René Lecuona

American pianist and teacher; René Lecuona grew up in Corning in the state of New York and studied piano for many years with Laurie Conrad from Ithaca. She took her Bachelor and Master at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music as well as the Doctor of Musical Arts in piano and a Performer’s Certificate at the Eastman School of Music. Her teachers included Menahem Pressler, György Sebök, Edward Auer and Rebecca Penneys. She is professor of piano at the University of Iowa and teaches at the Brevard Festival of Music in North Carolina. She gave her Carnegie Hall debut in the Weill Recital Hall in 1993 with the mezzo-soprano Katherine Eberle. In Indiana she played in the Meridian Trio with the violinist Davis Brooks and the cellist Kurt Fowler. As an Artistic Ambassador of the United States she gave master classes in Argentina, Peru, Ecuador and Trinidad and Tobago. Her recordings have appeared on Albany Records and Innova. In 2002 she recorded New Chamber Music: Works by Hans Gal for Cybele.