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After finishing their musical studies in the Conservatory of Music dependent from Barcelona’s Opera House, the Gran Teatre del Liceu, both pianists, Esther and Abraham Tena Manrique, born in Barcelona in 1972 and 1973 who have been teachers in the same Conservatory for more than 4 years now, set off for New York to work alongside great pianists and teachers such as Herbert Stessin, John Bloomfield, Peter Basquin, Julie Jordan, Ubaldo Díaz Acosta, among others. They paid very frequent visits to that city between 1999 and 2002, a period when many letters of recommendation were written in their support, praising them for their great potential and their musical intelligence.
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The current Tena Manrique Piano Duet stems from their determination to unearth a repertoire that is virtually unknown to the great public. Their artistic path started in the Aragonese region, and since its debut in 2006 they have performed in places like Barcelona, Zaragoza, Huesca, Teruel, Logroño, Toledo, Fraga, Ejea de los Caballeros, etc.
Duet member Abraham Tena Manrique also embraced composition, having published 2 volumes of his works (Beethoven Publicacions, 2013). One of the volumes consists of pieces for piano solo and the other of compositions for piano four-hands. Many of these works have been performed in several concerts over the last years, receiving critical praise for the excellence of their composition.
Their duet repertoire usually includes these pieces, which in a way can be considered a sort of personal diary kept by the composer.
Programs
The Tena Manrique Piano Duet has various programs:
Audio
Audio recordings can be found here
Videos
The Tena Manrique Piano Duet performs two different programs, the brother and sister have a repertoire that includes works both by the great names in the history of classical music (Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, Liszt, Debussy, Nietzsche) and by Abraham Tena Manrique himself. Audio recordings exist from the following works: