YOUTUBE: Venezuela pianist Gabriela Montero, "ExPatria". A mini-documentary. - Venezuelan pianist and composer Gabriela Montero discusses and then performs "ExPatria", her composition for piano and orchestra, written in 2011. LIVE from the Martha Argerich Festival, Lugano 2012. Gabriela Montero (born May 10, 1970, Caracas) is a Venezuelan-American pianist known in particular for her real-time improvisation of complex musical pieces made "on the fly" on themes suggested by her audience and other sources as well as for performances of standard classical repertoire. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, of an American-born mother and a Venezuelan father, Gabriela Montero was barely a seven-month-old infant when her parents, at the insistence of her maternal grandmother, placed a toy piano in her playpen. It had been bought as a Christmas present for an older cousin. The baby immediately lifted her right index finger and went on to play individual notes, never once banging it with her fist, to the great surprise of her parents and grandmother. It became her favorite toy. She was put to sleep every night by her mother who sang to her the melody of the Venezuelan National Anthem, a tradition in the South American country. One day when she was fifteen months old, her parents noticed she was picking out a familiar tune on the little piano. Three months later, before she could even speak, she had picked out by herself the entire melody of the National Anthem. From then on she would repeat this process with whatever song she heard. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriela_Montero
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