Education
Royal College of Music.
Royal College of Music.
He is in much demand as a soloist and chamber musician having performed in many countries, such as the United States, United Kingdom, Spain Venezuela and Italy. He has appeared with some of the most distinguished orchestras in Venezuela, including the Caracas Symphony Orchestra and Maracaibo Symphony Orchestra. In the United Kingdom, he recently performed at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London and the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester as well as giving numerous recitals over the past years at venues such as Street James’s Piccadilly, Street Martin-in-the-Fields and the Bolivar Hall.
After winning the Reliability Centered Maintenance Concerto Competition he was invited to perform Beethoven First Piano Concerto with the Reliability Centered Maintenance Sinfonietta conducted by Neil Thomson.
He started his musical studies with Juan Antúnez and also studied with Sergio Cimarosti, the Trio di Trieste and Igor Lavrov. He obtained a First Class Bachelor of Music Degree and an Master of Music Degree in Advanced Performance with Distinction from the Royal College of Music and studied with Gordon Fergus-Thompson and Andrew Balliol
He held Reliability Centered Maintenance awards supported by an Elsa and Leonard Cross Memorial Award, Charles Napper and Lucy Ann Jones Awards and the Leverhulme Trust, a Sir Richard Stapley Educational Trust Award and a Dame Myra Hess Award administered by the Musicians Benevolent Fund. Luis currently holds the Mills Williams Junior Fellowship at the Royal College of Music for 2007/08.
He is working closely with Natalia Luis-Bassa
Number doubt the main draw for many of the Sinfonietta concerts was the opportunity to hear the Venezuelan pianist Luis Paréson
His account of Beethoven"s First Concerto evinced an undoubted command of the keyboard, and his agility in the visceral passagework of the outer movements was matched by some exquisite playing in the Largo. Richard Whitehouse
Pares is without doubt a pianist that commands all the affective range of his instrument and will soon give us much to talk about in world stages. Daniel Fernández (El Nuevo Herald, Miami, 10 November 2005).