Biography
"...Leticia Gómez-Tagle plays with great earnest and passion. Virtuosity is for her only a means to an end, and not a vehicle for image. In her interpretation one can hear knowledge and respect for the compositions - and maybe a modesty, that make her in an agreeable way, different of other pianists." (Germany, Grenzach-Wyhlen: 2009)
Born in Mexico City, Leticia Gómez-Tagle had her first piano lessons with Prof. Trinidad Ramos. She later studied with the Mexican pianist Manuel Delaflor and pursued music theory with Prof. Angel Esteva Loyola.
By the age of thirteen, she began to perform in different cities of Mexico. She participated in piano master classes by Orlando Otey, Paul Badura-Skoda, Jörg Demus and Gyorgy Sandor.
She won several prizes in national competitions in Mexico, on radio, TV, and at the University of Puebla, as well as in the Sala Chopin competition, for which she was awarded a scholarship to study at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Vienna, Austria.
She attended piano master classes given by Prof. Michael Krist, studying Performance, achieving highest honors in Pedagogy, and receiving her Diploma in 1991. In June 2001, she received her title of Magistra Artium at the University of Music in Vienna.
The Chopin International Competition in Warsaw 1990 puts a start in her international performance career.
Since then she has performed in many different countries and participated in many Music Festivals in Europe and Mexico, where she has been also soloist with the Orquesta Filarmónica de la ciudad de México, Orquesta Sinfónica del I.P.N. and Orquesta Filarmónica de Querétaro, México.
Since 1996 she has been asked to give piano master classes to students at conservatories throughout Spain. Currently, she resides in Vienna and is professor of piano at the School of Music in Linz, Austria.
She is one of the mexican pianists who has put herself in the row of the today's pianists in Europe.
She has recorded for Ionian Productions in USA and Urtextonline in Mexico.
