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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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Mozart Gala Evening

Soloists:          Caroline Nkwe, Annemarie Steenkamp, Bongani Makhanya, Phenye Modiane, Christopher Vale and members of the BTE VO1SS Academy

Conductor:       Alexander Fokkens

Date:                Saturday 20 April 2013

Venue:             Odeion

Time:                19:30

After the success of the Verdi Gala Concert last year, the Free State Symphony Orchestra decided to join forces with the Black Tie Ensemble & Voice Opera One Stop Shop (BTE VO1SS) again to present a concert with excerpts from operas. This year the focus will be on music by Mozart. Five soloists of BTE Vo1ss - Caroline Nkwe (soprano), Annemarie Steenkamp (mezzo-soprano), Phenye Modiane (tenor), Kagiso Boroko (tenor) and Christopher Vale (baritone) - members of the BTE Vo1ss Academy and the local choir Voices will perform with the FSSO conducted by Alexander Fokkens.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's operas comprise 22 musical dramas in a variety of genres. They range from the small-scale, derivative works of his youth to the full-fledged operas of his maturity. Three of the works were abandoned before completion and were not performed until many years after the composer's death. His mature works are all considered classics and have never been out of the repertory of the world's opera houses.

The comic opera Le Nozze di Figaro (Marriage of Figaro) was composed when Mozart was 30 and is often regarded (with Cosi fan tutte) as one of the best examples of opera buffa. The following excerpts will be performed:

  • Cherubino’s aria “Non so piu cosa son, cosa faccio” will be sung by Annemarie Steenkamp;
  • The finale from the second act “Esci omai garzon malnato”;
  • Figaro’s exciting aria “Hai gia vinta la causa” will be sung by Christopher Vale;
  • The whole company will join in for the beautiful finale of the opera.

Although the opera Don Giovanni is sometimes classified as comic, it blends comedy, melodrama and supernatural elements and can be better described as dramma giocoso. One of the most beautiful duets that can be found in any opera, “La ci darem la mano” will be sung by Annemarie Steenkamp and Christopher Vale.

Cosi fan tutte was written when Mozart was 34. The virtuoso soprano aria, “Come scoglio” will be sung by Caroline Nkwe. Also included in the programme are two trios from the opera: “Soave sia il vento” for 2 sopranos and baritone and “La mia Dorabella capace non è” for tenor, baritone and bass.

A Singspiel is a form of German-language music drama, now regarded as a genre of opera. Mozart wrote four Singspiele. Excerpts from 3 of these will be on the programme: the Overture of Der Schauspieldirektor (Impressario), the duet “Vivat Bacchus, Bacchus liebe” and the finale “Nie werd' ich deine” from Die Entführung aus dem Serail and the male chorus “O Isis und Osiris” from Die Zauberflöte. The latter will be performed by Vo1ss Academy and the local Voices choir.

Mozart has already started work on Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) when he was commissioned to write a new work to celebrate the coronation of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor as King of Bohemia. The result was La Clemenza di Tito which he completed within about a month. The Overture and the tenor aria “Ah Se fosse intorno al trono” are on the programme.

The evening will end with the Benedictus from the big Mass in c minor, K427.

Admission

R120 (adults)

R80 (pensioners)

R50 (students / scholars / groups of 10 and more)

Tickets are available from Computicket (Shoprite / Checkers, Mimosa Mall)

Book online at www.computicket.com

Enquiries:

Ella Kotze (FSSO), tel. (051) 401-2342

www.fsso.org.za

 

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