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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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Stefan Temmingh (recorder) and Axel Wolf (lute) in “The Brocken Melody”

Thursday, 28 February 2013 

Odeion

19:30

Stefan Temmingh is part of the young generation of world-class recorder players. About his debut CD “Corelli à la mode” an Italian reviewer wrote: “Never before did recorder playing sound so effortless and so differentiated in terms of timbre and dynamics.”  - Corriere della Sera (Milano).   Published by the German label Oehms Classics, the recording was celebrated by the international music press in 2009.  His second CD “The Gentleman’s Flute” was immediately nominated for the International Classical Music Awards 2011 (formerly MIDEM Awards).  Since then Stefan is regularly compared to the legendary Frans Brüggen.  Stefan comes from a Dutch-South-African family of musicians. He was born in 1978 (Cape Town) and now lives in Munich.  There he studied with Markus Zahnhausen as well as with Prof. Michael Schneider (Frankfurt). As a specialist in Early Music performance, his repertoire comprises the complete Baroque literature for recorder.  As a soloist he regularly performs with orchestras such as the Folkwang Chamber Orchestra Essen, the Hofkapelle Muenchen, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and at the Ludwigsburg Festival. He has participated in recordings for Harmonia Mundi, Oehms Classics, Christophorus Records, the Southwest German and the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporations.  His commitment ranges from Baroque to Modern music. One of his strongest desires is to extend the boundaries of the recorder repertoire and he succeeds to surpass the usual stereotypes concerning his instrument.   In 2008 he was awarded the Contemporary Music Scholarship of the City of Munich.  Since 2010 he has a lectureship at the Munich College of Music.

Axel Wolf is a freelance musician who lives in Bavaria (Germany). He travels to international festivals in Bruges, Utrecht, Edinburgh, Tokyo and New York, both as a soloist or member of ensembles including Musica Fiata (Cologne), the Freiburger Barockorchester, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and The English Concert.  He has been a regular guest at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, performing under the direction of Ivor Bolton, Harry Bicket and Christopher Moulds.  He completed his guitar and lute studies with Hans Michael Koch and continued it with Rolf Lislevand.  He has worked with conductors such as Peter Schreier, Enoch zu Guttenberg, Alan Curtis, Paul McCreesh and Joshua Rifkin in opera, concert and CD productions.  He was a lecturer at the Academy of Music and Theater Hanover (1986 - 2003).  In addition to numerous CD productions as a continuo player and accompanist, he has released solo recordings of the lute works of Johann Sebastian Bach, “Opera for Lute”.

PROGRAMME:

(The Brocken Melody - The fascinating art of Renaissance and Baroque variation): Works by Corelli, Ortiz, De Rippe, Dowland, Schop, Van Eyck as well as the ever popular Greensleeves.

ADMISSION:

R130 (adults), R90 (pensioners, students and learners)

Tickets available at Computicket.

ENQUIRIES:   

Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 401 2504)

OSM MASTER CLASS SERIES 2013:

Stefan Temmingh will present master classes to three candidates on the day of the concert (Thursday, 28 February 2013) from 11:00 – 13:00 on the Odeion stage.  Come and see the master at work!

Admission: R50 per person

 

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