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Fernando Otero is an Argentine pianist and composer, currently residing in New York City. Having studied classical music since childhood, he composes for chamber ensembles and orchestra, and has developed his own style which has elements of jazz and tango.
Otero found his voice as writer, musician and bandleader when, at the urging of one of his music teachers, he began to incorporate the indigenous sounds of his native Buenos Aires into his work, as he did in his Nonesuch debut Pagina de Buenos Aires in 2008.
He has collaborated with one-time Bill Evans sideman Eddie Gomez, flautist Dave Valentin and pianist/film composer Dave Grusin, among others, and he sat in with Arturo O'Farrill’s Jazz Orchestra during their Sunday night residency at New York City’s Birdland, performing his compositions with this large jazz ensemble also at Lincoln Center and Symphony Space. Most recently, he joined clarinetist Paquito D'Rivera on stage, at Birdland, Blue Note, and the Caramoor Festival, and in the studio for the recording of the Grammy-Award winner CD Funk Tango.
The always adventurous Kronos Quartet commissioned a piece from him, which was premiered at Carnegie Hall on February 2008, a piece in one movement titled “The Cherry Tree”.
In 2010 he received the Latin Grammy Award for Best Classical Album for Vital.