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URL:https://grandpianoseries.org/events/rodolfo-leone/
SUMMARY:Rodolfo Leone
DESCRIPTION:\n\nBIOGRAPHY\n\n\nThe brilliant 27-year-old Italian born piani
 st Rodolfo Leone was the first-prize winner of the 2017 International Beet
 hoven Piano Competition Vienna. Described as “a true sound philosopher
 ” (Oberösterreichische Nachrichten)\, Rodolfo released his debut album 
 on the Austrian label Gramola in May 2018. The all-Beethoven disc features
  two pillars of the piano repertoire: the “Hammerklavier” Sonata and t
 he “Waldstein” Sonata. His playing has been described as having “imp
 eccable style” and “absolute technical control.” (Il Nuovo Amico).\n
 Rodolfo’s 2018-19 season included debuts with the San Diego Symphony (Li
 szt’s Piano Concerto No. 1) and the Pasadena Symphony (Mozart’s Piano 
 Concerto No. 21)\; he also performed Beethoven’s Triple Concerto in Walt
  Disney Hall with the Colburn Orchestra. In May 2019\, he gave a recital t
 our in Austria\, culminating in a performance in Vienna at the Brahms-Saal
  of the Musikverein. He also performed recitals in Los Angeles and Naples\
 , Florida\, and appeared on the chamber music series Le Salon de Musiques 
 in Los Angeles. As a 2018-19 Performance Today Young Artist in Residence\,
  Rodolfo’s live recordings were broadcast nationally throughout the Unit
 ed States.\nA native of Turin\, Italy\, Rodolfo made his orchestral debut 
 in 2013 performing Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Haydn Orc
 hestra of Bolzano and Trento (Italy). He toured Italy with that orchestra 
 the following year performing Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Rodol
 fo made his North American debut in 2014 performing Liszt’s Piano Concer
 to No. 1 with the Toronto Concert Orchestra. Since then\, he has performed
  with\, among others\, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra with Stéphane 
 Denève and the Colburn Orchestra at Walt Disney Concert Hall\; and recita
 ls at Festival Napa Valley and the Soka Performing Arts Center. He has als
 o performed chamber music with Lynn Harrell\, Fabio Bidini\, Andrew Schulm
 ann\, and the Viano String Quartet.\nRodolfo has performed extensively thr
 oughout Europe\, North America\, and China. These performances include deb
 uts in venues such as the Musikverein in Vienna\, Steinway Hall in London\
 , the Music Hall of the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing
 \, the Politeama Theatre in Palermo\, the Mozart Concert Hall of Accademia
  Filarmonica in Bologna\, and the BASF Gesellschaftshaus in Germany. A top
 -prize winner of several major piano competitions\, Rodolfo was awarded to
 p prizes at the 2014 Toronto International Piano Competition and the 2013 
 Busoni International Piano Competition. Pianist magazine described his con
 certo performance during the 2017 International Beethoven Piano Competitio
 n as a “communion with the orchestra” that “was raptly convincing…
  robust and joyful.”\nRodolfo is currently based in Los Angeles where he
  previously studied at the Colburn Conservatory of Music. He holds both a 
 Master of Music degree and an Artist Diploma from Colburn\, where he studi
 ed with Fabio Bidini. He previously studied at the Hans Eisler School of M
 usic in Berlin\, Germany and at the G. Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro\, It
 aly.\n&nbsp\;\n\n\nProgram\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeethoven: Seven Bagatelles 
 Op. 33\nChopin: Piano Sonata N. 2 in b-flat minor Op. 35\nChopin: Polonais
 e in A-Flat Major\, Op. 53 "Eroique" (Encore)\nLiszt: from Années de pèl
 erinage: Première année: Suisse - N. 6 Vallée d'Obermann\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\
 n\n\n\n\nGet Tickets\n\n
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