Gustavo Casenave is a Uruguayan/American pianist and composer living in the United States since 1994. He was recently declared "Illustrious Citizen of the City of Montevideo” (Uruguay) in 2021. He is a Two-Time Latin GRAMMY® AWARD WINNER (2020 & 2019) for “Best Tango Album” and for “Best Instrumental Album”  featuring all original compositions. He has been nominated six times for the Latin Grammy including three nominations on the “Best Contemporary Classical Composition” category.

A Steinway Artist since 2014, Casenave is a “Majestic Excellence Award 2022 Winner” at the Excellence Piano Awards International Competition in Europe. He is also a Two-Time Gold Medal Award Winner at the Global Music Awards, a first recipient of the "Horacio Ferrer" Award (October 2021) given by Uruguayan Vice President Beatriz Argimon, and an ACE Awardee (2015). He is a One-Time winner and Two-Time Finalist at the “American Prize in Composition” music contest (2019 &2018), multiple times awarded with the New Works Grant from the Queens Council on the Arts - Art Fund (NYC), New Music USA Awardee, Con Edison Composers Residency Awardee (NYC) and “Belgian Artistic Promotion Award” at Europe Jazz Contest 1999 among several other recognitions.

Active in the worlds of Jazz, Classical and Tango, he has performed and toured worldwide, collaborated and recorded with artists as diverse as: Yo-Yo Ma, Bette Midler, Eddie Gomez, John Patitucci, Christian Mc Bride, Robert Duvall, Charlelie Couture, Paquito D' Rivera and the 12 cellist of the Berlin Philharmonic among many others. He has performed at venues across North, Central and South America, Asia and Europe, including The Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Blue Note (NYC), Taiwan National Theater, Harris Theater (Chicago), Jackie Gleason Theatre (Miami), Chung Mu Art Hall (Korea), Porgy & Bess Jazz Club (Vienna/Austria), Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts and Walton Arts Center among many others.

With more than 30 albums under his name, he also directed and performed on almost every major Tango show in the US on the last two decades, including the Broadway hit Forever Tango, Tango Fire, Tango Lovers, Tango Buenos Aires and Eternal Tango Orchestra among others. He is a former Jazz Department Director at the Harbor Conservatory for the Performing Arts in East Harlem NY (2009 - 2012), in addition to giving Tango Master Classes and guest artist lectures at The Juilliard School, Oberlin Conservatory, Eastman School of Music, Yale University, Columbia University, University of Florida and New York University among others. He is a permanent faculty member at the Stowe Tango Music Festival in Vermont and published his first music theory book in 2014: “The Harmonic Structure Levels”.