Grand
Piano Festival Performers
Alessandra Ammara
Saturday,
April 30 at 7:30 p.m.
Graham Tyler Memorial Chapel, Parkville Campus
Alessandra Maria Ammara has drawn the attention of the musical world
after achieving brilliant results in some of the more important piano
competitions, such as the G. B. Viotti international piano competition
in Vercelli, Italy; J. Iturbi di Valencia in Spain; and the Van Cliburn
in Fort Worth, Texas. In June 1998, she won second place in Casagrande
in Terni, Gian Paolo Minardi. Her performance was described as
“...explicit in gauging sounds, as in the articulation of phrasing, that
indicates an understanding of Mozart's language (Concerto K 488) and the
spirit within his work, a talent already evident when Ammara commanded
the attention of the commission with a seductive performance of Ravel's
Gaspard de la Nuit…”
In 2000, Ammara was a Laureate of the Esther Honens international piano
competition in Calgary, Canada. She began performing across Europe and
North America as a soloist and with orchestras. She has played with many
important orchestras, such as the Orchestra Sinfonica della Rai,
Orquesta Ciudad de Cordoba, Calgary Philharmonic, Capr Town
Philharmonic, Natal Philarmonic in Durban, Neue Philarmonie Westfalen,
Philharmonie der Nationen with world renowned conductors Nicholas
Cleobury, Justus Frantz, Bernard Labadie, Grzegorz Nowak, George
Pehilvanian, and En Shao.
Critics also define Ammara as a fine chamber musician and she is often
invited to give master classes in Europe and North America. She has
collaborated with many great interpreters as Ingrid Attrot, Rocco
Filippini, Alban Gerhardt, Anton Kuerti, Shauna Rolston, and the Takacs
Quartet. She regularly collaborates with pianist Roberto Prosseda and
Violinist Ilaria Cusano.
She has recorded for the Canadian label “Arktos” with music by Debussy,
Skrijabin and Chopin.
Ammara graduated from the L. Cherubini Conservatory of Florence and the
Accademia Pianistica of Imola. She honed her talents in some of today's
most prominent music schools, including the International Piano
Foundation at Lake Como and the School of Music in Fiesole with
world-renowned musicians Maria Tipo, Dmitri Bashkirov, Leon Fleisher,
William Naboré, and Fou Ts'ong.
More:
http://www.alessandraammara.com
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