Born in Uruguay and living in New York City since 1976, Pablo Zinger is
widely known as a conductor, pianist, writer and expert on Spanish and
Latin-American Music.
His critically acclaimed CD's include Tango Apasionado with Astor
Piazzolla, Las Puertas de la Mañana (songs of Carlos Guastavino), two
volumes of music by Carlos Suriñach; with Paquito D’Rivera, Chamber
Music from the South and the Grammy nominated The clarinetist. His
latest is Cuando se quiere de veras, a compilation of Latin songs with
tenor Francisco Casanova.
As a member of the trio Triángulo, he has toured the U.S., Brasil, South
Africa, Germany, Puerto Rico, Norway and Slovenia and arranged the music
for the CD Tango Dreams, featuring the music of Astor Piazzolla and
Carlos Gardel. He has also created and conducted the show Tiempo de
Tango with NYC’s Teatro Círculo. In January ‘05 he conducted the closing
segment of Paquito D’Rivera’s 50th. Anniversary concert at Carnegie Hall.
Mr. Zinger is considered the pre-eminent conductor of zarzuela in the
U.S. As Musical Director of The Sunday Afternoon Opera Series at New
York’s Town Hall, he conducted Piazzolla’s María de Buenos Aires and the
U.S. premiere of Pueblo Joven, as well as Lecuona’s María la O, Roig’s
Cecilia Valdés and Barbieri’s El barberillo de Lavapiés. In October ‘04
he conducted Luisa Fernanda for the opening season of the National
Hispanic Cultural Center’s Roy E. Disney Auditorium in Albuquerque, NM.
He has also conducted zarzuela with the Spanish Repertory Theatre
(1980-1994), Orlando Opera, the Zarzuela Company Domingo-Embil (Mexico) the International Zarzuela Festival (El Paso), the Jarvis Conservatory (Napa), and Santa Barbara Grand Opera. His La Verbena de la Paloma (El Paso,‘96) was seen nationally on PBS and his Luisa Fernanda (Napa, ‘97) is available on video, DVD and CD.
Other conducting credits include the Costa Rica National Symphony, the
Simón Bolívar Orchestra (Venezuela), the Maribor Philharmonic (Slovenia), the Cosmopolitan Symphony Orchestra (NYC), the Montevideo Philharmonic and Montevideo Pro Opera (Uruguay) and the Bronx Arts Ensemble with Jazz greats Tito Puente, Dave Valentin, Néstor Torres and
John Faddis.
As Musical Director of New York’s Polish Theatre Institute, Mr. Zinger has conducted numerous Polish operas, concerts and cabaret presentations throughout the U.S. and in three tours of Poland.
He has written for The New York Times, Opera News, Guitar Review and
Classical Singer, and has lectured for The New York Philharmonic.
Mr. Zinger holds a Bachelor of Music and Master of Music Degrees from
Manhattan School of Music, where he studied piano with Zenon Fishbein. |
