Official Trailer ✅: Season 5 Episode 14 "Mastering Musical Heritage" feat. Jose Ramos Santana

26 Apr 2025 · 3 min

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My art history, I was very privileged, very lucky to have had the last, I guess, part of the 19th, 20th century tradition. When I was born, it was the time that Pablo Casals was in the island and he brought that, you know, his own tradition. Some of my teachers had studied started in Europe before Second World War. I was born when Spanish— Spain was still dominant. It was— Puerto Rico was a colony of Spain. And so that root of Spanish was always present in my family.
Join us for a rich and inspiring episode featuring José Ramos Santana, Steinway artist and one of the foremost interpreters of Spanish and Latin American piano music. José reflects on how his Puerto Rican roots, mentorship under Alicia de la Rocha, and love for Spanish composers shaped his artistry, while spotlighting the powerful piano works of Puerto Rican composers.
The Spanish music was always a very strong kind of, uh, definition in my upbringing. Therefore, I think that and I loved it, so I think that my mission is to continue that with that old tradition, and of course later on I met Alicia de la Rocha, and the Spain culture and the Spanish tradition in me was deeply rooted, and so I feel that, you know, I'm a conduit for the new generation from this point of view. My mission is also to educate young generations of pianists. So I think that this is what I want to make sure that I establish, you know, as my legacy and as my mission. Again, I've been very fortunate and I'm very thankful for life for having had great teachers in my background. From Puerto Rico to, you know, to the end of my studies, they all carry a tradition that is lost. And I am a link to that old tradition, to that of artists in artistry in the piano.
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