Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 18 (Live) (Leonardo Colafelice)

Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 18
Performed by Leonardo Colafelice and the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Giordano Bellincampi
I Moderato
II Adagio sostenuto 11:50
III Allegro scherzando 24:30
ABOUT LEONARDO COLAFELICE
In August 2016, Leonardo Colafelice was awarded the Second Prize in the prestigious "Cleveland International Piano Competition" and also received 3 special awards: Audience Prize, Best Performance of a Russian Piece, and The Junior Jury Prize.
Prior to that, Leonardo was awarded with several international prizes: in May 2014, at the age of 18, Leonardo Colafelice was one of the six finalists during the "Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition" in Tel Aviv. At the end of the competition, he also received three special prizes: Best Performer of a Classical Concerto, Best Performer of a Chopin Composition, and finally, Most Outstanding Pianist up to 22 Years of Age. In October 2014, he was also awarded the "A. B. Michelangeli" prize from the city of Eppan in Northern Italy.
Between 2012 and 2013, he won several important international awards: Gold Medal at the "Gina Bachauer Young Artists International Piano Competition" in Salt Lake City (USA); First Prize at the "Thomas & Evon Cooper International Competition" in Oberlin and Cleveland (USA); Gold Medal at the "Eastman Young Artists International Piano Competition" in Rochester (USA); all in 2012. In 2013, he was awarded Gold Medal at the "Yamaha USASU International Piano Competition" in Arizona, where Martha Argerich herself personally handed him his Award; First Prize at the "Aarhus Competition" in Denmark; and finally, First Prize at the "Hilton Head Competition" in South Carolina (USA).
He was also the First Prize winner at many other international piano competitions including:"The Young Pianists of the North International Piano Competition" in Newcastle (UK); "The International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition for Young Artists" in Szafarnia (Poland); "The Concours Musical de France" in Paris; "The International Tournament of Music" (TIM) in Verona (Italy); and "The Premio Città di Padova" in Padua (Italy).
Born in 1995 in Altamura (Bari), Southern Italy, Leonardo graduated as a pupil of Pasquale Iannone at the renowned "Niccolò Piccinni Conservatory of Music" in Bari.
He has been teaching Piano Performance at the "F. Torrefranca" Conservatory of Music in Vibo Valentia since 2015, and at the age of 22, this makes him the youngest conservatory teacher in all of Italy.
Colafelice is regularly invited to play in the principal Italian cities including Milano, Torino, Roma, Bologna, Messina, Palermo, Catania, Bari, Padova, Venezia, Verona, Caserta, etc., as well as abroad in various venues in the United States, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Denmark, Switzerland, Poland, Hungary, Israel, Morocco, Turkey, Norway, Chile, and Georgia.
He has performed with numerous and prestigious orchestras like: The Cleveland Orchestra, The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, The Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, The Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra, The Chile Symphony Orchestra, The Morocco Philharmonic Orchestra, The Orchestra dei Pomeriggi Musicali, The Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto and many more.
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