Italian pianist Paolo André Gualdi has performed in the United
States and abroad for music organizations such as Accademia Amadeus (Italy);
Cadogan Hall (UK); Musée Würth (France); Xinghai Hall and University of
Shanghai (China); Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil); Fundación
Pablo Atchugarry and SODRE (Uruguay); International Piano Series of Charleston,
American Liszt Society and Piatigorsky Foundation (U.S.A.). Gualdi has appeared
with many orchestras including the Georgia Philharmonic, Atlanta Philharmonic,
and the Universidade de Caxias do Sul Symphony Orchestra. He has recorded for
Mark Records and IFO Classics, and his performances have been broadcasted by
radios such as BBC, NPR, Clásica 650 and Radio Vaticana.
Gualdi
began studying piano with his father at the age of five, and continued at the Conservatory
of Santa Cecilia in Rome, Italy, with Carmela Pistillo. He earned his Piano Diploma
with highest honors at the Conservatory Arrigo Boito in Parma under the guidance
of Roberto Cappello. While in the United States, he earned a masters at
Carnegie Mellon University, and a Doctorate of Musical Arts at the University
of Georgia. Gualdi worked extensively with Carlo Maria Dominici, Enrique Graf,
and Evgeny Rivkin, and took part in master classes with György Sandor, Earl
Wild, Sergio Perticaroli and Menahem Pressler, among others.
Gualdi 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 with Victoria Fischer.
During this period he won the first prize in the 15th Bartók-Kabalevsky International
Competition.
Gualdi
regularly gives master classes and lectures nationally and internationally at universities,
conservatories and other music institutes, including the New World School of
the Arts and College of Charleston; the federal universities of Porto Alegre,
Santa Maria and Pelotas (Brazil); Cittadella della Musica (Italy), and others.
He has served on the faculties of Elon University, Emmanuel College and Oxford
College of Emory University. He is the founder and artistic director of the
South Carolina Chamber Music Festival and is currently associate professor of music
at Francis Marion University and on the music faculty at the University of
North Carolina Wilmington.
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