Pianist Christopher Guzman enjoys an international performing career, performing in various styles from the Baroque era to the avant-garde. Since winning top prizes in international competitions such as the Walter M. Naumburg Competition (USA), the Seoul International Music Competition (S. Korea), the Isang Yun Competition (S. Korea), and the Concours International de Piano d’Orléans (France), Mr. Guzman has performed across Europe, North and South America, and Asia. He has appeared in concert in major international venues such as Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, Leipzig’s Gewandhaus, Buenos Aires’s CCK, Carnegie’s Weill Hall, and London’s Wigmore Hall. As a chamber musician, he regularly performs with members of the world’s finest orchestras, including the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, and the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. He joined Chicago’s Grant Park Symphony Orchestra in 2024 as pianist and organist.
Much of his career centers on music written after 1900, and his performances include world premieres by Donald Martino, Nico Muhly, and Paul Schoenfield, among others. The New York Times hailed his performance of Christopher Theofanidis’s Statues as “coiled” and “explosive.”
Mr. Guzman began studying piano at age nine and violoncello two years later. His principal teacher teacher in San Antonio was Kenneth Thompson. He later studied at The Juilliard School, the New England Conservatory, and the University of Texas at Austin. He is now a Professor of Piano at the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University. For more information, please visit christopherguzmanpiano.com.
