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Italian
pianist Paolo André Gualdi has played recitals in Italy, France, Brazil
and the United States for music organizations such as A.Gi.Mus.,
Accademia Ori, and Accademia Amadeus (Italy); Universidade Federal do
Rio Grande so Sul and Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (Brazil);
Musée Würth (France); International Piano Series of Charleston,
American Liszt Society, Cincinnati Conservatory, and the Piccolo
Spoleto Festival (U.S.A.). He has also appeared with many orchestras
including the Georgia Philharmonic, Wilmington Symphony, Atlanta
Philharmonic, Florence Symphony, DeKalb Symphony, 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 NPR 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. He
earned his Piano Diploma with highest honours at the Conservatory
Arrigo Boito in Parma with Roberto Cappello. While in the U.S., he
earned a Masters Degree in Piano Performance at Carnegie Mellon
University under the tutelage of Enrique Graf, and a Doctorate of
Musical Arts in piano performance at the University of Georgia with
Evgeny Rivkin. He has also studied with world-renown pianists György
Sandor, Earl Wild, Menahem Pressler, Sergio Perticaroli, and has worked
extensively with Carlo Maria Dominici (a pupil of Michelangeli and
Rosina Lhévinne).
He 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 in North Carolina.
During this period he won the First Prize in the 15th Bartók-Kabalevsky
International Competition in Virginia.
Gualdi regularly gives master classes and lectures nationally and
internationally at universities, conservatories and other music
institutes, including New Mexico State University and College of
Charleston (U.S.A.); the universities of Porto Alegre, Santa Maria and
Campinas (Brazil); Cittadella della Musica (Italy), and others. Having
previously served on the faculties of Elon University, Emmanuel College
and Oxford College of Emory University, he is currently Associate
Professor of Music at Francis Marion University and founder and
artistic director of the South Carolina Chamber Music Festival.