Piano Festival
Pierluigi Camicia, January 21, 2009, Corley Auditorium
Masterclass 10.00 am -12.00 am
Concert 7.30 pm
Pianist Pierluigi Camicia, a native of Apulia, Italy, began his music studies at the age of five. In 1962, at the age of ten, he won first prize in the prestigious national competition ENAL in the city of La Spezia. Mr. Camicia, also a Busoni and Chopin competition prizewinner, became a professor at the Bari Conservatory at the age of twenty, appointed by Nino Rota. At the age of 21, he was a first-prize winner in Italy's premiere piano competition, the Città di Treviso, which helped launch a prestigious solo career in Italy and Europe. His piano studio has already produced a generation of notable pianists, including Benedetto Lupo, a prizewinner in the Van Cliburn Piano Competition in Forth Worth, Texas.
Mr. Camicia devotes himself primarily to solo performances, and his artistry has been praised enthusiastically by such renowned artists as Msitislav Rostropovich, Aldo Ciccolini, Tamás Vásáry, and Franco Ferrara. In addition to solo performances, he has also gained critical acclaim in Europe as a chamber musician. His association with cellist Michael Flaksman dates to 1982; the two have performed together in European festivals and in the United States, and they have recorded an album of Faurè on the Abegg label. He has performed with such notable artists as Nina Beilina, Ruggero Ricci, Melina Mandozzi, Angelo Persichilli, Sebastian Quartet, and the Trio di Roma, amongst others. Mr. Camicia has concertized in the eminent concert halls of Europe and Italy under the batons of Gabriele Ferro, Samuel Friedman, Tamas Gal, Walter Proost, Gabriele Gandini, Mario Gusella, Massimo Biscardi, and Mladen Tarbuk, to name a few. He also conducted piano and chamber music master classes in Europe (Italy, Germany, Croatia, France) and in the United States (Cleveland, Salt Lake City, Fresno, Arlington).
In addition to Abegg, Mr. Camicia has also recorded on the Bongiovanni and Quintieri labels. He is presently the artistic director of the oldest concert series in Lecce, the Camerata Musicale Salentina, and director of the Tito Schipa State Conservatory of Music in Lecce.
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