[MusicAlumni] Guest Pianist: Pierluigi Camicia (Italy) - April 11, 2016

Fri Apr 8 15:42:09 CDT 2016

You are cordially invited to the Piano Recital presented by Italian pianist, Pierluigi Camicia, on the campus of Texas A&M University-Commerce on April 11 at 7:30 pm.  Admission is free.  The program will include works by Beethoven, Brahms, and Chopin.

Pianist Pierluigi Camicia, a native of Apulia, Italy, began piano study at the age of five. In 1962, at the age of ten, he won first prize in the prestigious national competition "ENAL" at La Spezia.
A Busoni and Chopin international competition prizewinner, he became professor at the Bari Conservatory at the age of  20, engaged from M° Nino ROTA.

At the age of twentyone he was a first prize winner in the most important piano competition in Italy: “Città di Treviso”, wich helped launch a solo prestigious career  in Italy and Europe and USA.

He has already produced a generation of notable piano students, including Benedetto Lupo, prizewinner in the Van Cliburn Piano Competition in Forth Worth, Texas.
            Mr Camicia devotes himself primarly to solo performances, and his artistry has been commented enthusiastically by Rostropovich, Ciccolini, Vasary and Franco Ferrara, but has also gained notoriety in Europe as a chamber musician.
            His association with cellist Michael Flaksman dates to 1982; they have performed together in European Festivals and in U.S.A. and they have recorded the music of  Gabriel Faurè in a CD of ABEGG.
He has played also with Nina Beilina, Ruggero Ricci, Melina Mandozzi, Pierre Hommage, Angelo Persichilli, Sebastian Quartett Zagreb, Trio di Roma,  etc.

He played with Orchestras conducted by Gabriele Ferro, Samuel Friedman, Tamas Gal,Walter Proost, Gabriele Gandini, Mario Gusella, Massimo Biscardi, Mladen Tarbuk etc in the most important Italian and European Theatres and BBC Radio.

He also conducts Piano and Chamber-music Masterclasses in Europe (Italy,Germany, Croatia, France) and in U.S.A (Cleveland, Salt Lake City, Fresno,Arlington).

Mr. Camicia is artistic director of the oldest Concert Series in Lecce, named Camerata Musicale Salentina, and till 2013 the Director of the State Academy-Conservatory of Music “Tito Schipa” in Lecce.

He has recorded with Bongiovanni, Abegg and Farelive music of Chopin, Brahms, Franck, Van Westerhout, Grieg, Faurè.

Dr. Luis Sanchez | Associate Professor, Piano
Department of Music | Texas A&M University-Commerce
Luis.Sanchez at tamuc.edu<mailto:Luis.Sanchez at tamuc.edu>
PO Box 3011 | Commerce, TX 75429
Tel. 903.886.5287 | Fax 903.468.6010| www.tamuc.edu<http://www.tamuc.edu/>

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