Beatriz Balzi

In 1974, Beatriz Balzi took part in lectures about Latin-American contemporary music and became a founding member of the São Paulo New Music Nucleous. She conducted courses on interpretation of contemporary music in several festivals and universities, and was invited to numerous meetings, forums, congresses and festivals of contemporary music in Latin-America. She was also invited by the Music Academy of São Paulo to fill the Luigi Chafarelli Chair.

From 1970 to 1976, Beatriz Balzi collaborated as a professor and performer with the Piracicaba School of Music, interpreting several concerts for piano and orchestra under the conduction of composer Ernst Mahle. In 1976 she was invited by Anna Estela Schic and Michel Philippot to become a member of the music faculty Julio Mesquita Filho at the Paulista University (UNESP), where she gave piano courses that focused mainly on contemporary music. At that time Balzi definitely decided to follow a performer and professoral career and consequently abandoned the musical composition studies.

Balzi emigrated along with her family to Brazil in 1960, and became a Brazilian citizen in 1982. . She performed regularly in important musical centers of Europe, The United States and Latin America; and recorded numerous works of Latin-American composers for radio and television stations in Buenos Aires, Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, Amsterdam, Cologne and Boston.

Beatriz Balzi (Buenos Aires 1936–2001) was a renowned Argentinean pianist, professor and musicologist specialized in contemporary Latin-American music.