Pietro De Maria
After receiving the Critics’ Prize at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (1990), Pietro De Maria won First Prize in other prestigious international piano competitions, such as the Dino Ciani – Teatro La Scala in Milan (1990), the Géza Anda in Zurich (1994), and the Mendelssohn Award in Hamburg (1997).
An active concert pianist, he has played as soloist with the best known orchestras, with conductors of the stature of Roberto Abbado, Gary Bertini, Myung-Whun Chung, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Daniele Gatti, Alan Gilbert, Eliahu Inbal, Marek Janowski, Ton Koopman, Michele Mariotti, Ingo Metzmacher, Gianandrea Noseda, Corrado Rovaris, Yutaka Sado and Sándor Végh.
Born in Venice in 1967, De Maria studied piano with Giorgio Vianello and Gino Gorini. Revealing a precocious talent, he won First Prize at the Alfred Cortot International Piano Competition in Milan at the age of 13. He graduated from the Conservatory of Venice and continued his studies with Maria Tipo at the Conservatory of Geneva, where he obtained the Premier Prix de Virtuosité with the highest honours in 1988.
His repertory ranges from Bach to Ligeti and he is the first Italian pianist to have played Chopin’s complete piano works in six public concerts. More recently, he has been focusing on Bach, presenting both books of The Well-Tempered Clavier as well as the Goldberg Variations in his concerts.
He has recorded Chopin’s complete piano works and The Well-Tempered Clavier for Decca, receiving important acknowledgments from international publications of prestige such as Diapason, International Piano, MusicWeb-International and Pianiste.
Pietro De Maria teaches at the School of Music in Fiesole, at the Academy of Music in Pinerolo and at the PIANALE Piano Academy in Germany.
PROGRAM
M. CLEMENTI
Sonata in fa diesis minore op. 25 n. 5
Piuttosto allegro con espressione
Lento e patetico
Presto
F. CHOPIN
Mazurca op. 67 n. 4 in la minore
Mazurca op. 24 n. 2 in do maggiore
Mazurca op. 63 n. 3 in do diesis minore
Ballata n. 1 in sol minore op. 23
Notturno op. 27 n. 2 in re bemolle maggiore
Scherzo n. 2 op. 31 in si bemolle minore
F. LISZT
Da Soirées de Vienne, 9 Valses-Caprices d’après Schubert: n. 6 in la minore
Dalle Années de Pèlerinage, Deuxième Année – Italie: Sonetto 104 del Petrarca
Da Grandes Etudes de Paganini, S141: n. 3 in sol diesis minore (“La Campanella”)
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