Roberta Pili

Roberta Pili (born December 3, 1968 in Cagliari ) is an Italian pianist , author and mentor for polyphonic piano playing and sound aesthetics .

Life

Roberta Pili was born into a family of musicians and received her first piano lessons from her father when she was five. At the age of eight she won first prizes at national youth piano competitions in Italy .

A little later she continued her musical education at the Conservatorio GP da Palestrina in her hometown, where she graduated with distinction at the age of seventeen.

Masterclasses followed at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena , which finally gave her the further impetus to continue studying piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and to complete it there.

Then I met Dafydd Llywelyn in Munich . He became her main musical mentor through his formative influence on the tradition of polyphonic piano playing.

In 2009 she played the last five piano sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven (Op. 101, Op. 106 " Hammerklaviersonate ", Op. 109, Op. 110, Op. 111) in one concert evening in Carnegie Hall . All ticket proceeds from this evening were donated to the BCRF, The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, founded by Evelyn Lauder .

In 2011 she played the same concert program at Sogakudo Concert Hall in Tokyo as the start of a concert tour in Japan .

In 2011 she made a guest appearance at the Liszt Festival Raiding with the concert program Totentanz and at the Vienna State Opera with the Concerto en Re by Johann Sebastian Bach (choreographed) for the premiere of the Ballet School of the Vienna State Opera.

She is the founder and president of the Charles-Valentin Alkan Society of Vienna - Institute for Polyphonic Piano Playing and Sound Aesthetics.

Roberta Pili lives in Vienna.

Prizes and awards

• 1988: Concorso pianistico internazionale Alessandro Casagrande Terni / Italy - 2nd prize (1st prize not awarded) and special prize "Maurice Ravel"
• 1988: Elena-Rombro-Stepanow piano competition at the Vienna University of Music - 1st prize
• 1991: L. Bösendorfer piano competition in Vienna - 1st prize
• 1995: International Mozart Competition Salzburg - 2nd prize
• 2010: Premio Navicella Sardegna in Castelsardo - The most prestigious award ceremony in Sardinia for personalities who have distinguished themselves at home and internationally.

Discography

• 2008: Album Mirrors , released under the own label RPPR - Roberta Pili Piano Records®

Web links

• Homepage of Roberta Pili

Individual evidence

1. ↑ L. v. Beethoven "The Last Big Five" - Roberta Pili in Carnegie Hall 2009
2. ↑ Pact with the devil or song of an angel? - Roberta Pili at the Liszt Festival Raiding 2011
3. ↑ Concerto en Ré ( Memento of the original from June 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Roberta Pili at the Vienna State Opera 2011 
4. ^ The Charles-Valentin Alkan Society of Vienna - Institute for Polyphonic Piano Playing and Sound Aesthetics
5. ↑ Concorso Internazionale Pianistico Alessandro Casagrande ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ^ Premio Navicella Sardegna - Award to Roberta Pili 2010