Ternium Culture: Horacio Lavandera to benefit the San Felipe Hospital Cooperative San Nicolas. 04/11/2025, 8:30 p.m.
The cultural cycle promoted by Ternium and the PROA Foundation presents the acclaimed pianist with his new concert “Sounds of the Eternal” in San Nicolás. A concert that brings together works by Beethoven, Mahler, The Beatles, and Gustavo Cerati. Tickets, which benefit the San Felipe Hospital Cooperativa (Cooperative), are available at the San Nicolás Theater and Plateanet starting at $8,000.
The event, which promises to be another unforgettable evening, will take place on Friday, April 11th at 8:30 p.m. at the San Nicolás Theater and is organized by the Movilizarte Civil Association. Tickets will be available starting tomorrow at the Theater Box Office (Monday to Friday, 12 p.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.) and at Plateanet, and range from $8,000 to $12,000.
Sounds of Eternity
The concert begins with Ludwig van Beethoven’s tribute to the kings of England through Variations on two of his most famous melodies, transformed into hymns: “God Save the King” and “Rule Britannia,” and continues with the 33 Diabelli Variations, Op. 120 in C major.
The second part of this concert will take us through the original piano roll versions recorded by Gustav Mahler himself of his most iconic songs and passages from his symphonies, including the “Adagietto.”
These compositions will be connected with Horacio Lavandera’s versions of iconic songs by members of The Beatles, such as Imagine, Yesterday, and Eleanor Rigby. Finally, a selection of original versions by Gustavo Cerati, one of the greatest exponents of Argentine rock, will be presented.
About Horacio Lavandera
Horacio is the fifth generation of a family of distinguished professional musicians. At the age of 16, he won the 3rd Umberto Micheli International Piano Competition, held at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, and received a prize from the Orchestra della Scala. Since then, he has performed on some of the most important stages in America, Europe, and Japan, both in recitals and as a soloist with prestigious orchestras. He has performed at venues such as the Herkulessaal (Munich), the Berliner Philharmonie (Berlin), Radio France (Paris), Wigmore Hall (London), Jordan Hall (Boston), Carnegie Hall (New York), the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Rome), Musikverein (Vienna), Hamarikyu Asahi Hall (Tokyo), the Teatro Real (Madrid), and the Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires), alongside prestigious orchestras such as the Salzburg Mozarteum, the Spanish Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, the London Chamber Players, and the Teatro Real’s Orchestra, conducted by Antonio Pappano, Benjamin Zander, and Franz-Paul Decker, among others.
He has been recognized, among other awards, three times as “Best Instrumental Soloist” by the Argentine Music Critics Association, awarded by Karlheinz Stockhausen, and with the “Primer Palau” in Barcelona.
