Gabriela Montero’s visionary interpretations and unique compositional gifts have garnered her critical acclaim and a devoted following on the world stage. Anthony Tommasini remarked in The New York Times that »Montero’s playing had everything: crackling rhythmic brio, subtle shadings, steely power…soulful lyricism…unsentimental expressivity.«

Montero’s 2023/2024 season features performances of her own »Latin Concerto« on an extensive US tour. With the National Arts Centre Orchestra, she continues a flourishing four-year Creative Partnership through 2025. In May 2024, Montero also made her highly anticipated return to Los Angeles to work with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and Jaime Martín. Montero’s other recent highlights include a European tour with the City of Birmingham Symphony and Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, as well as debuts with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, Orchestre National de France. She had residencies with the Sao Paolo Symphony, Prague Radio Symphony, and at the (partially COVID-disrupted) Rheingau Festival.

Celebrated for her exceptional musicality and ability to improvise, Montero has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras. A graduate and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in London, Montero is also a frequent recitalist and chamber musician, having given concerts at such distinguished venues as the Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall and many others.

An award-winning and bestselling recording artist, her most recent album (2019) features her own »Latin« Concerto and Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major. Her first orchestral composition, »Ex Patria«, earned Montero her first Latin Grammy® for Best Classical Album. She garnered two Echo Klassik Awards: the 2006 Keyboard Instrumentalist of the Year and 2007 Award for Classical Music without Borders.

Winner of the 4th International Beethoven Award of the Beethoven Academy, Montero is a committed advocate for human rights, whose voice regularly reaches beyond the concert hall. She was named an Honorary Consul by Amnesty International in 2015 and recognised with Outstanding Work in the Field of Human Rights by the Human Rights Foundation for her ongoing commitment to human rights advocacy in Venezuela. In January 2020, she was invited to give the Dean’s Lecture at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute and has spoken and performed twice at the World Economic Forum in Davos. She was also awarded the 2012 Rockefeller Award for her contribution to the arts and was a featured performer at Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential Inauguration.

Born in Venezuela, Montero started her piano studies at age four, making her concerto debut at age eight in her hometown of Caracas. This led to a scholarship from the government to study privately in the USA and then at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Hamish Milne.