These concerts are the North Carolina Symphony debut for Jorge Federico Osorio.

Recipient of the Medalla Bellas Artes, the highest honor granted by Mexico’s National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature, Jorge Federico Osorio has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras and has collaborated with such conductors as Marin Alsop, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, James Conlon, Bernard Haitink, Manfred Honeck, Lorin Maazel, Ken-David Masur, Jorge Mester, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Robert Spano, and Jaap van Zweden, among others. He has performed at venues including Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, London’s Royal Festival Hall, and Leipzig Gewandhaus.

Osorio has appeared on the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Symphony Center Presents Piano Series on four occasions. He has also given two recitals in New York City at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, both highly acclaimed by Allan Kozinn of The New York Times. North American festival appearances have included the Hollywood Bowl, Mainly Mozart, Bard Music Festival, Grant Park Music Festival, and Ravinia Festival, where he performed all five Beethoven Concertos with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Osorio has documented a wide variety of repertoire. Orchestral recordings include Beethoven’s five piano concertos and Choral Fantasy; both Brahms concertos; and concertos by Chávez, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Rodrigo, Schumann, Tchaikovsky, and Weinberg. Solo recordings include Final Thoughts – The Last Piano Works of Schubert & Brahms; Russian Recital; Salón Mexicano; a disc of music by Ponce; a set of Debussy and Liszt; Piano Español; The French Album; and the recent Conciertos románticos, featuring concertos by Ponce and Castro, conducted by Carlos Miguel Prieto with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería.