JOSÉ R. LÓPEZ is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Keyboard Department at Florida International University in Miami, Florida and has been on the piano faculty since 1997. He has performed throughout the United States, Italy and Central and South America with orchestras, solo recitals, and chamber groups in concert halls, summer festivals such as the Music Festival of the Hamptons in New York and the Killington Music Festival in Vermont. Active throughout South Florida, he has been a featured performer in the Florida International University’s Music Festival; ISCM New Music Miami Festival, the Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival, Coral Gables’ Mainly Mozart Series, University of Miami’s Miami Festival, and in the Deering Estate at Cutler’s “Living Artist Concert Series.” Recent activities have included performances through villages around Lake Como, Italy for the International Convention on 12-tone music and a paper on piano works by Riccardo Malipiero to be published in 2010 as part of the proceedings at the Villa Vigoni German/Italian Center.  He is currently the FIU Chapter President of the American Liszt Society.

A versatile pianist and enthusiastic performer of chamber music, José was a founding member of the Dalbergi Trio, has collaborated as a member of FIU’s resident new music ensemble, the Nodus Ensemble, and was the orchestral pianist with the Florida Philharmonic for 13 years. José is currently active performing and recording new and old obscure works for piano and strings along with solo piano works. His interests in contemporary music feature frequent world premieres and collaborations with composers along with his pursuit in resurrecting rarely heard works by Romantic and Classical composers. Dr. López received his MM and DMA degrees from the University of Miami School of Music, where he studied with Dr. Rosalina Sackstein, a former pupil of Claudio Arrau and Isabelle Vengerova. He has recorded for SNE, Albany and Innova record labels.