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Nelson Goerner was born on 9 May 1969 in San Pedro, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. He studied with Jorge Garrubba, Juan Carlos Arabian and Carmen Scalcione before winning first prize at the Franz Liszt Competition in Buenos Aires in 1986. That success brought a scholarship to work with Maria Tipo at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève, and in 1990 he won the Geneva International Music Competition. He has been based in Switzerland for most of his career.
Goerner has built a reputation as a Chopin specialist and is closely associated with the Fryderyk Chopin Institute in Warsaw, for which he has recorded on period instruments. He performs with orchestras including the Orchestre de Paris, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Mariinsky Orchestra and Sinfonia Varsovia, under conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy and Esa-Pekka Salonen. His recordings for Alpha and the Chopin Institute cover Chopin, Debussy, Liszt, Franck and Rachmaninoff and have been widely praised for their tonal refinement. He is a regular presence at the Verbier Festival, where he appears in both solo and chamber programmes.
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