Biography Highlights
Upcoming & Recent
Abdiel Vázquez's recent and upcoming engagements include Manuel de Falla’s La vida breve and El amor brujo with Ópera de Bellas Artes & Compañía Nacional de Danza, Così fan tutte and Le nozze di Figaro at NYC Teatro La MaMa, Lucia di Lammermoor at Opera in Williamsburg, Carmina Burana at Monterrey Teatro de la Ciudad, Traviata, Le Nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni at Teatro Ángela Peralta, El Sombrero de Tres Picos at Teatro Ocampo. As well as collaborations with the Philharmonic Orchestra La Súper, the Love Academy Orchestra, Flint Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Michoacán, and Orquesta Solistas de América.
Among his recent and upcoming assistant conducting engagements are La leyenda de Rudel, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and Werther for the Compañía Nacional de Ópera de México at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, as well as Salome (recording) with the Orquesta Sinfonica de Mineria, Elektra at Teatro Juárez, Pelléas et Mélisande at Dallas Opera.
Pianist
Steinway Artist. He performed solo recitals at prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall in New York, the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Église Saint-Merry in Paris, the Festival Internacional Cervantino, the Chicago Cultural Center, Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, and Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica.
As a soloist, he has performed concertos by Beethoven, Liszt, Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Gershwin, Ravel, de Falla, Ricardo Castro, and Leonard Bernstein. He premiered Samuel Barber’s Piano Concerto in Mexico, Manuel M. Ponce’s Concierto Romántico in New York’s Carnegie Hall, and gave the world premiere of Juan Pablo Contreras’s Pyramid of the Sun with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional in Mexico and with the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela.
Awards
Recipient of Mexico’s National Youth Award from the President of Mexico at age 21.