Gonzalo Aguilar began taking piano lessons at 17 years old with Professor Larissa Belotserkovskaia, and graduated from the National Conservatory of Music in Lima, Peru, with the highest accolades. He joined the New School in 2022.
Dr. Aguilar holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Piano Performance from The University of Southern Mississippi, with minors in collaborative piano and music theory. He was a student of Elizabeth Moak, and his dissertation is an analysis of folk elements found in three piano compositions by Peruvian composers. He holds a Master’s Degree in Piano Pedagogy and Performance from Westminster Choir College, where he studied with Ingrid Clarfield.
In 2013, Dr. Aguilar was invited to attend the Golandsky Institute Summer Symposium at Princeton University. In 2016, he performed Franz Liszt’s Piano Concerto in E-flat Major with the Westminster Community Orchestra, and he was invited by Art Quitilinga to perform a recital in the Karl Richter Haus in Quedlinburg, Germany. In 2017, Dr. Aguilar performed a recital on Peruvian composers with oboist William Wielgus at the International Students House in Washington, D.C. With Wielgus, he also recorded music of Peruvian Composers for Sono Luminus. Dr. Aguilar was invited to perform a solo recital in Czech Republic, and gave a masterclass to two students of the Prague Conservatory.