Antonio Pompa-Baldi

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 prize winner at the 1998 Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition of Paris, France, Antonio Pompa-Baldi also won a silver medal at the 2001 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Mr. Pompa-Baldi appears regularly at the world's major concert venues including New York's Carnegie Hall, Cleveland's Severance Hall, Milan's Sala Verdi, Boston's Symphony Hall, and Paris' Salle Pleyel, to name a few.

He has collaborated with leading conductors including Hans Graf, James Conlon, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, and Keith Lockhart, performing with the Houston Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Berliner Symphoniker, Orchestre National de Paris-Radio France, National Orchestra of Ukraine, Fort Worth Symphony, among many others. Notable recital engagements include Beijing, Seoul , Paris, London, Chicago, and Houston.

Among upcoming orchestral engagements, Mr. Pompa-Baldi will perform with the Santo Domingo Festival Orchestra under Maestro Philippe Entremont, and the Johannesburg and Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestras in South Africa. Recital engagements include Nancy (France), Fort Worth (TX), Cleveland (OH), San Francisco (Liszt Society Festival), Hong Kong, and Macao.

Mr. Pompa-Baldi's recordings include an all-Brahms disc (Azica), and a recital from his Cliburn Competition performances (Harmonia Mundi).
He has recorded 15 CDs for Centaur Records: the Josef Rheinberger Piano Sonatas; the entire piano output of Edward Grieg, in 11 volumes; an all-Rachmaninoff CD; an all-Schumann album; and the first volume of the Hummel Piano Sonatas.

Soon-to-be-released are the second volume of the Hummel Sonatas, and the Grieg Piano Concerto, also for Centaur.

Antonio Pompa-Baldi is a Steinway Artist. He is often invited to judge international piano competitions, and serves as president of the jury for the International Russian Piano Music Competition in San Jose, CA since 2006. His students have been prizewinners in important competitions such as Marguerite Long, Hilton Head, Isang Yun, and Gina Bachauer.

Mr. Pompa-Baldi invites his audience to interact with him and like his page: www.facebook.com/pompabaldipiano

(Last updated 08-26-12)
 

E-mail: axp84@case.edu

Web site: www.pompa-baldi.com

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