Alan Kwiek
Alan Kwiek, pianist.
Born in Buenos Aires, he started learning music at the age of 9. He studied with Lidia E. Santos, Fernanda Bruno, Pia Sebastiani and Elizabeth Westerkamp.
He has played as a soloist and chamber music performer in the most important venues in Argentina and abroad including: CCK, Teatro San Martín and Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, and Sala Astor Piazzolla and Sala Ginastera Halls of the Teatro Argentino in La Plata, etc., as well as on radio and TV.
Interested in pedagogy, he taught from an early age, both privately and in public schools in Buenos Aires and other Argentine cities. He has taught open classes at several Argentine and foreign institutions, including Salta School of Music, University of Tucumán and J. C. Arriaga Conservatory in Bilbao, Spain.
In March 2002 he was appointed collaborator of the Joao Pessoa Symphony Orchestra (Brazil) by its director Helena Herrera. On that occasion he conducted the city choir for the performance of G. Malher’s Symphony No. 3.
From 2000 to 2010 he was part of the piano duo “Bernárdez-Kwiek” with whom he performed regularly throughout Argentina. This duo was characterized by having a repertoire that includes works from Bach to Piazzolla.
In July 2008 he played in Italy at the “Pietrasanta in Concerto” International Festival where he performed with Martha Argerich works by Piazzolla, Schubert and Rachmaninoff.
He has been invited by musical organisations such as the Argentine Forum of Women Composers, the Argentine Association of Composers, CUDA, among others, to perform premieres of works for piano, 2 pianos, trios, quartets, etc. He has thus gone through a very varied repertoire of Argentine musical forms and authors.
Together with the violinist Cecilia Isas, he has been part of the duo “Isas-Kwiek” that was presented at the “48th Septiembre Musical Tucumano” festival in 2008. Since then, the duo has had an uninterrupted activity giving particular attention to Argentine repertoire and female composers, in addition to the regular repertoire such as L. v. Beethoven all ten sonatas that were performed in a single day during a marathon musical experience at the CCK in 2017.
In October 2008 the duo was awarded the first prize in the chamber music contest held by Argentmusica and the first prize of the “Young Performers of the Bicentennial” contest organized by the National Fund for the Arts in 2010.
Under the “Virtuoso Records” label the duo released his album “Debut” available on Spotify, which has had an excellent impact on Argentine specialized critics and in France in the cultural magazine “Revue de deux mondes”. The duo has performed the traditional repertoire and spread the Argentine repertoire in Italy, Spain, Netherlands, France and Brazil. In 2022, the group received the “Consecration” award given by the Argentina National Radio due to its musical career, offering innovative repertoire for more than a decade.
In 2023, with the Entre Ríos Symphony Orchestra conducted by Luis Gorelik, Alan Kwiek performed W. A. Mozart piano concerto No. 23.
Later he toured Santa Fe, Entre Ríos and San Juan with the “Tempo Quartet” performing works by Brahms and the premiere of the quartet “Hedy Crilla” by the Argentine composer Lucio B. Videla. Next, he performed in Córdoba with the clarinettist Mariano Rey and the violinist Cecilia Isas. On this occasion they premiered (in Córdoba) the G. Menotti’s trio. In August 2023, he performed “Les Noces” by I. Stravinsky together with Martha Argerich at the Colón Theatre, under the baton on Charles Dutoit.
In 2024 he performed at the Teatro Argentino in La Plata, playing concertos for 3 and 4 pianos by J. S. Bach.
In 2025 he will make his debut at the Palau de la Música in Barcelona with Martha Argerich, performing the concerto for 2 pianos and orchestra by F. Poulenc.