Music Education
Miguel Brito was born in Puebla, Mexico, in July 23, 1978 and started receiving piano instruction at the age of 10 from Profesor Clemente Romero-Campos at the Music School of the Autonomous University of Puebla.
At age seventeen he got admitted to the junior department from Trinity College of Music in London, England, where he received lessons from professor Christopher Caine. During his studies in this college Miguel obtained the Trinity College Performer's Certificate.
From 1996 to 1997, while Miguel was studying the bachelor's degree in Physics he continued taking piano lessons from the Mexican Concert-Pianist Mauricio Náder in Mexico City. In this year Miguel obtained the third place in the Edvard Grieg National Piano Competition .
Miguel earned a Bachelor degree in Music Performance from the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston, in Texas where he studied under the supervision of Piano Profesor Mrs. Nancy D. Weems , and graduated Cum laude in December 2001.
After his studies in Texas, Miguel went back to Mexico and worked as a piano professor at the Music School of the Autonomous University of Puebla and at the Pacelli University of Music, also in Puebla.
In the year 2005, Miguel graduated with an Advanced Music Degree from the Rotterdams Conservatorium, in the Netherlands, where he was a student of Maestro Aquiles delle-Vigne.
Miguel now lives and works in Puebla as piano teacher at the Pacelli University of Music, at his home studio and works widely as an accompanist also performing solo recitals in the region.
Awards and Prizes
Miguel is currently a recipient of the Performers National Grant from Mexico’s National Fund for the Arts (FONCA). He was awarded third place in the Third National “Edvard Grieg” Piano Competition in 1997, celebrated in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, third place at the Fourth Mexicali Piano Biennial celebrated in Baja California (2006) and was the winner of the Second “Filiberto Ramirez Franco” Piano Competition celebrated in may 2006 in Mexico City. Awarded a special mention at the 2007 Bartók-Kabalevsky-Prokofiev International piano competition, which took place in Sicily, Italy. Miguel has been recently choosen by the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada and the FONCA to take part in a Residence Program in Banff at the end of 2008.