The Scarbo Duo pays tribute to José Luis Turina

[Scherzo, 6-11-2022] “They are important works and were impeccably performed. Laura Sánchez and Cristina Lucio-Villegas are two pianists with broad technique and remarkable expressive capacity. Besides, as a Dúo Scarbó, not only do they complement each other magnificently, but they also acquire a personality and a capacity that makes each work shine perfectly. If it […]

Party in Paris

[Diario de Sevilla, 16-09-2022] “Lucio-Villegas was brilliant in that lyrical effusion of the first movement and in the torrential overflow of the second, not forgetting the drama of her interventions in the third” Andrés Moreno Mengíbar READ (in Spanish)

On the exciting wings of rhythm

[Diario de Sevilla, 18-09-2021] “The Scarbo Duo achieved an exemplary, impetuous, effusive, exciting interpretation of a piece of extreme complexity, which also requires a very tight physical understanding so as not to get stuck in the multiple hand-crossings that music demands” Pablo J. Vayón READ (in Spanish)

To hope

[Mundoclasico.com, 29-06-2020] “Lucio-Villegas is a pianist of more than considerable means and enviable musical sensitivity, and all this was evident from the beginning.” R. Ortega Basagoiti READ

Perfumes and colors in a flute

[Diario de Sevilla, 04-06-2019] “Lucio-Villegas performed a billiant version, full of subtlety in the articulation, while Ruibérriz offered a seducing and very well balance legato (…) The pianist showed us her colour palette (great pedal technique) and the delicacy of her phrasing, combined with her sense of rhythm (…)” A. Moreno Mengíbar Read (in Spanish)

“Deep and moving hommage”

[Diario de Sevilla, 05-11-2015] “Remembering the young and promising pianist from a few years ago and listening to her now in an emerging and lucid maturity is for me a great satisfaction. With a doubtless virtuosity, Lucio-Villegas’ recital was distinguished by a deep musical sense, thanks to an elegant and flexible tempo control, an exquisite […]

“Piano is Castillo’s whole work germ”

“EL PIANO ES EL GERMEN DE TODA LA OBRA DE CASTILLO” (“Piano is Castillo’s whole work germ”), interview with Cristina Lucio-Villegas. [Diario de Sevilla, 08-03-2015] Pablo J. Vayón Read interview (pdf in Spanish)

“The natural piano”

“EL PIANO NATURAL” (“The natural piano”), interview with Cristina Lucio-Villegas in RITMO magazine (February 2014) Read interview (pdf in Spanish)