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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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Khanyisile Mthetwa – flute recital

Khanyisile Mthetwa – flute recital
with Lesley-Ann Mathews (piano)
6 August 2011
Odeion
19:30

Khanyisile began her musical education at the age of 15 at the Centre for Gifted Children in Johannesburg in 2000. Khanyisile made her début as soloist with the Johannesburg Festival Orchestra at the age of 16 with the Mozart Concerto No. 2 under the baton of Chris Dowdeswell. She studied at the University of Pretoria with dr John Hinch. After two years she continued her studies at the Music Conservatoire in Nice and played principal piccolo in the Symphony Orchestra of Lugano in Switzerland. She also completed a diploma specializing in orchestral training at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatoire in Milan (Italy) where she graduated as the premier prix laureate. In 2009 she completed her performance diploma study at the acclaimed Superior Conservatoire (Paris) under the tutelage of prof. Gabriel Fumet. During her studies abroad she received master classes from Trevor Wye, Tessa Brink, Ljubisa Jovanovic, Emmanuel Pahud to name but a few.

In 2005 Khanyisile was the overall winner in the UNISA competition for new Talent. She was the recipient of the section for woodwinds in the National Ronnie and Rhona Lubner competition for orchestral musicians. She was recipient of the Pretorium Trust bursary at the University of Pretoria and awarded a leadership bursary by the University of Pretoria and The National Research Foundation. She won the Apollo Foundation bursary for overseas study 3 years consecutively. She was awarded bursaries by both the National Arts Council and the Nelson Mandela Foundation.

In 2006 she played principal flute in the South African National Youth orchestra at the Beethoven Festival (Bonn, Germany). On the same tour she played principal flute in Beethoven 5th Symphony with the Berlin Philharmonic under the baton of Herbert Blomstead. Khanyisile was also a member of the World Youth Orchestra in 2006. She plays regularly with the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Johannesburg Festival Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of South Africa, the MIAGI Youth Orchestra and the National Youth Orchestra. She has performed with the Kwazulu-Natal Philharmonic, Milan soloists, the Nice Summer Festival Orchestra and at the Saint Chapelle (Paris). She has given recitals in all the major cities in South Africa and abroad (Atlanta, Washington D.C., Milan, Rome, Como, Geneva, London and Paris).

Khanyisile is currently the flute lecturer at the National School of the Arts.

Program:
Poulenc: Sonata for flute and piano
Hofmeyr: Incantessimo for solo flute
Prokofiev: Sonata for flute and piano

Master Classes:
Khanyisile will present master classes on Thursday, 4 August from 14:00 – 17:00 in the Odeion. Admission is free.

Admission:
R60 (adults)
R40 (pensioners, students and learners)
Tickets available at Computicket (at all Shoprite / Checkers shops, Mimosa Mall information desk) and at the doors.

Enquiries:
Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 - 401 2504)
 

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