Ms Bottazzi is in great demand as a judge for international piano competitions.
In 1992 she established the International Piano Tape Competition, a competition judged strictly from audio and videotaped performances in which the winners receive cash prizes and share a concert at Weill Recital Hall. The sixth competition did take place in 2003. Applications have already been received from 68 different countries for the next competition.
Her performance career includes 17 solo recitals at Carnegie Hall. In 1992 she was honored to perform at the White House for President and Mrs. Bush and in 1993 she gave a recital at the Vatican for Pope John Paul II.
Ms. Bottazzi has earned three masters degrees and two doctoral degrees: a PhD in music from universities in Argentina and the U.S. She received a second doctorate from The Juilliard School, becoming the first Latin American to earn a doctorate from that prestigious institution. She has received many awards, among them Outstanding Woman of the Year, given by the All Nations Women's League in 1982, the United Nations Outstanding People From Central and South America award in 1984, and the Outstanding Hispanic Women Achievers Award, presented to her in 1993 by New York Governor Mario Cuomo.
Ms. Bottazzi has been associated with the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College and with New York University. She founded, together with her husband Bruno, the Germaine Pinault School of Music in Manhasset, New York, one of New York's finest private music schools, and she has been its director for the past 37 years.
Competitions at which Dr. Bottazzi has sat as a judge include: (this information is forthcoming) |
