One of the most versatile musicians of the present day working in the classical music scene in Peru, his native country, Pablo has conducted orchestras in South and North America, Europe and Asia. He has collaborated with an impressive list of first-class soloists such as Gil Shaham, Joaquin Achúcarro, Jorge Luis Prats, Valentina Lisitsa, Andrei Gavrilov, Sarah Chang, Nicola Benedetti, Lukas Vondracek, Philip Setzer, Lawrence Dutton, Maurice Hasson, Leticia Moreno, Ray Chen, Evgenia Rubinova, Alina Pogostkina, Natasha Paremski, Zuill Bailey, and Sasha Rozhdestvensky, among others.

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The last years have witnessed the National Youth Symphony Orchestra "Bicentenario" of Peru emerging as a major symphonic ensemble under the leadership of Pablo together with an excellent staff of instructors. The orchestra has already performed together with such distinguished musicians as Gil Shaham, Joaquín Achúcarro, Andrei Gavrilov, NIcola Benedetti, Sarah Chang, Anna Netrebko, Elīna Garanča, among others. As a pianist, Pablo has been a soloist with orchestras in South America, Europe and Asia, including the National Symphony Orchestra of Peru. He has performed piano solo, chamber music and art song recitals in Peru, Venezuela, Colombia, Trinidad & Tobago, Mexico, United States, Spain, Austria, Poland and Russia. In the last years, Pablo performed several recitals in Lima in commemoration of composers Gustav Mahler, Franz Liszt and Claude Debussy. He presented the complete Lieder cycles of Mahler with distinguished Peruvian singers, and gave the Peruvian premieres of the complete piano cycle “Anneés de Pèlerinage” (Years of Pilgrimage) by Liszt, and of Books I and II of the complete Préludes for piano by Debussy. As soloist, he has collaborated with conductors such as Carlos Miguel Prieto, Enrique Arturo Diemecke y Mario Benzecry, among others. He succesfully completed a concert tour in Poland, where he played two piano recitals and conducted the symphony orchestras of Kielce and Olsztyn, where he also performed as piano soloist in the same concert. In February 2020 Pablo began to perform the complete cycle of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas in commemoration of the 250 anniversary of the composer's birth but this project was curtailed by the world pandemics. He is the first Peruvian pianist to tackle such endeavour, which he resumed in February 2023, and finished in March 2024 in eight recitals presented by the Sociedad Filarmónica de Lima, to great acclaim.

 

Between 2003 and 2006 he was Associate Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Peru. In this capacity he lead an important number of concerts in a broad repertoire covering from the Baroque to the Contemporary periods. In 2006 Pablo was asked by the

National Director of the National Institute of Culture of Peru to start and conduct the National Chamber Orchestra, an ensemble devoted to training young and gifted musicians. They performed concerts at different venues in Lima, including the Presidential Palace with

the President and First Lady in attendance. He was also Artistic Director of the Orquesta de la Ciudad de los Reyes, a former outstanding symphonic ensemble comprised of the best players in Lima. He performs regularly with the National Symphony Orchestra of Peru. It was with this orchestra that he conducted the Peruvian premieres of Mahler’s 7th symphony and Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben.  The same interest in the education of young performers that Pablo showed in creating the National Chamber Orchestra took him to accept the invitation in 2010 to become Artistic Director and Conductor of the National Youth Symphony Orchestra "Bicentenario", (OSNJB) one of the six official artistic ensembles of the Ministery of Culture of Peru. The OSNJB gathers young musicians that receive a demanding instruction in orchestral repertoire and chamber music as well, preparing them for a professional life as musicians. It was with this orchestra that Pablo inaugurated the first ever and second Opera Seasons of the Ministery of Culture with Mozart's Nozze di Figaro and Die Zauberflöte. The OSNJB has premiered in Peru works such as Britten's Serenade for tenor, horn and strings, Rautavaara's Concerto for Flutes ("Dances with winds"), Bernstein's 2nd Symphony ("Age of Anxiety"), Bruckner's 9th Symphony and Beethoven's Meerestille und Glückliche Fahrt (with the National Choir of Peru). At the Gran Teatro Nacional in LIma, the OSNJB under Pablo's baton presented the fiendishly difficult Symphonies No. 2 and 5 of  Gustav Mahler and Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, the first time a youth orchestra performed those works in Peru.

 

Between 2012  and 2017, Pablo was also Music Director of the Arequipa Symphony Orchestra in Peru. The ensemble quickly gained outstanding regional reputation thanks to his leadership, after many years of limited activity. A measure of the success of the process of rebuilding the orchestra was the acclaimed complete Beethoven cycle (which included the nine symphonies and piano concerti Nos. 1 to 3 conducted by Pablo from the keyboard), performed in Arequipa throughout 2013. He conducted Beethoven’s Ninth at the Gran Teatro Nacional in Lima with the combined forces of the OSNJB and the Arequipa orchestra to great audience acclaim, the first time a national and a regional symphonic ensemble performed together in the country.

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Pablo began his musical studies in his natal city, Lima. He received a B.M. Cum Laude in Piano Performance at the Instituto Universitario de Estudios Musicales in Caracas (the college-level institution at the renowned El Sistema, in Venezuela), where he also took Conducting, Chamber Music and Harpsichord. After winning the 1995 Westminster Keyboard Competition, he became a full scholarship student of Ena Bronstein, a former disciple of Claudio Arrau, at the Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey. Pablo also took Accompanying lessons with Dalton Baldwin and Glenn Parker. In this college he received his first Master of Music degree with Distinction in Piano Performance. Thanks to a fellowship from the Organization of American States, he completed a second Master of Musid degree in Orchestral Conducting as a student of Harold Farberman at the Hartt School of Music of the University of Hartford. He has also worked subsequently with Gustav Meier, Leon Botstein, and Apo Hsu, among others.

 

Pablo currently lives in Lima with his wife Monica and their daughter, Veronica. He is also a professor of  Piano and Instrumental Conducting at the National University of Music of Peru and at the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas. He recently acted as member of the panel of adjudicators of the Concerto Competition of the Busan Maru International Music Festival in Busan, South Korea.