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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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Ben Schoeman – Piano Recital


Ben Schoeman – Piano Recital
29 October 2009
Odeion
19:30

Ben Schoeman is one of South Africa’s foremost pianists. In 2008 he won the first grand prize in the UNISA Vodacom International Piano Competition in Pretoria – the first South African ever to win this prize. He is also the gold medal and first prize winner of the 2009 Royal Overseas League Music Competition in London. Over the past few years he has won all the South African national music competitions for which he was eligible, including the UNISA National Piano Competition as well as the UNISA and SAMRO Overseas Scholarships.

He regularly performs concertos with all the leading South African symphony orchestras, including the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra, The KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of South Africa. He also regularly gives solo and chamber music recitals throughout South Africa. His recent nationwide concert tour as pianist of the Moritzburg Festival Trio received rave reviews.

Ben Schoeman’s performing career extends to the international realm and includes recitals across Europe, Canada and the United Kingdom. Forthcoming engagements include a concert tour throughout South Africa (sponsored by Vodacom) as well as performances in Milan, Turin and London’s Wigmore Hall.

After his graduation from the University of Pretoria in 2005, where he studied under the guidance of Joseph Stanford, he continued his studies with Boris Petrushansky at Italy’s renowned international piano institute in Imola, the Accademia Pianistica ‘Incontri col Maestro’. Other teachers include Michel Dalberto and Louis Lortie. In 2008 he received the prestigious Laureate Award from the University of Pretoria for his outstanding achievements as well as his contribution to art music in South Africa. He is currently enrolled for a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree at City University of London and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where his teacher is Ronan O’Hora.

“...exceptional talents …playing is varied, dramatic and lyrical..Excellent!”
BEELD

“Schoeman played to all of his considerable strengths - allying his fantastic technique with his deeply romantic spirit.”
PRETORIA NEWS

“One was yet again taken aback by the splendour and strength of Schoeman"s dazzling virtuosity”
TONIGHT

Admission:
R100 (adults)
R60 (pensioners, students and learners)
Tickets available at Computicket (at all Shoprite / Checkers shops, Mimosa Mall information desk, Izami Florist) and at the doors.

Enquiries:
Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 - 401 2504)




 

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