Horacio Nuguid
Co-Artistic Director
Filipino American pianist Horacio Nuguid holds degrees in piano performance from the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, the University of Northern Iowa, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition to presenting solo recitals, he has performed with orchestras in the Philippines, Mexico, and the United States. He also collaborates regularly with singers and instrumentalists as founder, pianist, and artistic director of the Rochester Chamber Music Society.
As a music educator, he has presented master classes internationally and served as an adjudicator for piano competitions in the United States, the Philippines, and South Korea. He was a member of the artist faculty of the Young Artist World Piano Festival in Minnesota for more than 20 years and taught as a guest artist at the Philippine High School for the Arts.
His anthology Philippine Piano Pieces features scholarly editions of works by Filipino composers.
Nuguid teaches piano privately with his wife, Rosanna, in Rochester, Minnesota. He also serves as co-artistic director of the Bethel University Summer Piano Academy and as a faculty member and juror at the Asian International Piano Academy and Festival in South Korea.