Sergio Tiempo

Sergio Tiempo is among the most accomplished South American pianists of his generation. While he is less known in the United States, he has achieved considerable fame in Japan and most of Europe. His repertory is fairly broad but mostly in the Romantic and post-Romantic mainstream, with Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Mussorgsky, and Ravel heavily represented. Tiempo was born into a musical family in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1972. He took piano lessons from his mother, Lyl, at age two. At three he gave his first public recital and a year later played on Argentinian telev...