Career
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1948, Alberto Reyes started piano studies at the age of six with Sarah Bourdillon a pupil of Alfred Cortot"s Ecole Normale de Musique, and played his first public recital at the age of eight. During his teens, he made many appearances in recital an as orchestral soloist in Uruguay, Argentina, and Brazil. He made his debut with the Uruguayan Symphony Orchestra (SODRE) at thirteen.
In 1971, as a laureate of the Leventritt Competition in the United States, Reyes made his first North American tour.
The following year, he became the first Uruguayan pianist to tour the former Soviet Union as laureate of the 1970 Tchaikovsky Competition. Reyes made his New York orchestral debut in 1974 at the Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center, and his New York recital debut at the Kaufmann Concert Hall of the 92nd Street Y, presented by the America"s Society.
Two of those transcriptions, Salve Maria from I Lombardi and Simon Boccanegra were the object of piracy in the notorious Joyce Hatto recording scandal. In October 2009, VAI Audio released Alberto Reyes"s recording of the two Chopin Sonatas and other major works, and in October 2010, VAI Audio released Alberto Reyes plays Schumann Reyes also toured in Canada.
