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SUMMARY:Antonio Pompa-Baldi
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\nBorn and raised in Foggia\, Italy\, Antonio Pompa-Baldi
  won the Cleveland International Piano Competition in 1999 and embarked on
  a multifaceted career that continues to extend across five continents. A
  top prize winner at the 1998 Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition 
 of Paris\, France\, Antonio Pompa-Baldi also won a silver medal at the 200
 1 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Pompa-Baldi studied with tw
 o important exponents of the great Neapolitan School: Annamaria Pennella\,
  and Aldo Ciccolini. He also received great guidance in masterclass settin
 gs with Paul Badura-Skoda and Jörg Demus.\n\n\n\n\nMr. Pompa-Baldi appear
 s at the world’s major concert venues including New York’s Carnegie Ha
 ll\, Cleveland’s Severance Hall\, Milan’s Sala Verdi\, Boston’s Symp
 hony Hall\, Shanghai’s Grand Theatre\, and Paris’ Salle Pleyel\, to na
 me a few. He has collaborated with leading conductors including Hans Graf\
 , James Conlon\, Miguel Harth-Bedoya\, Theodore Kuchar\, Benjamin Zander\,
  Louis Lane\, and Keith Lockhart. He has performed with ensembles and coll
 eagues such as Takacs String Quartet\, Alison Balsom\, Sharon Robinson\, a
 nd principals of the Cleveland Orchestra\, Dallas Symphony\, New York Phil
 harmonic\, and Juilliard Quartet\, among others. With a concerto repertoir
 e including more than 60 works\, Mr. Pompa-Baldi recently performed cycles
  of all the Rachmaninoff Piano Concertos\, the five Beethoven Piano Conce
 rtos\, and both Brahms Concertos with various orchestras. He has played re
 citals in most major venues over the world.\n\nIn 2019\, he was a returnin
 g guest at the third edition of the Lang Lang International Piano Festival
  in Shenzhen\, China\, continued his honorary guest professorship at the B
 eijing China Conservatory\, and was named honorary professor at the Shenya
 ng Conservatory of Music.\n\nAmong the stops on his tours\, he performed i
 n Vienna (Austria)\, Malaga (Spain)\, Nancy (France)\, New\nYork\, and thr
 oughout China (Beijing\, Shenzhen\, Hangzhou\, Dalian\, Guangzhou). Mr. Po
 mpa-Baldi has recorded over 30 CDs to date\, for various labels including 
 Centaur Records\, Harmonia Mundi\, Steinway\, TwoPianists\, Azica\, and Br
 illiant Classics. Among them\, the complete piano and chamber music works 
 of Grieg\, the Josef Rheinberger Piano Sonatas\, the complete Hummel Piano
  Sonatas\, and CDs dedicated to Brahms\, Schumann\, Liszt\, Respighi\, and
  Rachmaninoff.\n\nFor the Steinway label\, Pompa-Baldi recorded a disc of 
 songs by Francis Poulenc and Edith Piaf\, arranged for solo piano\, to com
 memorate the 50th year of the passing of both French musical icons\, as we
 ll as a CD titled “Napoli”\, which features new piano versions of famo
 us Neapolitan songs\, elaborated by Roberto Piana.\n\nHis latest releases 
 feature Concertos for Violin\, Piano and Orchestra by Mendelssohn\, Haydn\
 , and\nHummel. Antonio Pompa-Baldi is a Steinway Artist since 2003. He is 
 often invited to judge international piano competitions such as the Clevel
 and\, Hilton Head\, E-Competition (Minneapolis)\, BNDES Rio de Janeiro\, a
 nd Edward Grieg (Bergen)\, among many others. He serves as president of th
 e jury and artistic advisor for the San Jose International Piano Competiti
 on since 2006.\n\nPompa-Baldi is on the Piano Faculty of the Cleveland Ins
 titute of Music. His students have been\nprizewinners in important competi
 tions such as Marguerite Long\, Hilton Head\, Isang Yun\, and Gina Bachaue
 r. He is regularly invited to teach masterclasses in countless Universitie
 s\, Music Schools\, and Festivals in the US and all over the world.\n\nIn 
 2015\, Pompa-Baldi founded the Todi International Music Masters festival\,
  of which he is also Artistic\nDirector and Faculty Member. This summer fe
 stival takes place every August in the beautiful Italian town of Todi. It 
 features 15 concerts in 15 days\, with internationally renown faculty memb
 ers\, and students from all over the world.\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram\n\n\n\n\n\n
 \n\nBeethoven—Sonata Op.53 in C major “Waldstein”\nDebussy—Suite B
 ergamasque\nLiszt—Sposalizio\nLiszt—Sonata quasi Fantasia “Après un
 e lecture du Dante”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGet Tickets\n\n
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