Roberto McCausland Dieppa

Roberto McCausland-Dieppa, also known as "Dieppa", is a Colombian pianist, composer, and conductor, specializing in classical, jazz and Hungarian music. "Dieppa" is the first Colombian born pianist to have performed successfully in world wide venues.[1] "Dieppa" is the conductor of Sinfonia Latina. and helped start the Santa Fe-Barlovento Orchestra.[2] His performances at various venues across the United States, Asia, Australia, and Europe, are noted such as Carnegie Hall, Ostrogskich-Chopin Hall, and the United Nations.[3][4][5][2][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]

Roberto McCausland Dieppa
Born	July 6, 1959 Barranquilla, Colombia
Alma mater	Berry College
Occupation	Pianist, composer, conductor, author
Years active	1997-present
Style	Classical, Contemporary
Awards	Pro arte Hungarica prize 2006
Musical career
Labels	eOne Music International Classics, Scruffy, Roberto McCausland-Dieppa

"Dieppa" became known after composing and conducting ‘'Sinfonia Latina’' at age seventeen in1976, the composition fused Rock, Jazz, Salsa and Spanish music into a symphonic format.[2][19][20][21][22] The event "Sinfonía Latina" denominated ‘Super Show’ over-exceeded expected attendance,[6][4][2] Noted as ‘avant-guarde’ and ‘revolutionary’, it pushed the boundaries of popular salsa, autochthonous dance rhythms, rock, and jazz with a classical frame work into the modern concert hall, with poetic (protest) lyrics in Spanish.[2][6]

Following the Sinfonia Latina event he moved on to classical performances, composing and conducting becoming a critical figure in music education for children, disseminating caribbean music using ‘folk idioms’ and "dance" rhythm, espousing Hungarian music and culture particularly the music of Franz Liszt , Béla Bartók which he is most passionately interested.[8][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30]