Haydée Schvartz: Cramb Residency 2025

This concert will see Haydée perform a selection of pieces by contemporary composers from around the world and their takes on the genre of tango.

The programme focuses on the International Piano Tango Collection, a project inititated by American pianist, Yvar Mikhashoff, of which Schvartz is one of the artistic heirs. Mikashoff commissioned over a hundred composers from around the world to create piano works inspired by tango.

Of these, Schvartz's concert programme includes works by Gabriel Valverde, Gerardo Gandini, Jorge Horst (from Argentina), Oliver Knussen and James Clapperton (from Scotland) as well as others from Japan, Hungary and the USA.

The concert is supported by the Cervantes Chair at University of Edinburgh and the Echoes Festival organised by the Iberian and Latin American Music Society (ILAMS).

About Haydée Schvartz

Haydée is a renowned Argentinian pianist and educator who has been playing piano since the age of four and performing and recording internationally since the 1990s, mixing new music, classical and chamber music repertoires. She studied piano in Buffalo with Yvar Mikhashoff on a Fulbright Scholarship for her masters, having also studied in London with Maria Curcio.

As well as performing extensively across the concert halls and festivals of Argentina and South America, she has performed internationally at festivals around the world including Edinburgh International Festival, North American New Music Festival (USA), World Music Days (Canada), Popayan Festival (Colombia) and at the International Forum of New Music (Mexico). Besides her solo performances, she has featured with Argentinian and international orchestras and has worked with composers from all over the world, premiering many works, often written especially for her.

Her recording career has also been wide-ranging and has seen her record for labels around the world including Tempus Clasico (Mexico), Los Años Luz (Argentina) and Mode Records (USA). Her most recent album for the latter, Claude Debussy’s Preludes for Piano Books 1 and 2, won the Gardel Award (an Argentinian equivalent of the Grammys) for best classical music album in 2021.

In her role as an educator, she is a Principal Professor at the National University of Arts and the Superior Academy of Teatro Colón (ISTAC) and has also worked across other universities and conservatoires in Argentina, Mexico, Brazil and the USA.

She has also been Musical and Artistic Director of the contemporary music group Ensamble Tropi since 2009.

Cramb Residency

The Cramb Residency in Music annually invites a composer or musician(s) "pre-eminent in the field of Music", to the University of Glasgow for an inspiring combination of talks, workshops and performances.

Previous Cramb scholars have included Aaron Copland, Sir Peter Pears, George Lewis, Lydia Goehr, Susan McClary, and Thea Musgrave. The most recent have included David Toop (2020), Maggie Nicols in 2022 and LEMUR in 2024.

The event's origins are in the Cramb Lecture in Music which was founded in 1911 by Miss Susannah Cramb of the Hermitage, Helensburgh and in 1947 provision was made for the lecture to become an annual event.

In more recent years the format has been expanded and visiting speakers have carried out a longer residency at the University. Residencies have incorporated public performance and seminars with Music students in addition to the traditional public lecture.