Highlights from the 2017/18 Season include concerts with cellist Yo-Yo Ma and violinist Joshua Bell at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. and Lincoln Center in New York; Debuts at the Spoleto Festival, the Lincoln Center Festival and New Docta Festival in Argentina; Latin-American and European tour with Bohemian Trio and The Alonso Brothers.


Cuban born pianist and conductor Orlando Alonso has already established a flourishing international reputation through his orchestral and recital performances in North America, South America and Europe. Noted for his challenging programs, artistic maturity and versatility, his repertoire ranges from Bach, Mozart and Beethoven through the Romantics, Liszt and Brahms, to works by contemporary composers.


Mr. Alonso has performed with many of the major orchestras in Cuba as well as North and South America, including the Santa Clara Symphony, Havana Symphony, Key West Symphony, American Youth Symphony, OSB Orchestra of Rio de Janeiro, National Symphony Orchestra of Brazil, Madrid Symphony, Kiev Symphony Orchestra, Astoria Symphony, Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, George Enescu Symphony Orchestra in Romania and Ossia Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Alonso has given recitals at Carnegie Hall in New York and has performed extensively throughout Europe, North and South America and China.


Winner of the Amadeo Roldan Piano Competition in Havana, the Sant’ Agata li Battiati in Italy, the Frinna Awerbuch International Piano Competition in New York, he was also the recipient of the Harold Bauer Award, the highest honor bestowed upon a graduating student at the Manhattan School of Music.

Orlando Alonso studied with Jorge Luis Prats at the Havana Conservatory, Herbert Stessin at the Juilliard School and with Zenon Fishbein and Horacio Gutierrez at the Manhattan School of Music.


Mr. Alonso studied conducting with Zdenek Macal and Kurt Masur at The Manhattan School of Music. He is the founder of the Ossia Symphony Orchestra and Ensemble LPR in New York, as well as a member of Bohemian Trio and The Alonso Brothers.


Cuban-American pianist Orlay Alonso has been lauded as a “rising young star” and “a real virtuoso” (Anthony Aibel, New York Concert Review). Equally at home with solo, chamber and concerto repertoire, Alonso is “committed to sharing every note with the audience” (Aibel). With his instinctive communicative gifts, Alonso takes the audience along on his imaginative and thought-provoking journey.

Alonso has captivated audiences across the globe with his elegance and intensity since his Carnegie Hall debut in 2003, and has graced the stages at some of the most prestigious concert halls in the United States and Canada, and as far away as Punta Arenas, the southernmost region of Chile.


He has garnered top prizes at numerous national and international piano competitions and obtained his doctorate degree from The Ohio State University in 2015 and holds graduate degrees from Yale University, Mannes, and the Manhattan School of Music. His impressive array of teachers and mentors includes Lilian Kallir, Claude Frank, Horacio Gutiérrez, Juana Zayas and Steven Glaser.

Alonso, who calls Columbus, Ohio home, recently joined the faculty at Capital University’s Conservatory of Music and frequently performs at concert venues across central Ohio. He appears alongside Christopher Purdy as co-host of “Musica Cubana” as part of WOSU Radio’s Music in Mid-Ohio series and has established partnerships with CityMusic Columbus and the Ohio State Chapter of the American Liszt Society.





THE ALONSO BROTHERS PRESENT HAVANESQUE, A COLORFUL CELEBRATION OF CUBAN CLASSICS.

Havanesque is the debut full-length album from Cuban-born piano virtuosos, The Alonso Brothers. To support and promote Havanesque, we are launching a Kickstarter campaign and would greatly appreciate your support.

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