Pianist Paolo André Gualdi will appear in concert on November 14, 2011, at 7:30 p.m. in the Taylor Memorial Chapel on the campus of Emmanuel College, Franklin Springs, GA.
Sponsored by the Cultural Awareness Program of Emmanuel College, the recital is a celebration of the 200th birthday of Romantic composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886).
Dr. Gualdi will perform Liszt’s St. Francis of Paola Walking on the Waves, Sposalizio and Sonetto 104 del Petrarca from Années de Pèlerinage, Book II (Italy), and Mephisto Waltz no. 1. The program will also feature four sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti, Wolfgang Mozart’s Piano Sonata in C major, K. 330, and
Frederic Chopin’s Berceuse in D-flat major and Scherzo in B-flat minor. The concert is free and open to the public.
Italian pianist Paolo André Gualdi has played recitals in Italy and the United States, both as a soloist and chamber musician. He has been a featured soloist with the Atlanta Philharmonic, Georgia Philharmonic, Wilmington Symphony, DeKalb Symphony, Parma Wind Orchestra, Warren Civic Orchestra, and the University of Georgia Symphony Orchestra. In Italy he has given recitals for the A.Gi.Mus., Accademia Ori, Accademia Amadeus and others. He has also performed for the International Piano Series of Charleston, American Liszt Society, Piccolo
Spoleto Festival USA, Cincinnati Conservatory, and Eastman School of Music in Rochester.
Gualdi began studying piano with his father at the age of five, and continued at the
Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome, Italy. He earned his Piano Diploma with highest honours at the Conservatory Arrigo Boito in Parma with Roberto Cappello.
While in the US, he earned a Masters Degree in Piano Performance at Carnegie Mellon University under the tutelage of Enrique Graf, and a Doctorate of Musical Arts in piano performance at the University of Georgia with Evgeny Rivkin. He participated in master classes with György Sandor, Earl Wild, Menahem Pressler, Sergio Perticaroli, and had several years of private studies with Carlo Maria Dominici.
He has won the top prize in numerous piano competitions, including the European
Competition of Ostuni, the Altruda National Competition of Vasto and the Françoise Grimaldi National Competition of San Polo. Winning the “De Martino Award” at the Ibla International Piano Competition enabled him to study at Elon University. During this period he won the Firsdt Prize in the Southeastern Piano Competition of Whiteville, North Carolina, and the 15th Bartók-Kabalevsky International Competition in Virginia.
Gualdi has served on the faculties of Elon University, Emmanuel College, Oxford
College of Emory University, and is currently Assistant Professor of Music at Francis Marion University.
Learn more about Paolo André Gualdi at www.pagualdi.com. For more information
about the Cultural Awareness Program at Emmanuel College, visit our website, www.ec.edu, or contact Dr. Emma Pettyjohn at epettyjohn@ec.edu.
[Editor's comment: What a joy and a personal delight to promote this upcoming concert by Pianist Paolo André Gualdi. Emmanuel College is giving back to our community and area of northeast Georgia an investment in the arts of music to enrich all of our lives.
Emmanuel College is located on US Highway 29 about 30 miles from Athens, GA. The campus is absolutely beautiful, and is looking more and more like a major university. I am impressed not only by the new buildings and landcaping, and plans for a megaplex athletic center, but most of all by the faculty, staff, and the most valuable resource of all, the outstanding students.
A week ago, I had the privilege of speaking to the students in the School of Christian Ministries in their chapel service. Lieutenant Adam Erwin, a Navy Chaplain Candidate joined me in making a presentation to these students about the great opportunities that military chaplains have, and it is worthy of consideration for a career, providing God calls a young person to this ministry.]
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Fri, November 4, 2011
by Hugh Morgan