Gabriela Montero
Pianist
Improvisational musician known for creating multi-layered compositions in the moment based on ideas from her audiences.
She was a student at London's Royal Academy of Music from 1990 to 1993.
She was also a master interpreter of composers Bach, Chopin, Liszt, and Rachmaninoff.
Her mother and father gave her a toy piano when she was only seven months old.
She, Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, and Anthony McGill played Air and Simple Gifts by John Williams at President Barack Obama's 2009 inauguration.