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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 (Milan Symphony Orchestra "Verdi"), 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, Bruno Canino, William Grant Naboré (Lake Como Academy) and
Bruno Marengoni.
Recently 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 Zuckerman.
Highlights of last seasons also 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 June of 2009 he was soloist with the Houston Symphony Orchestra;
last season’s highlights also included 7 tours in the USA with
appearances at such festivals as Ravinia Festival and Gilmore
International Keyboard Festival. In 2011 he will be soloist with the
Illinois Symphony Orchestra and at summer Festivals in New York,
Oregon, and Montana.
He was also invited to serve on the jury of the Singapore National
Piano and Violin Competition (December 2007) and of the Philadelphia
International J.S. Bach Competition (March 2008).
He lives in Italy in Travedona Monate, near Milan, where he teaches
regularly at the new International Piano Academy "Lake Monate",
created with his wife in the summer of 2008.During the summer he
also regularly teaches at the Music International Masterclasses in
Portogruaro, Italy
In his spare time Mr. Plano enjoys composing hymns for organ and
choir for his hometown church.
Roberto Plano is represented in North America by
Altman Artists.
( 2010 )
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