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Antonio Pompa-Baldi
2018-05-24

24 May 2018

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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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Kastreer

Language:  Afrikaans / English

Directed by:  Walter Strydom & Helet de Wet

Based on plays by:  P.G. du Plessis, Reza de Wet, Pieter-Dirk Uys, Bartho Smit and Andre P. Brink

Complied for the stage by the ensemble

Featuring:  3rd Year Drama Students

Venue:  Scaena Theatre

Dates & times:

2 April at 19:30

3 April at 19:30

4 April at 19:30

Prices:  R 40.00 for adults / R 30.00 for students or scholars / R 25.00 for pensioners or for groups of 10 or more

Bookings:   Computicket (0861 915 8000)

Press Release

“Kastreer” brings hope?

It was a warm summer night about three million years ago in Southern Africa when our earliest human ancestor first came down from the tree, by accident. Since then the southern tip of the African continent has seen ages of crazy regimes, maniacal people and suppressive wars. Today we face 20 years of democracy with an inherent pessimism in not only our government, but also each other. Where will our saviour come from?

In the words of some of South Africa's leading writers for the theatre, eight final year students of the UFS Department of Drama and Theatre Arts create a voice for themselves in the setting of a chaotic, yet realistic classroom. Unsentimental and without any excuses, the state of the South African psyche – especially that of the youth –is examined: An investigation into the South African’s ape-man mentality – here and abroad.

Pieter-Dirk Uys’sVan Aardes van Grootoor, P.G. du Plessis’sNag van Legio, André P. Brink’sDie Jogger, as well as Bartho Smit’sDie Keiser and Reza de Wet’sAfrican Gothic,form part of the rich theatrical history unearthed by this new generation in their sardonic search for solutions. Dear audience, prepare yourself to remember: A teacher is there to scold, part of our confused youth, is to comply.

With directors Walter Strydom and Helet the Wet (creators of VREK, winner of BesteKopskuifstuk duringVryfees 2013), you can be assured of not only cutting commentary, but also an evening of hilarious entertainment with glaring moments of truth.

Just maybe you will find an answer in the UFS Scaena Theatre as to why the monkey fell off his little twig in the first place.

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