ABDIEL VÁZQUEZ is a New York-based conductor and pianist, born and raised in Mexico and widely regarded as one of the most versatile musicians in the classical music world for his work as a symphonic and operatic conductor, his solo piano recitals and recordings, his performances as a soloist with orchestra, his collaborations with internationally renowned singers, and his work as an educator worldwide.

Vázquez is a Steinway Artist, Founder and Artistic Director of the Philharmonic Orchestra La Súper in Monterrey, Mexico, Founder and Artistic Director of Vincerò Academy, a global mentorship platform connecting young singers from around the world with today’s greatest opera singers and coaches, and Co-Founder of the International Music Theater Academy, which connects students with the leading figures in the Broadway industry.

Abdiel has performed as a conductor or pianist at major international venues such as New York’s Carnegie Hall, the Chicago Cultural Center, London’s Guildhall, Buenos Aires’ Teatro Colón, Lima’s Gran Teatro Nacional, Mexico City’s Palacio de Bellas Artes, Guanajuato’s International Cervantino Festival, Monterrey’s Arena, and with the Simón Bolivar Symphony Orchestra in Caracas. Other cultural capitals include Paris, Madrid, Tokyo, Shanghai, Bogotá, and Viña del Mar.

Vázquez is the host of the podcast Maestro in Tune.

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PIANIST

He has appeared more than a hundred times as a soloist with orchestra playing the concertos and works for piano and orchestra of Beethoven, Liszt, Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Gershwin, Ravel, de Falla, Ricardo Castro and Leonard Bernstein. He performed the Mexican premiere of Samuel Barber’s Piano Concerto, the New York premiere, at Carnegie Hall, of Ponce’s Piano Concerto, and the world premiere of the Piano Concerto “The Sun Pyramid” by Juan Pablo Contreras, with the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico and later with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela.

Abdiel is one of the few musicians in the world who regularly plays and conducts from the piano, having performed in this way in multiple occasions Beethoven’s Piano Concertos, Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F and Rhapsody in Blue, Manuel M. Ponce’s Piano Concerto, and Arturo Márquez’s Danzón No. 2.

Abdiel’s first solo album, Love & Death with music by Wagner and Verdi, was released by Piano Classics in 2015 to rave international reviews. In 2021 he launched his second solo album, In the Silent Night, with music by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff.

He is also a featured soloist with the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra in the acclaimed album Mariachitlán with music by Juan Pablo Contreras, which was released by Universal Music in 2019 and received a Latin GRAMMY® nomination. These three recordings along with his podcast are available in all the major streaming platforms.

Ever since winning the President’s National Youth Award and the National Piano Competition Angélica Morales-Yamaha in 2006, and later the International José Jacinto Cuevas and Manuel Ponce Piano Competitions in 2010, Abdiel positioned himself as one of the leading pianists in Mexico and Latin America. In October of 2013 he won The World Competition - the first classical music competition ever to take place online - and in September 2018 he won the WPTA International Piano Competition in Argentina.

In November of 2020 he was officially named a Steinway Artist by Steinway & Sons.

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CONDUCTOR

Vázquez made his conducting debut in 2009 and has guest conducted at Teatro Colón, Carnegie Hall, and Palacio de Bellas Artes. In September of 2020, he became the founder and first Artistic Director of the Philharmonic Orchestra La Súper in Monterrey, Mexico.

The inaugural concert of La Súper took place in October 2021 at the International Santa Lucía Festival, where they performed an homage to Moncayo for almost 10,000 people, and since then they have presented similar concerts every year at this festival, on top of their regular seasons.

Among the guest soloists of La Súper are the singers Javier Camarena, Elīna Garanča, Ailyn Pérez, and Concha Buika, the chelist Santiago Cañón-Valencia, the pianist Oxana Yablonskaya, and the singer and composer Danny Elfman.

They have presented symphony cycles of Beethoven, Brahms, and Tchaikovsky, three world premieres, and a national competition for instrumentalists.

Visit La Súper’s website: www.lasuperorquesta.com

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OPERA AND VOICE

Abdiel regularly shares the stage with internationally acclaimed singers. He has collaborated as a conductor or pianist with household names in opera such as Ailyn Pérez, Elīna Garanča, Javier Camarena, Kristine Opolais, Michael Chioldi, Joshua Guerrero, and María Katzarava, as well as Broadway star Meghan Picerno, and Hispanic pop icons Susana Zabaleta and Concha Buika. 

For more than two decades Abdiel has collaborated with opera companies in Mexico, the U.S., and Europe. He has conducted The Magic Flute, Don Giovanni, Le Nozze di Figaro, Lucia di Lammermoor, Hansel and Gretel, Simon Boccanegra and Dialogues of the Carmelites, and he has been assistant conductor and pianist for productions of Carmen, La Bohème, Tosca, La Traviata, La Cenerentola, Roméo et Juliette, La Voix Humaine, and most recently Pelléas et Mélisande at The Dallas Opera.

Founded in September of 2020 by Abdiel, Vincerò Academy has embraced more than 100 students from 24 different countries, it has presented four performances at Carnegie Hall with Abdiel at the piano, and full productions of Don Giovanni and Le Nozze di Figaro in Mazatlán, Mexico, with Abdiel at the podium.

Visit Vincerò Academy’s website: www.vinceroacademy.com

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EDUCATION

Abdiel holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Escuela Superior de Música y Danza in Monterrey, Mexico, and a Master’s Degree from Manhattan School of Music. His piano teachers were Gerardo González, James Tocco, and Oxana Yablonskaya.

For years he also played in the voice studios of Mignon Dunn, Trish McCaffrey, Catherine Malfitano, and Mark Oswald in New York City. He also studied opera conducting and accompaniment with Howard Watkins and John Keenan from the Metropolitan Opera.

His conducting teachers were Enrique Diemecke and David Gilbert.