Leticia Gómez-Tagle

Leticia Gómez-Tagle (born in Mexico City) is a Mexican pianist and piano teacher. She has been teaching at the University Panamericana in the Music Faculty since 2023.

Gómez-Tagle received her first training in Mexico, studying piano with Manuel Delaflor and music theory with Ángel Esteva Loyola. She won prizes in youth piano competitions sponsored by Mexican Radio, Televisa, and the University of Puebla. She studied piano with Michael Krist, completing concert performance and instrumental pedagogy studies with distinction. She also received guidance from Carlos Rivera in Vienna and participated in masterclasses with Orlando Otey, Jörg Demus, Paul Badura-Skoda, and György Sándor.

She has won several prizes at youth piano competitions in Mexico, including the University of Puebla, and was awarded 1st prize at the Fomento Musical Sala Chopin, through which she received a scholarship from the Austrian governmental ministry and was thus able to take up studies in piano concert performance and instrumental pedagogy with Prof. Michael Krist at the Vienna Academy of Music.

She also received further musical impulses in Vienna from Prof. Carlos Rivera and in master classes with Paul Badura-Skoda, Jörg Demus, György Sándor and Orlando Otey.

Since her participation at the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1990, she has performed regularly at various music festivals in Mexico and Europe.

Career Gómez-Tagle’s participation in the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1990 marked the beginning of her European concert activity. She has since performed regularly across Europe, Mexico, the United States, and Canada, appearing at festivals and with orchestras under conductors such as Jesús Medina, Guadalupe Flores, Benjamín Juárez, and Ingo Ingensand.

She has given master classes in Spain (Mallorca, Córdoba and Granada), Mexico (CENART University) and Lebanon at the Sin el-Fil Conservatory. Since 1999 she has been teaching at the Music School of the City of Linz.

In recent years, Gómez-Tagle has appeared as soloist with the Orquesta Filarmónica Mexiquense under the direction of Gabriela Díaz Alatriste, one of Mexico’s leading women conductors.

The follow-up, Poems and Pictures (2018), received international acclaim. Fanfare praised her “liquid lyricism” in Ravel’s Ondine, the clarity and rhythmic dash of her Scarbo, and her colorful interpretation of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.

Her Sonatas in B Minor (2019), featuring works by Chopin, Liszt, and Scarlatti, was described by ResMusica as combining “transparency of textures” with a focus on structural clarity and harmonic nuance. Maciej Chiżyński noted her Chopin performance for its “variety of colors that caress the ear,” while recognizing her measured approach in Liszt. Fanfare characterized the album as “bravery in the face of two of the repertoire’s most technically daunting and musically challenging B-Minor Sonatas.”

Recordings

2010: "Dos Continentes", scherzi by Chopin and Latin American works by Piazzola, Ginastera, Moleiro, and Hugo Gómez Tagle among others (Urtext) 2016: "Dance Passion", works by Liszt, Chopin, Brahms, de Falla, Albéniz, Ginastera, and Márquez among others (ARS Produktion) 2017: "Poems & Pictures", Gaspard de la Nuit by Ravel, Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky, two transcriptions by Schubert / Liszt (ARS Produktion) 2019: "Sí! Sonatas", Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58 by Chopin, Piano Sonata in B minor by Liszt and Piano Sonata in B minor, K. 87 by Domenico Scarlatti (ARS Produktion) Poems and Pictures (ARS Produktion, 2018) – Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit, Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, and Schubert/Liszt transcriptions. Sonatas in B Minor (ARS Produktion, 2019) – Chopin’s Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Liszt’s Sonata in B minor, and Scarlatti’s Sonata in B minor K. 87.

Publications

Arturo Márquez: Danzón No. 2, transcription for solo piano (Hamburg: Peermusic Classical, 2016).