abdiel at the piano, and a full production of Don Giovanni in Mazatlán, Mexico, with Abdiel at the podium. In 2023, Abdiel and Vincerò Academy alumni will return to Mazatlán for a production of Le Nozze di Figaro.

Abdiel has conducted The Magic Flute, Le Nozze di Figaro, and Hansel and Gretel with Manhattan Opera Studio; Simon Boccanegra and Dialogues of the Carmelites with the Brooklyn Opera Company; and he has also been the rehearsal pianist and assistant conductor for productions in Mexico and the U.S. of Carmen, La Bohème, Tosca, La Traviata, La Cenerentola, L’Elisir d’Amore, Roméo et Juliette, and La Voix Humaine.

Ever since winning the President’s National Youth Award and the National Piano Competition Angélica Morales-Yamaha in 2006, and later the International José Jacinto Cuevas and Manuel Ponce Piano Competitions in 2010, Abdiel positioned himself as one of the leading pianists in Mexico and Latin America. In October of 2013 he won The World Competition - the first classical music competition ever to take place online - and in September 2018 he won the WPTA International Piano Competition in Argentina.

In November of 2020 he was officially named a Steinway Artist by Steinway & Sons.