Matteo Cardelli - Piano Recital - FREE EVENT

Matteo Cardelli was born in Ferrara in 1992, and in 2010 he graduated in Piano with top marks and honors with M° F. Lanzoni at the Music Conservatory in Ferrara (Italy). He also obtained the highest marks and honors in 2013 for his Master Level in Piano and in 2014 for his Master Level in Chamber Music. He is currently attending the Master in Music Performance with M° F. Gamba at the Musik Hochschule of Basel. He attended Master Classes with M° P. Badura-Skoda, A. Gavrilov and J. Swann, and also studied with M° M. Minguzzi, B. Petrushansky, and K. Bogino, with whom he focused on both piano and chamber music at the Music Academy S. Cecilia in Bergamo (Italy).

Selected as one of the finalists of the Premio Busoni 2015 competition, he was also a finalist of the XXVIII Premio Venezia (2011), and won 1st prizes in several national and international competitions, including: Premio Rotary (2003), International Piano Competition Città di Pesaro (2004), XVI Dino Caravita Competition (2007), VI International Piano Competition M. Fortini (2008), XXIV National Piano Competition J.S. Bach (2009), X and XI Music Competitions Città di Riccione (2012 and 2013), I and IV Crescendo Prize-Città di Firenze (2010 e 2013), three editions of the Forum Pianistico Internazionale di Chioggia (2013, 2014 and 2015), XXI Concorso Rospigliosi (2014), VII Piove di Sacco Competition (2014), and Città di Albenga international piano competition (2015). He also won the special prizes of critics and public in the International Piano Competition Italia Prize – Piano Olympus (2011) and the “L. Berman” prize for the best interpretation of Russian music at the XI Piano Competition S. Giovanni Teatino (2013).

He performed in important venues, both as a soloist and in chamber music ensembles, including: New York (for the Carnegie Series), Switzerland (Giovaninarte concerts), Sweden (Aurora Chamber Music Festival), Milan (Auditorium Gaber-Palazzo Pirelli for the Società dei Concerti theatre foundation), Venice (La Fenice Theatre and Palazzo Cavagnis), Florence (AgiMus and Palazzo Martelli concerts), Spoleto theatre (Music Fest Perugia), Lucca (Chamber Music Festival). In 2013 he recorded for the Vatican Radio while in 2014 he recorded his first CD in trio for Musikstrasse at the Trafalgar recording Studios in Rome.

He played with important orchestras, including the soloists of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra (Stagione Ferrara Musica, 2011), the Solisti di Perugia orchestra, the Città di Ferrara orchestra and the symphony orchestra of the Chioggia Festival (Venice), with which he performed the Rachmaninov piano concerto n.2 and the Tchaikowsky piano concerto n.1, directed by M° Perini.

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PROGRAMME

L. van Beethoven
Sonata op.81a "Les Adieux"

F. Chopin
Polonaise-Fantaisie op.61

A. Scriabin
Sonata n.5 op.53

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R. Schumann
Fantasia op.17