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DEBUTS:
Professional Debut: December 10, 2003 at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.1,and Mozart's Piano Concerto K.488, No.23, with the Camerata Internazionale, Conductor, William Hicks.
Young Artist Debut: at Carnegie Hall Rhapsody in Blue, Gershwin, with the Inter- Cities Chamber Orchestra, Conductor, Giselle Ben-Dor.
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS:
Fulbright Fellowship, Italy, 1997-1998
Mannes College of Music Scholarship, 1991-95
Alitalia Travel Sponsorship, 2003
National Italian American Foundation Scholarship, 1997-1998
Aspen Music Association, 1993
In Praise of Merit Scholarship, SUNY, 1991
Merit Scholarship, New York University, 1990
PRESENTED BY THE FOLLOWING ARTS ORGANIZATIONS AND MUSIC SERIES:
Central Park Summer Stage.
Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival.
Accademia Pianistica delle Marche, Italy.
UNEAC, Havana, Cuba.
Associazione Musicale Melos, Ragusa, Italy.
Gibraltar Philharmonic Society, Gibraltar
Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series, Chicago
Beethoven Festival, Long Island, Bob Sherman, Artistic Dir.
Caramoor, Performer's Showcase
Casa Italiana at NYU
Societa' dei Concerti, Teatro delle Erbe, Milan, Italy
Texas A&M University Distinguished Visitors in the Arts, Series, Corpus, Christi, Texas
Koussevitksy Foundation, New York
Anglo Italian Music Society, Bedford, England
Steinway Society, Princeton, NJ
Music at Trinity Series, Huntington, West Virginia
Tanglewood Institute, Lenox Mass.
Bach a Bartok Festival, Imola, Italy
Istituto Pontificio, Rome, Italy
Aspen Music Festival, Aspen, Colorado
Inter-Cities Performing Arts, Inc.
POSITIONS:
Principal Soloist of the state Philharmonic of Romania, Bacau. By special invitation, 1999-2003 Director of Programming, Altamura Center for Arts and Culture since 2001
ORCHESTRAS:
Bucharest Philharmonic, Romania
State Philharmonic of Romania, "Mhail Jora", Bacau
State Philharmonic of Romania, Kluj
State Philharmonic of Romania, Iasi
State Philharmonic of Romania, Ploiesti
State Philharmonic of Romania, Arad
State Philharmonic of Romania, Rimnica Valcea
European Sinfonietta, London, England
Inter-Cities Chamber Orchestra of New York
Several Free-lance orchestras based in NYC
RECORDINGS:
2000 Beethoven Piano Concerto#1 and Sonata Op.31, No.3
Iasi Camerata, conductor, Karel Mark Chichon, Olympia Arts Label
2000 Mozart Piano Concerto K.844,No.23
Recorded at the Royal academy of London with the European Sinfonietta, conductor, Karel Mark Chichon
2002 Solo CD entitled "Worlds Revisited" featuring works by Scarlatti, Chopin, Scriabin, Prokofiev, Olympia Arts Label
2002 Recorded live for Radio Broadcast on 96.3, Grieg Piano Concerto in Am with Romanian State Philharmonic of Bacau, conductor, Ovidio Balan
2003-04 Rachmaninov Piano Concerto #2 State Philharmonic of Romania, Bacau, conductor, Karel Mark Chichon and Scriabin Preludes, Olympia Arts, Label
Venues
USA:
Carnegie Hall
Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall
Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
Merkin Concert Hall
Steinway Hall
CAMI Hall
Chicago Cultural Center
EUROPE:
Teatro Comunale d'Imola, "Ebe Stignani
Teatro Delle Erbe, Milan
Accademia Pianistica d'Imola
Istituto Pontificio, Rome
Ateneul Roman, Bucharest
Concert Halls and Theatres throughout Romania
Tescana, the house of George Enescu in Romania
The Governor's Palace in Gibraltar
CARIBBEAN:
Basilica Minor del Convento de San Francisco de As?s, Havana, Cuba
UNIVERSITIES:
Mannes College of Music Concert Hall
Bethlehem University
Casa Italiana, NYU
William Paterson College, Theatre
Radio Broadcast
WQXR 96.3 New York City, NY
Presented three times on the McGraw Hill Young Artist Showcase, hosted by Robert Sherman
April 1997 Uncut Audition tape for Fulbright Fellowship
June 2001 Beethoven, Piano Concerto No.1 with the Iasi Camerata, conductor, Karel Mark Chichon
April 2003 Grieg Piano Concerto in Am performed live with Romanian State Philharmonic of Bacau, conductor, Ovidio Balan WMFT 98.7 Chicago, Ill
March 27, 2002 Solo Recital presented live on the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series
January, 2004 Havana Radio, Cuba
Education
Mannes College of Music, Mus. B. 1995
Teachers
Franco Scala, Director, Accademia Pianistica Imola, Italy
Stephanie Brown, Professor of Piano, Mannes College of Music, New York, NY
Marcello Abbado, Director, Verdi Conservatory, Milan, Italy
Herbert Stessin, The Juilliard School, New York, NY and Aspen Festival, Aspen, CO
Robert Abramson, The Juilliard School and Robert Abramson and Dalcroze Academy, New York, NY
Past Radio and Television Broadcasts, USA
New York, NY (1997, 1998, 2001)
WQXR, McGraw-Hill Young Artists Showcase
Chicago, IL (March 27 2002)
WFMT, the Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series, live concert broadcast
New York, NY
Italics, City University of New York
New Jersey
RAI USA, Mondo Italiano
Riverview Cable
Italy
Milan
Seranova
Telenova
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