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First Prize Winner of the 2001 Cleveland International Piano
Competition, Finalist at the Twelfth Van Cliburn International Piano
Competition in 2005, Laureates of the 2003 Honens International
Piano Competition (Calgary, Canada) and the 2006 Axa Dublin
International Piano Competition, Italian pianist Roberto
Plano
has performed throughout North America. Important venues here
include Alice Tully Hall in New York City’s Lincoln Center, where
he performed the American premiere of Luis de Pablo’s Retratos y
Transcripciones; Severance Hall in Cleveland, National Arts Centre
in Ottawa, and others. He regularly performs in Europe – notably
at Sala Verdi in Milan, Salle Cortot in Paris and at the
Herculessaal and Gasteig in Munich.
He has appeared with orchestras in Italy (Pomeriggi Musicali),
Germany (Rheinland-Pfalz), Spain (Valencia Symphony), Czech Republic
(Marienbad Symphony), Slovakia (Kosice State Symphony), Romania (Oradea,
Sibiu, Targu Mures Symphonies), Japan (Sendai Symphony), USA
(Spokane, Akron, and Glens Falls (NY) Symphony Orchestras, among
others) and Canada (Calgary Philarmonic), under the direction of Sir
Neville Marriner, James Conlon, Jahja Ling, Enrique Garcia Assensio,
Gianluigi Gelmetti, Donato Renzetti, Ari Raisilianen, Kerry Stratton
and Gary Sheldon, among others. He has been a featured recitalist at
the internationally acclaimed 57th Chopin Festival in Duszniki,
Poland; the Festival at Sandpoint, Savannah Music Festival and
Wassermann Piano Festival in the USA; the Encuentro de musica y
Accademia de Santander (Spain), and the Settimane Musicali di Stresa
(Italy).
Roberto Plano's friendly and outgoing personality has made him a
favorite for guest appearances on a number of radio stations,
including NPR’s Performance Today, WNYC in New York City,
WGBH’s Classics in the morning (Boston), CBC's In
Performance (Toronto), BBC In Tune, and RadioRai 3
Grammelot in Italy. As a teacher, he has given public master classes
at Kent State University, Augusta State University, Utah State
University and the Cleveland Institute of Music (USA), at the
Alberta Conservatory (Edmonton, Canada), at the Conservatory of San
Juan (Puerto Rico), and in all the major cities of Schlewsig-Holstein,
Germany.
Plano has two recordings: a CD of works by Chopin, Liszt and
Scriabin on Italy’s Sipario Dischi label and a disc of works by
Liszt on the Azica label. A new recording project which includes
Brahms Sonata op.5 and Klavierstucke op.118 was released in 2006 by
the Canadian label Arktos.
Having already earned an international reputation for his fine
collaborative playing, Mr. Plano has collaborated with some of the
finest chamber music groups in the world, including the Takacs, the
Fine Arts, the Jupiter and the Enso String Quartets.
As a result of his success at the most recent Van Cliburn
Competition, he appeared in the film documentaries "In the
Heart of Music" and "Encores" (together with James
Conlon and Menahem Pressler) which was aired on PBS stations across
the United States, as well as in Europe through the satellite
channel MEZZO. In 2006, Plano was chosen to participate in the DVD
recording “A Masterclass with Jean-Michel Damase”, filmed in
Paris by ARTE at Salle Cortot; and together with Philippe Entremont,
a second video project about the music of Mozart, broadcast by NHK
in Japan.
Plano was also named the “Best Ensemble Performer” at the 2003
Honens Competition for his performances with cellist Shauna Rolston
and soprano Ingrid Attrot. He was also the winner of the "Best
Recital" and "Best Performance of the Commissioned
Work" prizes at the 2006 Axa Dublin International Piano
Competition. In other international piano competitions (after having
won First Prizes in fifteen National Competition in Italy), Mr.
Plano was a competition finalist at the 2003 Busoni in Italy, a
prizewinner at the Sendai (Japan, 2001), and at the Jose Iturbi
(Spain, 2000).
Mr. Plano has studied at the École Normale “Cortot” in Paris
with Nelson Delle Vigne, where in 2004 he earned the “Diplome
Superieur De Concertiste” with First Prize and special mention:
“à l’unanimité et avec felicitations du jurie”. While
studying in Paris, he was selected to participate in public
Masterclasses with such distinguished artists as Philippe Entremont,
Aldo Ciccolini, Joaquin Achucarro and François-René Duchable. In
2003 he earned the International Certificate for Piano Artists from
École Normale in collaboration with the University of Florida.
Other teachers have included Eli Perrotta, Walter Krafft, Lazar
Berman, and Bruno Canino. At present he is studying with Menahem
Pressler, Claude Frank, Dimitri Bashkirov, Leon Fleisher, Fou Ts'ong
and Andreas Staier at Lake Como Academy, and with Bruno Marengoni at
the “Fondazione Romanini” of Brescia.
In 2007, Mr. Plano made his debut at the Festival "Les
Fêtes Musicales" di Biarritz, France, toured Italy playing
Beethoven's Triple Concerto, toured Canada and the U.S. (Edmonton,
Calgary, Vancouver, Cincinnati, Forth Worth, Austin, Los Alamos,
Denver, and New York's Steinway Hall), played with the Vienna
Concert-Verein Orchestra at the Weston Recital Hall in Toronto, and
made his debut with the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa
conducted by Pinchas Zukerman.
Highlights of the 2007-08 season included Mr. Plano's debut with the
strings of the Berliner Philarmoniker in Italy, his debut recital at
London's Wigmore Hall, and concerts with the Milan, Forth Worth,
Calgary, Bakersfield, Reading and Yakima Symphony Orchestras, plus
new collaborations with groups such as the St. Petersburg String
Quartet. North American recital engagements are scheduled in Oregon,
Texas, Minnesota, Arizona, New York, Illinois, and British Columbia.
In his spare time Mr. Plano enjoys composing hymns for organ and
choir for his hometown church in Induno Olona near Varese.
Roberto Plano is represented in North America by
Altman Artists.
( 2007-08 )
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