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Natalia González was born in Buenos Aires in 1979. She started her music studies at the age of 7 with Prof. Reyna Gerstell. At the age of 10 she enters the National Conservatory “Carlos López Buchardo” (actual Department of Music of the National University Institute of Arts IUNA), under the guidance of Prof. Laly Escobar, getting the degrees of National Professor of Music specialized in Piano (age 18), High Professor of Music in Piano (age 21) and finally the Licentiature Degree in Music Arts in Piano.


Her repertoire contains works from Bach to contemporary music; always interested especially on the work of present time composers, she has participated on many premičres in Buenos Aires and abroad, in solo piano, chamber music, opera and piano with orchestra.

Winning one of the 5 scolarships for Young Iberoamerican Musicians granted by “Fundación Carolina” and “Juventudes Musicales de Madrid”, she moves to Spain in 2001 (where she stays until 2004), studying in Madrid with Gabriel Loidi Lizaso and Pablo Mielgo, having also participated in Masterclasses and piano courses with masters Manuel Carra and Ricardo Requejo in Madrid, Albert Atenelle at the International Summer Course “Alter Musici” in Cartagena, Murcia, and with a scolarship at the international music course “Música en Compostela” dedicated only to Spanish music, with pianists Manuel Carra and Antonio Iglesias, among many others. She has taken Music courses at the “Alcalá de Henares” University such as the ones held by Prof. Charles Rosen on Beethoven's concertos.

In 2004 she participates at the “International Bartok’s Seminary and Festival”, which takes place at Sombathey, Hungary, dedicated not only to the composer but also to Hungarian folk and contemporary music, studying with pianist Gabór Ekhardt.

Side by side with her solo work, she has an intense participation in chamber music. At Buenos Aires, she has been part of the “Kovacs-González” duet of alto sax and piano, is co-founder of the “Artemise” quartet and, currently, of “Kaunissimo” duet of cello and piano.
   

In Madrid she is co-founder of the “Piacevole Chamber Group”, has been part of the “Soto Mesa” chamber group and participated with the “Soto Mesa Chamber Orchestra” conducted by Pablo Mielgo and the “Orquesta de Jóvenes Virtuosos de la C.A.M.” conducted by Francisco Estévez, among many other chamber music activities.

Natalia González plays for an audience for the first time at the age of 8, on the argentinian TV channel ATC actual channel 7. and has given numerous concerts in important argentinian concert halls as a soloist and in chamber music since then.
In Spain, she has played from the year 2001 in concert halls such as the Chamber hall of the National Auditorium, the “Residencia de Estudiantes de Madrid”, or “Conde Duque” Auditorium, among many others.


She has been broadcasted by radio stations such as “Radio Clásica Nacional, RNA Radio Nacional Argentina”, live from it’s Concert Hall, and “Radio Cultura Musical” FM 100.3.
She has participated in numerous masterclasses and courses in piano and chamber music in Buenos Aires city with Masters such as Antonio de Raco, Emma Miranda, Jack Winerock, Roberto Urbay, María Ines Guimaraes, Nöel Devos, Alfredo Corral, Gabriela Montero, Hugo Goldensweig.


She has been professor of Music Theory at the “Conservatorio Superior de Música “Carlos López Buchardo” currently Music Arts Department of the Universitary National Institute of Arts (IUNA) in Buenos Aires during the courses 2000 and 2001 and holds currently a Music Theory workshop at the same institution.

At 26 yeas of age, Natalia González is one of the strongest promises of the musical and pianistic circuit. Her first CD “Concierto Tango” presents an innovating alternative: Music of contemporary composers (esp. latinoamerican) inspired on Tango for the Concert Piano.

This project brings her back to Buenos Aires to compile and build a new repertoire, by a hard process of investigation and selection, working side by side with composers, searching for a the special caracteristic of the tango inspiration in their works.

 
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