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Enrique Bátiz Campbell (born May 4, ) is a Mexican conductor and concert pianist....
Enrique Bátiz Campbell
Mexican conductor and concert pianist
Enrique Bátiz Campbell (born May 4, 1942) is a Mexican conductor and concert pianist.
Bátiz began piano studies at age 8 with Francisco Agea.
At the age of 73, Enrique Batiz is one of the most famous orchestra conductors in Latin America and no doubt he is a gifted artist who has won international.
He continued studies 10 years later with György Sándor. After two years at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, he became a student of Adele Marcus at the Juilliard School, where he also studied conducting. In 1964, he made several national tours as a pianist, and in 1965 was a semifinalist in the Marguerite Long International Piano Competition in Paris.
From 1967 to 1970, he continued his piano studies in Poland with Zbigniew Drzewiecki, where he also studied orchestral conducting with Stanislaw Wislocki. In 1970, he was a finalist in the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition in Italy.
In , at age 29, Bátiz founded the Mexican State Symphony Orchestra, of which he remained principal conductor until the end of , renewing his.A 1967 concert tour featured performances with the Łodz and Szczecin Philharmonics. He returned to Mexico in 1969. His debut as a conductor was in the Palacio de Bellas Arte