CREATIO EX NIHILO | Gabriela Montero

Gabriela Montero at Prager | Season 5, Concert 2 CREATIO EX NIHILO | Gabriela Montero Sat, Oct 17 | Prager Family Center for the Arts Doors open at 7:00 PM | Concert begins at 7:30 PM Gabriela Montero, piano | Venezuela Creating from nothing is Gabriela Montero's speciality. In this improvisation-focused recital, she spins real-time compositions around a selection of classical works. Time & Place Sat, Oct 17, 2026, 7:30 PM Prager Family Center for the Arts, 17 S Washington St, Easton, MD 21601, USA About the Artists Gabriela Montero 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.” Recipient of the 2018 Heidelberger Frühling Music Prize, Montero’s recent and forthcoming highlights include debut invitations to perform with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, New World Symphony, New Zealand Symphony, and the Orchestre National de France; an extensive European tour with the City of Birmingham Symphony and Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla; residencies with the Sao Paolo, Prague Radio, and Basel symphonies, as well as regular appearances at the National Arts Centre of Canada where she was appointed Creative Partner to the organisation for four years from the 2020-2021 season. The 2022-2023 season sees the launch of two major, artist-driven initiatives; Gabriela Montero at Prager, a new ongoing artistic residency established at the Prager Family Center for the Arts in Easton, Maryland, and the Gabriela Montero Piano Lab, a mentorship program in partnership with global music conservatory OAcademy. Montero also makes venue debuts in Paris at the Seine Musicale and at the Philharmonie, the latter featuring the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony and Marin Alsop. Montero also re-joins forces with Alsop for performances of her “Latin” Concerto with the Chicago Symphony at the Ravinia Festival and the Dallas Symphony, while bringing her 2018 composition Babel to the Oregon Symphony. Other recent performances of the “Latin” Concerto have been given with the Orchestra of the Americas on tour at the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Edinburgh Festival, Carnegie Hall, and the New World Center in Miami, Florida. Celebrated for her exceptional musicality and ability to improvise, Montero has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras to date, including: the New York, Royal Liverpool, Rotterdam, Dresden, Oslo, Vienna Radio, and Netherlands Radio philharmonic orchestras; the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Zürcher Kammerorchester, and Academy of St Martin in the Fields; and the Yomiuri Nippon, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Houston, Atlanta, Toronto, Baltimore, Vienna, Barcelona, Lucerne, and Sydney…