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Antonio Pompa-Baldi
2018-05-24

24 May 2018

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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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Kinkels inni Kabel (Afrikaans)

Production: Kinkels inni Kabel (Afrikaans)
Text: André P. Brink
Director: Nico Luwes
Venue: Scaena theatre
Dates and times:
19 May 2010 19h30
20 May 2010 19h30
21 May 2010 19h30

Bookings: Computicket (Mimosa Mall and Checkers)

Bookings for block bookings of 10 or more people can be done with Thys Heydenrych (072 235 3191)

“January, February, March, April...” It’s a jolly New Year’s Day at the Scaena Theatre in May month, held at the University of the Free State!

The “Klopse” are busy practicing for the Carnival taking place the next day, and all the action takes place in a small town called “Witbaai”. “Sollie”, is the group leader of the “Klopse”. “Apools-van-die Pêrel” an along with his best friend “Drommel-van-die-Pêrel” arrive in Witbaai to spy on the “Klopse”. Each of them individually has a twin brother, from which they were separated during a shipping accident, named “Apools-van-die-Kaap” and “Drommel-van-die-Kaap” (they form part of the “Klopse”). The two pair of twins gets mistaken for one another by the local residents. “Adriana” a toothless old woman, her virgin sister “Lucy”, “Jessie” a floosy or cheap girl, “Aikona” an ice-cream salesman from Johannesburg, his long-lost wife “Emily”, “Knippie”a Malay, “Kuite” a wizard, “Magriet” a “hippy-Klops”, along with the group of “Klopse” all form part of the fun! What a farce!

A mixture of mistaken identity, dramatic irony, love triangles and absolute CHAOS can be expected! The production shows great discretion with its inherent political tone. André P. Brink wanted the issue of Apartheid to be touched on a very suggestive manner with the goal to act as a humoristic figure in the play.

“Kinkels innie kabel” written by André P. Brink is a farce based on Shakespeare’s play “Comedy of Errors”. The play is performed by third year Drama students of the University, directed by Professor Nico Luwes. The performance will take place from 19 May to 21 May 2010. Tickets are available at Computicket.

Thanks to the excellent directing of Professor Nico Luwes, there is no need to drive all the way to Cape Town; we bring Cape Town to Bloemfontein!

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