Venezuelan pianist Ana María Otamendi has performed as soloist, collaborative pianist, and conductor all over the US, South America and Europe with renowned artists such as Donald Sinta, Michelle DeYoung, Paul Groves, Ana María Martinez, members of the Chicago Lyric, Houston Grand Opera, and Dallas Opera Orchestras, Philadelphia Orchestra, Dallas and Milwaukee Symphonies, etc. She is Director of the Collaborative Piano Program at Louisiana State University, Artistic Director of the Collaborative Piano Institute, and pianist of the Reverón Piano Trio (ensemble devoted to the standard, modern, and Latin American piano trio repertoire, managed by Halac Artists and Meluc Kulturmanagement). Recitals, masterclasses, and speaking engagements have taken her to the University of Cambridge, Yale, Wolftrap Opera, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Mahidol University (Thailand), Universities of Minnesota, Michigan, Texas at Austin, and more. She is fluent in four languages, and a Geophysical Engineer whose thesis was published in the prestigious journal Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors.