Pina Antonelli
Concert Pianist
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Pina Antonelli, pianist, has received world recognition, having performed in Lincoln Center (NYC), Kennedy Center (Washington D C), the War Memorial Opera House (San Francisco), the San Jose (California) Performing Arts Center and in numerous other major concert halls both here and abroad. She has held recitals aboard the Cunard Liner QE II on several voyages and been a guest of Royalty around the world. Her extensive chamber music experience includes performances at Spoleto, Stresa, Turin and in New York under the direction of noted conductor Dr. James Wagner Chapman. She has worked in conjunction with many illustrious artists in the United States and in Europe. Ms.Antonelli has premiered works of David Amram, Nicolas Flagello, Vittorio Giannini, Ned Rorem and other celebrated composers. Scholarships and awards assisted her studies at the Eastman School of Music, the Manhattan School and the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. While on a Fulbnght Grant in Europe, she was welcomed into the master classes of several eminent pianists including and especially Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli of Italy. Ms. Antonelli was awarded the Artist Diploma - a coveted and rarely given prize - for her work at the Naples Conservatory. At the young age of 19, a winner of the International Bach Competition, she played both books of the Well -Tempered Clavichord from memory - a feat recognized by the esteemed jury. In 1989, Ms. Antonelli, Emmanual Ax and Abbey Simon were invited by the International Chopin Foundation to play special recitals benefiting young pianists sent to Poland for the competition. In 1993, Harold C Schonberg, the Pulitzer Prize winner and retired senior music critic of the New York Times (author of several books on great pianists and conductors notably the biography of Vladimir Horowitz) had this to say upon hearing Ms. Antonelli play at his home by special invitation: "The talented Pina - Madonna face, ivory fingers, musical brain, has phenomenal technique, great freedom and personality in her style (but controlled) and represents the Golden Era of playing." Rave responses, standing ovations and enthusiastic reviews have followed Ms. Antonelli's programs, (which typically have offered crowd-pleasing blockbusters) leaving her audiences enraptured. |
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"She is a female Horowitz."-Le Figaro, Paris "Miss Antonelli is a born pianist, of the quality which makes child's play of the Brahms-Paganini variations." -Combat, Paris "Unusual keyboard facility - effortless, it seems.'' -Le Monde, Paris "An Italian who can play Beethoven. The playing was powerful and moving." -Tageblatt, Berlin "Pina Antonelli is a charming stage personality and an unexcelled pianist." -Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin "Emotional intensity and powerful technique." -Sovietskaya Cultura, Moscow "Very expressive playing ... virtuosity of the highest level." -Givani Michailov, Leningrad "Able to mold each note to her desires and to project great power and passion ... Has a rare sense of timing." -Washington Post "Involved, concentrated musicianship..." - Washington Star "Plays with imagination, big and healthy tone is positively a talent, has the aggressiveness and the authority of a virtuoso." -Erno Balogh. Washington, D.C "Pina Antonelli displayed a fiery termperament and mastery of the keyboard in a long and difficult program." -Rochester Democrat "has musical brain; phenomenal technique, great freedom and personality in her style (but controlled) and represents the Golden Era of playing" -Harold C. Schonberg, Pulitzer Prize winning senior music critic of the New York Times "Wit, elegance and subtlety! Complexities virtually non-existent, intuitiveness for interpretation... romantic thunder... a place among the tone poets. Diabolically electrifying, her mastery of the intricacies, rhythmic incisiveness, uninhibited approach and phenomenal pace were commanding. Imagination, nuance and passion... the antithesis of a materialist... No cold, spiritless formalist here"! -Joan Persinger-Witzman, Newport Express
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