Carlos Piantini

Carlos Piantini (1972)

Carlos Alberto Piantini Espinal (born May 9, 1927 in Santo Domingo , † March 26, 2010 in Port Jervis ) was a Dominican violinist and conductor .

Life

Piantini made his debut as a violin soloist at the age of ten. He studied in Mexico with Henryk Szeryng and was a member of the Orquesta Sinfónica de México under the direction of Carlos Chávez Ramírez . In New York he was a student of Joseph Fuchs at the Juilliard School of Music .

In 1956 he became the violinist of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra led by Leonard Bernstein . In 1969 he made his debut as conductor of this orchestra with Verdi's Requiem . From 1970 he studied conducting with Hans Swarowsky in Vienna. In 1972 he conducted a performance of Mahler's First Symphony by the Vienna Philharmonic . From 1972 to 1973 he was the Dominican Republic's cultural ambassador to the United Nations.

From 1973 to 1978 Piantini was artistic director of the Teatro Nacional de la República Dominicana . He then directed the newly founded Caracas Philharmonic Orchestra until 1983 . From 1985 to 1986 he conducted seventeen concerts at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples. Since 1988 he has given annual concerts with the Orchestra Alessandro Scarlatti of the RAI in Naples. At the Festival del Valle d'Itria in 1990 he conducted a performance of Bizet's opera Die Perlenfischer , and in 1992, on the anniversary of America's discovery, the performance of Antonio Braga's opera 1492 . In addition, he was director of the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de la República Dominicana from 1984 to 1994 .

In 1998 he recorded Ernesto Peñas Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and the Cuban guitarist Rubén González Ávila Román Ernesto Peñas . In the same year he conducted a performance of Antonio Braga's oratorio Santo Domingo de Guzmán at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples. In 1999 he conducted a staged performance of Bizet's Carmen at the Teatro Nacional de Santo Domingo and performed Michel Camilo's piano concerto with the composer as soloist with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional .

In 2009 the main hall of the Teatro National was named after Piantini as Gran Sala Maestro Carlos Piantini . In the same year, the Dominican Congress unanimously recognized him as the National Treasure of Music . Piantini was honorary conductor of the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional until his death.

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personal data
SURNAME	Piantini, Carlos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Piantini Espinal, Carlos Alberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dominican violinist and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH	May 9, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH	Santo Domingo
DATE OF DEATH	March 26, 2010
Place of death	Port Jervis