| Orlando
Otey was recognized as a child prodigy and toured Mexico at age 5.
He toured Spain, France and England by age 7. |
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| Orlando
Otey, born on February 1, 1925, performed his first
concert at age 4. |
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| When he was just 14 he had
composed his first piano concerto, already having completed a list of
compositions.
At the age of 15 while on tour
in Mexico giving programs of his own compositions that included
several mazurkas, nocturnes and etudes, Otey was heralded as The
Chopin of Mexico by critics and the press. Not only
was his playing of Romantic music remarkable, his own works were
taken by many to be compositions of Chopin, some critics
quipping they were works that Chopin forgot to write.
By age 17 he had he had become
the youngest faculty member at the University of Mexico teaching
piano and composition.
He lead the Grupo Coral de Los Cursos Nocturnos at the Bellas Artes
in Mexico City in 1944 (age 19).
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Excélsior Newspaper on May 27, 1946
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| "Mexico
has the honor to have the youngest pianist in the
world"
EL NACIONAL (1929) |
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".. this young man
is a very talented and fine composer."
THE BACH FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION
(1946)To the right is the
first page of Orlando Otey's
Sonata
Tenochtitlán
completed in 1948 |
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