安东尼奥·波姆帕

安东尼奥·波姆帕-巴尔迪 

ANTONIO POMPA-BALDI

美国克利夫兰音乐学院钢琴系教授

Piano Faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music

他是1998年法国玛格丽特-隆-雅克-蒂博国际钢琴比赛的头奖获得者，克利夫兰国际钢琴比赛第一名及美国2001年范-克莱本国际钢琴比赛银奖得主。他的演奏足迹遍及世界五大洲，频繁出现在世界各大音乐厅，例如美国纽约林肯中心音乐厅，卡内基音乐厅，克利夫兰塞弗伦斯音乐厅，意大利米兰威尔第大厅，美国波士顿交响乐大厅，法国巴黎著名科尔托音乐厅、普莱耶音乐厅、夏沃音乐厅、巴黎香榭丽舍剧院等。他与众多世界著名指挥家合作演出，包括指挥家汉斯-格拉夫、詹姆斯-康伦、米格尔-哈斯-贝多亚等；合作过的著名交响乐团，包括休斯敦交响乐团，柏林交响乐团，法国国家广播交响乐团，乌克兰国家交响乐团，美国科罗拉多交响乐团，美国沃斯堡交响乐团，意大利托斯卡纳交响乐团等。他是施坦威艺术家，中国中央音乐学院的客座荣誉教授。他的学生们经常在世界各地的重大国际钢琴比赛中获奖，包括法国玛格丽特-隆国际钢琴大赛，美国希尔顿-海德国际钢琴比赛，韩国尹伊桑国际音乐比赛，吉娜-巴考尔国际钢琴大赛等。

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 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, Shanghai’s Grand Theatre, and Paris’ Salle Pleyel, to name a few.

He has collaborated with leading conductors including Hans Graf, James Conlon, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Theodore Kuchar, Benjamin Zander, Louis Lane, and Keith Lockhart. He has performed with ensembles and colleagues such as Takacs String Quartet, Alison Balsom, Sharon Robinson, and principals of the Cleveland Orchestra, Dallas Symphony, and New York Philharmonic, among others.

With a concerto repertoire including more than 60 works, Mr. Pompa-Baldi recently performed cycles of all the Rachmaninoff Piano Concertos, the five Beethoven Piano Concertos, and both Brahms Concertos with various orchestras. He has played recitals in most major venues over the world. 

In 2019, he was a returning guest at the third edition of the Lang Lang International Piano Festival in Shenzhen, China, continued his honorary guest professorship at the Beijing China Conservatory, and was named honorary professor at the Shenyang Conservatory of Music. Among the stops on his tours, he performed in Vienna (Austria), Malaga (Spain), Nancy (France), New York, and throughout China (Beijing, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Dalian, and Guangzhou). 

Mr. Pompa-Baldi has recorded over 30 CDs to date, for various labels including Harmonia Mundi, Steinway, TwoPianists, Azica, Brilliants, and Centaur Records. Among them, the complete piano and chamber music works of Grieg, the Josef Rheinberger Piano Sonatas, the complete Hummel Piano Sonatas, and CDs dedicated to Brahms, Schumann, Liszt, Respighi, Roberto Piana, and Rachmaninoff.

For the Steinway label, Pompa-Baldi recorded a disc of songs by Francis Poulenc and Edith Piaf, arranged for solo piano, to commemorate the 50th year of the passing of both French musical icons, as well as a CD titled “Napoli”, which features new piano versions of famous Neapolitan songs. His latest releases feature Concertos for Violin, Piano and Orchestra by Mendelssohn (Brilliant Classics), Haydn, and Hummel (Centaur Records). 

Antonio Pompa-Baldi is a Steinway Artist. He is often invited to judge international piano competitions such as the Cleveland, Hilton Head, E-Competition, BNDES Rio de Janeiro, and Edward Grieg, among many others. He serves as president of the jury and artistic advisor for the San Jose International Piano Competition since 2006.

Pompa-Baldi is on the Piano Faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music. His students have been prizewinners in important competitions such as Marguerite Long, Hilton Head, Isang Yun, and Gina Bachauer. He is regularly invited to teach masterclasses in countless Universities, Music Schools, and Festivals in the US and all over the world.

In 2015, Pompa-Baldi founded the Todi International Music Masters festival, of which he is Artistic Director and Faculty Member. This summer festival takes place every August in the beautiful Italian town of Todi. It features 15 concerts in 15 days, with internationally renown faculty members, and students from all over the world.