Instrumentalist - Piano
About
| Called a "pianist's pianist" by The New Yorker, Cecile Licad's artistry is a blend of daring musical instinct and the superb training. Her natural talent was honed at the Curtis Institute of Music by three of the greatest performer/pedagogues of our time: Rudolf Serkin, Seymour Lipkin and Mieczyslaw Horszowski. Licad's large repertoire as an orchestral soloist ranges from acclaimed interpretations of the Classical works of Mozart and Beethoven to the Romantic literature of Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Schumann and Rachmaninoff to the 20th century compositions of Debussy, Ravel, Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Bartok. |
Latest Acclaim
"The performance itself fulfilled every expectation of Licad's legendary musicianship. Having heard her several times over the past 30 years, I was astonished by the continuing freshness and almost childlike wonder of her musical inspiration, coupled with one of the most dazzlingly expressive sets of fingers on this planet." — Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
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| Posted: Sep-28-2009 |
Latest Recordings
 Cecile Licad may have been groomed under Rudolf Serkin's exacting tutelage, but her visceral, exuberant Gottschalk playing evokes Vladimir Horowitz's diabolical art. It's not just speed and accuracy that Licad brings to the impossible repeated notes in Le banjo or Tremolo, but also impulsive dynamic surges and fustian drama. Her nimble, skywritten runs in La jota aragonesa simply take your breath away, as do her exquisitely shaped soft chords. For all of Licad's affetuoso teasing in The Dying... |
| Posted: May-1-2003 |
Latest Video
| Posted: Sep-1-2009 |