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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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Deon Lamprecht Organ Recital

Wednesday, 12 September 2012
Odeion
19:30

Deon Lamprecht has been associated with the UFS Department of Music (now Odeion School of Music) from 1974 until 2005. In 1994 he was promoted to professor. He was Head of the Department of Music for the last 11 years of his academic career.

During his long career as concert organist he has performed as soloist with orchestra at various events with works by Handel, Michael Haydn, Poulenc and Saint-Saëns. He also gave numerous solo recitals. Performances after his retirement include two concerts in British Columbia (Canada), two concerts in the Odeion, the Dutch Reformed Church Berg-en-Dal, the Veremarksentrum (Port Elizabeth), the Dutch Reformed Church Universiteitsoord (Pretoria) and three concerts in the southern Cape. As student he received lessons from proff. Chris Swanepoel, Jakobus Kloppers and Stephen Zondagh. In 1980 he won the first prize in the organ competition during the Third South African Organ Festival (Cape Town), the first prize in the organ category and the SAMRO Prize of the Music Prize Competition of the SABC.

During further studies abroad het took part in organ courses presented by Harald Vogel (Germany) and Jean-Claude Zehnder (Switzerland). During the International Organ Course in Oudle (England), he presented a paper titled Fundamental aspects of keyboard technique, followed by masterclasses by Ludger Lohmann (Germany), Julian Weir (England) and Hans Fagius (Sweden).

Programme:
Dupré – Five of the 79 Chorales, Op. 28
Bruhns - Praeludium in E minor, No. 1
Bach – Variation No. 10 from Partita on Sei gegrüsset, Jesu gütig (BWV 768)
Bach - Prelude and fugue in G major (BWV 541)
Andriessen - Toccata
Fasch - Trio in C minor
Mozart - Fantasia No. 2 in F minor, K.608
Guilmant - Pastorale from Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 42
Duruflé - Prelude & Fugue on the name ALAIN, Op. 7

Admission:
R100 (adults), R60 (pensioners, students and learners)
R40 (group bookings of 10+)
Tickets available at Computicket.

Enquiries:
Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 401 2504)
 

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