Grand Piano Festival Performers
MICHELANGELO CARBONARA
Friday, April 29 at 7:30 p.m.
Graham Tyler Memorial Chapel, Parkville Campus

Michelangelo Carbonara was born in 1979 in Salerno (Italy), starting musical studies when he was five. He owes his piano technique foundation to Sergio Perticaroli, William Grant Naboré and Fou Ts'ong.

At seventeen, he graduated with top grades from the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia and in 1999 he achieved his Piano Specialization Degree with top grades at the Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome, earning the Grant for the Best Graduate of the Year. He became the youngest graduate in history of Academy of Santa Cecilia, thus equalling Daniel Baremboim. Michelangelo furthered his studies at the Salzburg Mozarteum in Austria and the Academie Musicale de Villecroze (with Dominique Merlet) in France.

In 2001 he was admitted to the famous International Piano Foundation "Theo Lieven" and the International Piano Academy Lake-Como (headed by the legendary Martha Argerich), to follow the master classes of William Grant Naboré, Fou Ts'ong, Leon Fleisher, Graham Johnson, Dmitri Bashkirov, Alicia De Larrocha, Peter Frankl, Claude Frank, Andreas Staier and many other luminaries.

Performance Program Franz Joseph Haydn: Sonata Hob. XVI: 40 in G major Allegretto e innocente - Presto Witold Lutoslawski: Two Studies   Domenico Scarlatti:    Sonata K 454 in G major Sonata K 120 in D minor Sonata K 213 D minor   Manuel De Falla: Fantasìa Bética Fryderyk Chopin:  24 Preludes op. 28

He has won numerous international and national Piano Competitions (sixteen prizes until now, 11 international and 5 national). At eighteen, he made his international debut with orchestra in Austria, where he played the Third and the First Beethoven Concertos in the same programme.

In 2003 he debuted in China, also giving a master class at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. In Italy he has played, as soloist and with orchestra, in the most important halls and festivals, such as Sala Verdi (Milan), Lingotto (Turin), Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Rome).

His repertory is extremely broad and covers the entire Schubert Sonatas and almost all the piano works by Schubert, Weber, Brahms, Schumann, a lot of Beethoven's, Clementi's, Mozart's Haydn's Sonatas and dozens of Scarlatti's. Particular attention is also given to Polish composers (amongst which Chopin, Szymanowski, Lutoslawski, Paderewski).
 

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