Llewellyn sanchez werner biography of michaels

  • A California-born New Yorker, Llewellyn began his first college degree at age 5, and at age 6 began performing regularly with orchestras.
  • Llewellyn made Juilliard history at age 14 as the youngest-ever admittee to the College Division.
  • Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner has been lauded as “poetic, electrifying,” (Michigan Live) with “masterful technique,”.

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    An Interview with Pianist Llewellyn Sánchez-Werner

    Richard Wargo: Greetings, Llewellyn! It was an honor to have you at The Sembrich this past summer to open our Masterworks Series on July 1, 2023. As I recall, you joined us at what was the start of a very busy summer season for you. Can you share with The Sembrich community some of what you’ve been up to since July?

    Llewellyn Sánchez-Werner: Believe me, the honor was truly mine to join you, Richard, and find solace in the breathtaking surroundings of The Sembrich. Absolutely, I’ve been busy making music! Immediately following my performance with you, I had nine concerts as an Artist-in-Residence at the storied Newport Music Festival. Following a Mozart Concerto with the Rochester Philharmonic, for which I composed my own cadenza, I then performed recitals in Philadelphia, Nantucket, the Hamptons, Scranton, NYU, the MET Museum in NYC, and 12 eclectic concerts in Brooklyn (more on that later). Most recently, I shared th

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    Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner

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    At just 18 years-old, Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner was named the 2014 Gilmore Young Artist, an honor awarded every two years singling out the most promising American pianists of the new generation. He received the Atlantic Council’s 2014 Young Global Citizen Award, along with fellow recipients Robert dem Niro, Prime Ministers Shimon Peres and Lee Kuan Yew, and Presidents Enrique Pena Nieto and Petro Poroshenko.

    Llewellyn made Juilliard history at age 14 as the youngest-ever admittee to the College Division. In 2009, he performed solo at the White House for President Obama; and in 2013, for the Presidential Inauguration concert at the Kennedy Center.

    In 2010, he was the first American soloist to perform in Iraq with the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra for an international audience of diplomats, US soldiers, and Iraqis of all ages (Gershwin and Grieg Concerti). The concert raised funds to support the Children’s Cancer Hospital and celebrated World Day f

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    “A gifted virtuoso” (San Francisco Chronicle) with “mesmerizing artistry and extraordinary ability to communicate” (The Post-Standard), “poetic, electrifying” (Michigan Live) with “masterful technique and a veritable deluge of sonorities” (La Presse Montreal), 27-year-old Mexican-American Llewellyn Sánchez-Werner was selected First Prize Winner of the 2022 Concert Artists Guild International Competition. Named a Gilmore Young Artist, an honor awarded to the most promising American pianists of the new generation, his multi-faceted artistry has been featured in the New York Times, CBS, PBS, NPR, CNN International, Mexico News daglig, the Wall Street Journal, and WDR-Arte.

    Llewellyn’s recent international performances include The Royal Concertgebouw in the Netherlands, CultureSummit Abu Dhabi, the Louvre and Grenoble Museums in France, Smetana Hall in the Czech Republic, State Philharmonic Hall in Slovakia, Verbier Festival in Switzerland, Ashford Castle in Ireland, Gijon Internationa