From: San Francisco Bay Area. LA Opera: pianist for After Hours recital Latina Composers (2021).
César Cancino enjoys a musically diverse career as pianist, musical director, and conductor. He graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and then studied piano with Alain Naude, a pupil of the great Dinu Lipatti. For five years, he toured with singer/songwriter Joan Baez as her musical director and pianist. Later he spent five more years as the musical director/pianist for Teatro Zinzanni (a European style circus-cabaret in San Francisco). He is also a recipient of the Bay Area Theatre Critic’s Circle award for Outstanding Musical Director.
Mr. Cancino has performed throughout North America, Europe, and Australia in such venues as the Montreux Jazz Festival, Newport Folk Festival, Carnegie Hall, International Music Festival of Mexico City, Atlanta Summer Pops Symphony, and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. He has appeared with such diverse artists as singers Rita Moreno, Liliane Montevecchi, Thelma Houston, Maria Muldaur, Mercedes Sosa; cellist Ron Leonard; and violinists Pierre d’Archambeau, Martha Caplin and Tracy Silverman. Local credits include Berkeley Rep, Silicon Valley Symphony, Cinnabar Theater, Broadway By The Bay, 42nd Street Moon, Theatreworks, Beach Blanket Babylon, Monterey County Symphony, and Musical Director/Conductor of Morrison Theatre Chorus. He was for six years the musical director for Palazzo, a German company that produces a variety of circus-cabaret shows in Europe.
Learn more at CancinoMusic.com.
