Filippo Balducci

Filippo Balducci graduated from the "N.Piccinni" Conservatory with honourable mention in Piano performance with Angela Montemurro Lentini. After that he studied with Fausto Zadra at the International Piano School in Lausanne (Switzerland) and of Aquiles Delle Vigne at the "Alfred Cortot" Ecole Normale in Paris (France). Student at the masterclasses of Sergio Fiorentino, Jorg Demus, Gyorgy Sandor, Paul Badura Skoda, Michele Marvulli, Luiz De Moura Castro, Lev Natochenny, Vladimir Feltsmann, and of Pavel Vernikov, Igor Oistrach, Konstantin Bogino and ?Trio of Trieste? for chamber music, he has been awarded several scholarships. Ha was laureated in several piano competitions: first prize at the ?F.P.Neglia? International Piano Competition of Enna (Italy) and at the Nationals Piano Competitions of Osimo, Lametia T. and Caserta (Italy); second prize at the AMSA World Piano Competition of Cincinnati (Ohio - USA), the International competitions of Pinerolo, Lucca, Morcone (Italy); third prizen at the International Competition of Senigallia (Italy). He gave recitals in Europe and USA (Milan, Arezzo, Rome, Perugia, Meran, Neaples, Ravello, Bari, Taranto, Pescara, Campobasso, Paris, Nice, Lausanne, Mannheim, Madrid, Bilbao, Hartford, Cincinnati) and played with the symphony orchestras of Pescara, Bari, Taranto, with the Italian Philharmonics of Trento, the Italian Symphonietta of Bergamo, the Insubric Orchestra, the Camerata Mozart of Lausanne and other chamber orchestras being conducted by Julius Kalmar, Josif Conta, Marc Andreae, Fausto Zadra, Umberto Cattini, Aldo Sisillo, Francesco Lentini, Domenico Molinini, Roberto Misto. Chamber music performances of the repertoire for Duo, Quartet and Quintet with strings in Italy, Belgium (De Singel Auditorium), Switzerland. He recorded radio broadcasts for the 2nd National Italian Network and for WGUC of Cincinnati, USA and CD for "Stradivarius". Assistant to Prof. Zadra at the "Mediterranean Festival " of Cullera (Valencia), Spain and at the International Piano School of Lausanne and to Prof. Delle Vigne at "Bain de Musique Festival" of Flaine, he is actually teacher in piano performance at the Conservatoire of Bari. He gives master classes at the "Aurofonie" Academy of Lugano (Switzerland).