Viviana Guzmán's Biography
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"Guzmán may be the first flutist since her teachers, Jean-Pierre Rampal and
James Galway, to be able to establish a sustaining solo career."
"The Music of Passion: from Tango to Flamenco" was from beginning to end,
alluring, exotic, an auditory balm. Guzman on flute stretches the soul and
never leaves the memory.
Pacifica Tribune
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"Wow, wow and triple wow! A magical night it was in Berkeley . . . and the
flute selections! Now that was truly an evening of talent, beauty,
entertainment and fun."
Kenneth Logan WALX Radio, Berkeley, CA
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"Guzmán's performance was a virtuoso tour de force, executed with the most extraordinary ease."
"Engaging command of any flutelike instrument."
"Your music is celestial!"
"A very gifted artist; I am enjoying your album very much. "
"An imaginative artist."
Described by the New York Times as "an imaginative artist," Chilean-born flutist, Viviana Guzmán performs over 80 concerts a year throughout the world and has performed in 56 countries. By the age of 15, she played as a soloist with an orchestra, studied with Jean-Pierre Rampal and was featured on NBC's nationally televised John Denver music special. She has since appeared as soloist with orchestras in Russia, Chile, Wisconsin, Montana, Vermont, California, Houston, and in New York City's Alice Tully Hall and also has performed in Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall.
Ms.
Guzmán has been heard on NPR's "Morning Edition",
NPR's "West Coast
Live", PBS, the New York radio station, WNYC, as well as on KUSC
in Los
Angeles, KPFA, and KDFC in San Francisco, among others. On television,
she
has appeared in the United States and Latin America including "Good
Day New
York", "Good Morning Arizona", "Good Morning Houston",
"Sabado Gigante",
"Datebook", San Jose, "BayTV", San Francisco;
more recently, the premiere
of her music video was aired on television internationally in 31 countries
on UNIVISION and Arts Showcase Network.
A prolific recording artist, she has recorded with Polygram, National Geographic, and Sugo labels include the following titles: "Telemann Flute Fantasies" (1996), "Planet Flute" (1997), "Tranquility" (1999) {deemed by Oprah as "Best Morning Music"}, "Danza de Amor", (2000) has sold over 40,000 units, "Mostly Tango" (2002), "Serenity", (2002). Of her classical CD, "Telemann Flute Fantasies", Bonnie Grice of KUSC-LA said, "It is a wonderful album, it has gotten a lot of great response...it's magic. She is a bright young flutist, a delightful musician."
A winner of the 1991 Young Artists Auditions of Artists International, Ms. Guzmán gave her New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall. Other First Prizes in competitions include the New York Flute Club Competition, Five Towns Music and Arts Foundation and the Performer's of Connecticut Young Artists Competition, Shepherd Society Competition. As an orchestral musician, she has been played with the Texas Opera Theater Orchestra, Mikhail Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Project, and the Broadway musical, "Sunset Boulevard" with Glenn Close. As a member of the Houston Grand Opera, she accompanied Placido Domingo, and with the New World Symphony in Miami she played under Michael Tilson Thomas.
She
has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Lincoln Center
Scholarship, Institute of Hispanic culture Award, Shepherd Award,
Immanuel Olshan Award, General Maurice Hirsch Award, Phillips Foundation
Award, Ruth Burr Award. Ms. Guzmán attended Rice University
on fellowship first with an emphasis on medicine; subsequently, she chose
music as her career path and attended the Juilliard School on scholarship.
A frequent performer for both Seabourn and Cunard Cruise Lines,
she has participated in the Aspen, Banff, Marlboro and Caramoor Music
Festivals and has studied with Albert Tipton, James Galway, Jean-Pierre
Rampal and Julius Baker. She has presented workshops and master
classes at the San Francisco Conservatory,
Juilliard School, University of Mississippi, Wright State University,
Rick's College, Stanford University, Esalen Institute, Humbolt
State University, Hamilton College, among others.
As
an author/poet, she has been published by Simon and Schuster and
has a
book of Poetry entitled, "Love Soliloquies". Currently,
Ms. Guzmán concertizes as a solo artist, with the guitars and flute
quartet, "Festival
of Four", and "Performers
of the World", a sultry world music ensemble that performs
"The Music of Passion: from Tango to Flamenco".
Viviana
has many fans worldwide including Kate Winslet who said, "I
LOVE your music, it's truly beautiful!" and Isabel Allende
declared, "Your music
is celestial!"
