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Antonio Pompa-Baldi
2018-05-24

24 May 2018

Odeion

19:30

Born and raised in Foggia (Italy), Antonio Pompa-Baldi won the Cleveland International Piano Competition in 1999 and embarked on a career that continues to extend across five continents. A top prizewinner at the 1998 Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition in Paris (France), Antonio Pompa-Baldi also won a silver medal at the 2001 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.

Antonio appears regularly at the world's major concert venues including New York's Carnegie Hall, Paris' Salle Pleyel, Milan's Sala Verdi, Shanghai's Grand Theatre, and Boston's Symphony Hall. He performed in London, Tokyo, Seoul, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Kiev, Auckland, Hong Kong, and Beijing, and conducted masterclasses at the China National Conservatory. Pompa-Baldi has played with the Houston Symphony, Berliner Symphoniker, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Boston Pops, and Colorado Symphony, among many others. He has collaborated with great musicians and conductors such as Hans Graf, James Conlon, Louis Lane, Keith Lockhart and Miguel Harth-Bedoya.

His extensive recording catalogue features 20 CDs and is constantly growing. They include the entire piano repertoire of Grieg in twelve CDs, a live recital of his award-winning Cliburn Competition performances and “The Rascal and the Sparrow - Poulenc meets Piaf” piano arrangements of songs by Francis Poulenc and Edith Piaf. His CD, “After a reading of Liszt”, is a tribute to Liszt, and other recordings include an all-Schumann disc, an all-Rachmaninoff CD, as well as the Rheinberger Piano Sonatas. Pompa-Baldi is now recording the complete Hummel Piano Sonatas.

In May 2014 Pompa-Baldi completed live performances of all the Rachmaninoff Concertos and Paganini Rhapsody with the CPO. In January 2015, he performed a recital at the First Lang Lang International Piano Festival in Shenzhen (China). In March 2015, he performed all the Beethoven Concertos in Fresno (CA). Other recent notable engagements include the Cheyenne Symphony (Respighi Piano Concerto), Nova Scotia Symphony (Rachmaninoff Second and Third Piano Concertos), and recitals in Wenzhou and Xiamen (China), San Jose (CA), Ravello Festival, Todi International Music Masters festival and the island of Sardinia (Italy).

A Steinway artist, Pompa-Baldi is on the piano faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music. He is the founder and faculty member of Todi International Music Masters (Italy), and sits on the juries of the most prestigious piano competitions of the world, including the Cleveland International Piano Competition, the Hilton Head Piano Competition, the International Edvard Grieg Piano Competition in Bergen (Norway) and the San Jose International Piano Competition.

www.pompa-baldi.com

PROGRAMME

  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Sonata Op.13 in E flat
  • Five French songs of Poulenc and Edith Piaf
  • Francis Poulenc: Napoli Suite
  • Giuseppe Martucci: Fantasia Op. 51
  • Nikolai Medtner: Sonata Tragica
  • Roberto Piana: Improvisations on Neapolitan Songs

ADMISSION

  • R140 (adults)
  • *R100 (pensioners)
  • *R80 (UFS staff)
  • *R60 (students, learners and block bookings of 10+)

Tickets available at Computicket or online at http://online.computicket.com/web/

*Please note that tickets for pensioners, students, learners and UFS staff can only be purchased at a Computicket outlet (Shoprite Checkers) or at the doors since a valid card or ID has to be presented to qualify for the above mentioned discount.

ENQUIRIES
Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 401 2504)


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Jean-Pierre Calitz: Former Kovsie music student gives piano recital

23 Junie 2011
Odeion
19:30

Jean-Pierre Calitz was the first prizewinner of the MUSICON National Piano competition (Now Arts Trust Competition) in 2001 and 2002 as well as the MUSICON Soloists Competition in 2003. He was a member of the winning ensemble at the Stellenbosch Chamber Music Competition in 2002 where he was the only pianist to receive a prize for outstanding ensemble playing.

During his undergraduate university career Jean-Pierre was awarded merit scholarships by the University of the Free State and Music study scholarships by the South African Music Rights Organization. He was a participant in master classes with Niel Immelman (Royal College of Music - London), Andrea Bonnata (Italy), Petronel Malan (USA), Dana Cilliers and Nina Schumann. In 2006, Jean-Pierre was invited to perform the Mozart Quintet for Winds and Piano with the University Wind Quintet for the Stellenbosch University’s annual International Chamber Music Festival. In the same year, as a member of the South African National Youth Orchestra, he toured to Germany to perform at the well-known Beethovenfest.

His main teachers in South Africa were Nettie Immelman, Ella Fourie and Albie van Schalkwyk. He furthered his studies at the Western Michigan University in the United States where he studied with Silvia Roederer. He was named a Gilmore International Keyboard Festival Fellow - which included a master class performance for André Watts.

He recently graduated with a Masters degree in Piano performance. In the summer of 2009/10 he studied with Bachauer Gold Medalist, Lori Sims, at the Bayview Music festival. Jean-Pierre is a candidate for the Doctorate in Music (piano performance) at the Université de Montréal under Paul Stewart. His research is focused on the "Fairytales" by Nikolai Medtner.

Jean-Pierre was selected as a competitor of the UNISA National Piano Competition in Pretoria from 9 – 16 July 2011.

Programme:
Messiaen: Vingt Regards sur l'enfant Jésus: XI Première communion de la Vierge "The Virgin's first communion"
Bach: Partita in C minor, BWV 826
Medtner: Fairytales, Op. 20
Prokofiev: Sonata in A major, Op 82.

Admission:
Free

Enquiries:
Odeion School of Music (051 – 401 2810).

 

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