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Antonio Pompabaldi, Italy, 1st Prize, 1999

Antonio Pompa-Baldi emerged from the 2001 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition with a coveted silver medal as well as the Phyllis Jones Tilley Memorial Award for the Best Performance of a new work. He was also a top prizewinner at the 1998 Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition. Mr. Pompa-Baldi has toured extensively in the United States and Europe. He has brought his assured touch on the keyboard to some of the world's major concert venues including Cleveland's Severance Hall, Milan's Sala Verdi, Naples' Teatro Diana, New York's Lincoln Center, and Paris' Salle Cortot, Salle Gaveau, Salle Pleyel, Theatre des Champs-Elysees and Théâtre du Châtelet .


Recent orchestral appearances have included the Fort Worth Symphony, Syracuse Symphony, Pacific Symphony, Columbus Symphony, Peoria Symphony, Rockford Symphony, Charleston Symphony, Savannah Symphony, Ohio Chamber Orchestra, Southwest Florida Symphony, Spokane Symphony as well as the Orchestre Philarmonique de Metz (France), Orchestre National de Paris-Radio France, Symphony Orchestra of Sicily (Italy) and National Orchestra of Santo Domingo. In Summer 2002, Mr. Pompa-Baldi appeared with the Boston Pops at Boston's Symphony Hall

His recent recital engagements include Paris (Théâtre du Châtelet), Bologna, Boston, Cleveland, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Antonio, Hartford, Miami and San Juan. He often performs chamber music, collaborating with ensembles such as the Avalon String Quartet, the Takacs String Quartet, and violinist Elmar Oliveira, to name a few.

The 2003-04 season includes appearances with the Auckland Philharmonia (New Zealand), Kansas City Symphony, Cleveland Pops, National Orchestra of Santo Domingo, Lawton Philharmonic, Peoria Symphony, Symphony of the Americas (Miami) and the Canton Symphony, in addition to recitals in New York's Carnegie Hall, Chicago, Portland (OR), Sacramento, Fort Worth and more. Mr. Pompa-Baldi has been seen and heard many times on PBS, French National Television Antenne 2 and on Radio-France, Cleveland's WCLV, Boston's WGBH, and National Public Radio's "Performance Today".

In addition to the recording of his Cliburn Competition performances on the Harmonia Mundi label, he has also recorded an all-Brahms disc for Azica, the Rheinberger piano sonatas for Centaur Records, and Canada. Centaur Records also released his recording of music of Edward Grieg.

In Summer 2002, he was on the Faculty of TCU-Cliburn Institute. He also served as a juror for the Van Cliburn Third International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs. Mr. Pompa-Baldi served as an assistant professor of piano at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and is currently on the Faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music. He teaches frequent master classes around the world.

Mr. Pompa-Baldi’s website is www.pompa-baldi.com

 

 
 


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