Luisa Guembes-Buchanan
Concert pianist, musicologist and educator, Luisa Guembes-Buchanan was born in Lima, Perú, where she received her early musical education at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música. She holds degrees in Performance and Musicology from the Manhattan School of Music, C. W. Post College, New York University and Boston University.
In addition to giving numerous master classes and recitals, Ms. Guembes- Buchanan has lectured on such diverse topics as the film music of Hans Eisler, the jazz influence in the music of Ravel, the flamenco elements in the music of Manuel de Falla and the music of Perú during the colonial period.
She has produced CDs of the five extant piano sonatas of E.T.A. Hoffmann and Robert Schumann’s Kreisleriana as part of her study of Hoffmann as a composer and his profound influence on Schumann. Recently, her research study of Beethoven’s Late Period has led to a six-CD set containing the five piano sonatas op.101-111; the two cello and piano sonatas op.102 nos. 1 and 2; the Bagatelles op.119 and 126; piano piece WoO 60; and two fragments from the Artaria 195 sketchbook.
Ms. Guembes-Buchanan is dedicated to promoting the education of young performers and to facilitating performance opportunities for them.
