| Cesar Cancino César Cancino enjoys a musically diverse career as pianist, musical director and conductor. He graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and then studied piano with Alain Naude, a pupil of the great Dinu Lipatti. He was for many years the musical director/pianist for Teatro Zinzanni (a European style circus-cabaret in San Francisco) and for several years toured with singer/songwriter Joan Baez as her musical director and pianist. He is also a recipient of the Bay Area Theatre Critic’s Circle award for Outstanding Musical Director. Mr. Cancino has performed throughout North America, Europe and Australia in such venues as Montreux Jazz Festival, Carnegie Hall, Int’l Music Festival of Mexico City, Atlanta Summer Pops Symphony and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. He has appeared with such diverse artists as singers Liliane Montevecchi, Thelma Houston, Maria Muldaur, Mercedes Sosa; ‘cellist Ron Leonard; and violinists Pierre d’Archambeau, Martha Caplin and Tracy Silverman. Local credits include Menopause, The Musical, Spelling Bee, Broadway By The Bay, 42nd Street Moon, Theatreworks, Beach Blanket Babylon, Plush Room in San Francisco, Monterey County Symphony, Alameda Civic Light Opera, Circus Center/New Pickle Circus and Musical Director/Conductor of Morrison Theatre Chorus. He is currently the new musical director for Palazzo, a German company that produces a variety of circus-cabaret shows in Europe. O1C Performances: Icons, Divas & Dreamgirls |
