The career of Jorge Luis Prats experienced a meteoric rise, after his first performance at the Miami International Piano Festival in May 2007, once again placing him among the most important pianists of our time.
His debut in 2008 at the prestigious “Meister Pianisten” at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, received so many ovations that Prats played the same series again over the following three years, which had only happened previously with the pianists Alfred Brendel and Grigory Sokolov. In May 2010, he replaced Nelson Freire in a performance at the Salle Pleyel in Paris, with an extraordinary success among the audience, which was repeated again in September of that same year at the “Piano aux Jacobins” festival in Toulouse. Since then, he has regularly been invited by the most prestigious French piano series such as “Les Grandes Interprètes” in Lyon, the Grand Theatre de Aix in Provence, “Piano 4 Etoiles” at the Salle Pleyel in Paris, La Roque d’Antheron, etc. Also, he regularly performs with the Orchestre de Paris conducted by Paavo Järvi.
Jorge Luis Prats has gone on tours around Europe, Latin America, China, Japan and Korea, playing with orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic in London, BBC Symphony, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Berlin State Opera Orchestra, Wiener Symphoniker, Orchestre de Paris, Philharmonique de Liege, Philharmonique de Montecarlo, Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, Orquestre Nationale de Lyon, Prague Philharmonic, Dallas Symphony, Pensacola Symphony, Philharmonic Orchestra of Mexico City, Philharmonic Orchestra of Bogota, Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, and with most of the Spanish orchestras: Spanish National Orchestra, Galicia Symphony Orchestra, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of Valencia, Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, Oviedo Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of Extremadura, ORCAM, Orchestra of Cordoba, etc.
He was also Artistic Director of the National Orchestra of Cuba from 1985 to 2002, and he went of several tours around Spain and Latin America with this orchestra.
Jorge Luis Prats was born in Camagüey (Cuba), in 1956, to parents of Spanish origin. After graduating from the National School of Arts of Havana, he was awarded a scholarship to study at the prestigious Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, where he perfected his technique with Rudolf Kerer. He continued his studies at the Paris Conservatory with the Franco-Brazilian maestro Magda Tagliaferro, and subsequently at the Hochschüle für Müsik und Kunstler in Vienna with the great pianist Paul Badura-Skoda. He also received masterclasses from Witold Malcuzcynski in Warsaw.
At the age of 21, Jorge Luis won first prize in the prestigious Long–Thibaud–Crespin Competition in Paris, as well as the special prize for the best performance of the works of Ravel and Jolivet.