The Times Reporter (OH) describes an evening with Olivera: “An event, a happening, a joyful celebration of the sheer power and pressure that a true virtuoso like Hector Olivera can unleash in a concert hall.” 

Born in Buenos Aires, Olivera began playing the pipe organ when he was 3. At age 5 he played for the legendary Eva Perón, and at 12 he entered the University of Buenos Aires. By the age of 18 he had performed for heads of state and celebrities throughout Latin America. When offered a scholarship to the renowned Juilliard School in New York, he moved to the United States.  

Olivera has performed solo concerts throughout the US, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Central and Latin America, and as a guest soloist with prominent symphony orchestras worldwide. 

He continues to dazzle audiences with his prodigious technical proficiency and his charismatic stage personality. Whether in a prestigious venue like Carnegie Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, Constitution Hall, or Walt Disney Concert Hall, the most sophisticated and demanding organ aficionados declare that Hector Olivera is “one of the greatest organists in the world today.”