Enrico Pace

Enrico Pace is an Italian pianist of international renown.

Biography

Born in Rimini, Italy in 1967. He studied piano with Franco Scala, mainly at the Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro. [ [http://www.concertsfribourg.ch/artists.html Société des Concerts de Fribourg] ] He was also active as conductor and composer. In 1987 he won first prize at the International Yamaha Competition in Stresa and in 1989 he was first prize winner of the Second International Franz Liszt Piano Competition. Later Enrico Pace performed in many European cities and played with the symphonic orchestras of Sydney and Melbourne on an Australian tour. He also worked with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and with the Noord-Nederlands Orchestra. Over time he turned from a Liszt expert into an all-round musician and this is widely appreciated.

From 1997/1998, he started a long term co-operation with violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann, with whom Pace gave concerts in many European, South-American and Far Eastern countries. Other musicians with whom he often performs are horn player Marie-Luise Neunecker and pianist Igor Roma. [ [http://www.meesterpianisten.nl/biografie.php?ArtiestID=27 Riaskoff Concert Management presenteert: serie Meesterpianisten ] ]

Enrico Pace has given many recitals in Europe, among others in the Amsterdam Concert Hall (he already performed four times there in the Master Pianists Series), Milan (Sala Verdi and Teatro alla Scala), Rome, Brescia/Bergamo, Florence, Berlin, Munich, Dortmund, Dublin and in some South American cities. As part of a Maurizio Pollini project Enrico Pace gave a recital in Salzburg in 1999 for the Salzburger Festspiele (Festival Concerts). In the summer of 2001 his debut recitals at the Festivals of Husum (Raritäten der Klaviermusik) (Piano Music Rarities) and La Rogue-d’Anthéron made a profound impression and he was immediately invited to perform at the 2002 recitals as well. [ [http://www.amadeusonline.net/news.php?ID=1116997200 AmadeusOnline.net - News ] ] He regularly performs with important orchestras, such as the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, The Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestras of Sydney and Melbourne (as part of a tour in Australia and New-Zealand), the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, the MDR Symphony Orchestra of Leipzig, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Warsaw, the Czech State Philharmonic Orchestra of Brno, the orchestras of Johannesburg and Cape Town, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, the Gelders Orchestra, the Brabants Orchestra, The Limburg Symphony Orchestra, the Northern Netherlands Orchestra, the Noordhollands Philharmonic Orchestra and the National Youth Orchestra.

In the season of 2003/2004 Enrico Pace made several important debuts: with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Yakov Kreizberg, the Bamberger Symphony Orchestra conducted by Walter Weller and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. Enrico Pace also worked with, among others, the conductors Andrey Boreyko, Mark Elder, Janos Fürst, Junichi Hirokami, Eliahu Inbal, Jan Latham-Koenig, Kazimirz Kord, Alexander Liebreich, Gianandrea Noseda, Tuomas Ollila, Tadaaki Otaka, Stanislav Skrowaczewski, Bruno Weil en Antoni Wit. [ [http://www.meesterpianisten.nl/biografie.php?ArtiestID=27 Riaskoff Concert Management presenteert: serie Meesterpianisten ] ]

Apart from doing concerts with orchestras, Enrico Pace has also played chamber music: among others he played with the Shostakovich Quartet, the Vanbrugh Quartet and the Prometeo Quartet and he participated several times in Isabelle van Keulen’s Delft Chamber Music Festival. So far pianist Leif Ove Andsnes invited him twice to perform at his chamber music festival in Risor. Enrico Pace also performed at the chamber music festivals of Kuhmo (Finland), Stresa (Italy), West Cork (Ireland) and Moritzburg (Germany). [ [http://www.concertsfribourg.ch Société des Concerts de Fribourg/artists.html]

References

External links

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqCEhmqsSnY Enrico Pace's performance of Liszt's Totentanz]
* [http://www.theatredelaville-paris.com/musique/frank-peter-zimmermann-enrico-pace.html Theatre de la Ville et Theatre des Abbesses - Paris]