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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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Her Lyrical Song

Her Lyrical Song

with Marguerite van Wyk (soprano), Piet Koornhof (violin), Danrè Strydom (clarinet) & Truida van der Walt (piano)

Sunday 1 March 2020
Odeion
16:00

A lyrical evening with a concert titled “Her Lyrical Song” with soprano Marguerite van Wyk, violinist Piet Koornhof, clarinetist Danrè Strydom and pianist Truida van der Walt. The programme will include works by Britten, Mozart, Whitacre, Schubert and S. Le Roux Marais.

Marguerite van Wyk her BMus (Ed) and BMus (Hons) performance degree under the guidance of Hanna van Niekerk at the UFS. During her studies she participated in numerous performances with Pacofs, the Youth Concert Festival together with the Pacofs Orchestra. She recently achieved her Master's Degree in Performance with distinction, under the guidance of Antoinette Olivier. Violinist Piet Koornhof is Associate Professor at the North West University (Potchefstroom). He studied with Professor Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School in New York, and obtained a DMus in Musical Performance from the North West University. Danrè Strydom has established herself as one of South Africa's premier solo, chamber and orchestral musicians. After attending the Interlochen Arts Camp (USA), she studied with Heinrich Armer at the UFS. She furthered her studies at the Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music, with renowned clarinettists Eli Eban and Eric Hoeprich. She holds two separate MMus degrees from the Royal Conservatory (Ghent University) and recently completed her PhD at the OSM. She was appointed woodwind lecturer at the OSM in 2014. Truida van der Walt is a well-known accompanist and chamber music player. After piano studies with Adolph Hallis (Johannesburg), she studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst (Vienna). She was regularly invited by the provincial arts councils to accompany visiting overseas artists and has played for numerous winners of competitions.


PROGRAMME

Benjamin Britten (1913 – 1976)
On this Island, Op. 11
Let the florid music praise!
Now the leaves are falling fast
Seascape
Nocturne
As it is plenty

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)
Aria: L’amero saro costante (Aminta)
From the opera: Il re pastore
with violin solo – Piet Koornhof

Eric Whitacre (Born 1970)
Five Hebrew love songs
Temuná (A picture)
Kalá Kallá (Light bride)
Lárov (Mostly)
Èyze shéleg (What snow)
Rakùt (tenderness)
with violin - Piet Koornhof

Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828)
Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (The shepherd on the rock)
with clarinet – Danré Strydom

Five songs of S. Le Roux Marias (1896 – 1979)
Lentelied
Dit is laat in die nag
Mali, die slaaf se lied
Rooidag


ADMISSION

  • R90 (adults)
  • *R50 (pensioners and UFS staff members)
  • *R40 (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. +27 51 401 2504)

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