Gabriele Baldocci
Gabriele Baldocci, pianist, conductor and professor of piano at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music in London, was born in Livorno (Italy). He gave concerts in very important musical centers like Tonhalle in Zurich, Parco della Musica in Rome, Teatro Colòn in Buenos Aires, Ceramic Crystal Hall in Seoul, Sala Verdi in Milan, Auditorium RTSI in Lugano, Teatro Ghione in Rome, Palacio de Festivales in Santander, Teatro Rossetti in Trieste, Teatro Ponchielli in Cremona, Parnassos Hall in Athens, Teatro Fraschini in Pavia, Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, Le Poisson Rouge in New York and many others. Baldocci played for many important festivals like Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano, Vendsyssel Festival in Denmark, Martha Argerich Festival in Buenos Aires, Bologna Festival, Pietrasanta in Concerto International Festival, Erasmo Capilla International Music Festival in Mexico, Dublin International Festival and International Beethoven Festival in Chicago. He recorded Nino Rota's Complete works for Strings and Piano with violinist Marco Fornaciari, Michael Glenn Williams piano music for Stradivarius and he is working on Beethoven Complete Symphonies transcribed by Liszt for piano solo, which is being published by Dynamic Records. Recently Dynamic also published a live recording of one of his duo recitals with Martha Argerich. His performances are regularly broadcasted on radios and TVs and the italian classical TV "Classica" has produced a documentary about him.
Baldocci is official Ambassador, Performer and Professor of the Martha Argerich Presents Project and he frequently plays in various chamber music formations like duos, trios and quintets. Since many years he plays in piano duo with Martha Argerich and he forms a stable piano duo with the Argentinean pianist Daniel Rivera.
He won prizes at several important piano competitions like "Alessandro Casagrande International Piano Competition" and "Martha Argerich Piano Competition" . He studied at the Imola Piano Academy with Franco Scala and at the International Piano Academy on Lake Como with William Grant Naboré, Lèon Fleisher, Alicia De Larrocha, Dmitri Bashkirov, Fou Ts'Ong, Charles Rosen, Andreas Staier and Claude Frank. He received his Doctorate in Piano Performance at the Santa Cecilia?National Academy in Rome, where he studied with Sergio Perticaroli.
Very active as a teacher, he is regularly invited to give Masterclasses in very important Universities like Sydney Conservatorium, Daejin University in South Korea, Pacific Lutheran University in Washington, Grand Valley State University in Michigan, Elmira College in New York, University of Southern Mississippi, and he teaches at the "InFondi Musica Academy" with Alessandra Brustia and at the Sesto Fiorentino Music School in Florence. Gabriele Baldocci is professor in the piano faculty of Potenza State Conservatory, in the South of Italy. Many of his students won prizes in important piano competitions.
Repertoire
Piano Concerto in D major
Piano Concerto n. 1
Piano Concerto n. 2
Piano Concerto n. 3
Piano Concerto n. 4
6 Bagatelles op. 126
Sonata op. 53 “Waldstein”
Sonata op. 31 n. 2
Concerto n. 1
Concerto n. 2
Impromptu n. 1
Impromptu n. 2
Impromptu n. 3
Fantasie-Impromptu
Balada n. 1
Balada n. 2
Balada n. 3
Balada n. 4
Piano Concerto in F
Rapsodia in Blu
Piano Concerto
Piano Concerto in D major
Sonata n. 3
Sinfonia n. 1
Sinfonia n. 2
Sinfonia n. 3
Sinfonia n. 5
Sinfonia n. 6
Reminiscences de “Don Juan”
Ave Maria de Jerusalem da “I lombardi”
Reminiscences de “Boccanegra”
Elsas brautzug zum Münster dal “Lohengrin” Isoldes Liebestod dal “Tristano e Isotta”
Feierlicher Marsch zum heiligen Gral dal “Parsifal”
Piano Concerto KV271 “Jeunehomme”
Piano Concerto KV414
Piano Concerto KV453
Piano Concerto KV488
Piano Concerto n. 1
Piano Concerto n. 2
Piano Concerto n. 3
Piano Concerto n. 1
Piano Concerto n. 2
Piano Concerto in G
La Valse
Moments Musicaux
Piano Concerto
Allegro op. 8
Carnaval op. 9
Improvisaciones
Piano Concerto n. 1
Piano Concerto n. 2
Piano Concerto n. 1
Piano Concerto n. 2
"Un pianista de una capacidad formidable."
"... Baldocci dio forma al sonido con un gran rango de matices, permitiendo la construcción de los volúmenes con fraseos largos, como en un contexto orquestal, conduciendo la magnífica presentación temática del tutti hasta el final.. El modelado poético del final del tema, así como los motivos acariciados a la vez por cuerdas y maderas, llegaron con una efectividad particular..."
“... Baldocci ofreció como bis un obsequio especial, inspirado en las tradiciones de la improvisación clásica: una improvisación espontánea sobre una melodía y una emoción elegidas por el público: el Danubio azul y las sensaciones de "tristeza" y "alivio" fueron trenzadas imaginativamente en una mixtura Lisztiana que evolucionó en direcciones inesperadas y armónicamente luminosas, culminando en una cadencia enfática. Una forma especial y memorable de coronar un recital revitalizante."