Pietro De Maria
After winning the Critics' Prize at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1990, Pietro De Maria received the First Prize at the Dino Ciani International Competition in Milan (1990), at the Géza Anda in Zurich (1994). In 1997 he was awarded the Mendelssohn Prize in Hamburg.
His intense concert activity sees him as a soloist with prestigious orchestras and with conductors such as Roberto Abbado, Gary Bertini, Myung-Whun Chung, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Daniele Gatti, Alan Gilbert, Eliahu Inbal, Marek Janowski, Ton Koopman, Michele Mariotti, Ingo Metzmacher, Gianandrea Noseda, Corrado Rovaris, Yutaka Sado, Sándor Végh, Jonathan Webb.
Born in Venice in 1967, De Maria began studying piano with Giorgio Vianello and graduated under the guidance of Gino Gorini at the Conservatory of his city, later perfecting himself with Maria Tipo at the Geneva Conservatory, where he obtained the Premier Prix de Virtuosité with distinction in 1988.
His repertoire ranges from Bach to Ligeti and he is the first Italian pianist to have publicly performed the complete works of Chopin in six concerts. He has carried out a Bach project, performing the two books of the Well-Tempered Clavier and the Goldberg Variations and, more recently, he has completed the complete Beethoven Sonatas and Concertos.
He has recorded the complete works of Chopin, the Well-Tempered Clavier and the Goldberg Variations for DECCA, the Chopin Concertos with Daniele Rustioni and the ORT for Dynamic, receiving important awards from specialized critics, including Diapason, International Piano, MusicWeb-International and Pianists.
Pietro De Maria is an Academician of Santa Cecilia and teaches at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and at the Academy of Music in Pinerolo.
Great music in Milan
The PIANO IN THE UNIVERSITY Project is the result of an agreement between the Milan branch of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and one of the most important manufacturers in the world of musical instruments, Kawai Pianos of Hamamatsu (Japan). Its promoters are the Master Davide Cabassi (professor at the Milan Conservatory) and Prof. Enrico Reggiani (director of the Studium Musicale di Ateneo) as, respectively, artistic creator and scientific director.
The aim of the Project is to contribute to enriching the musical offer of the City of Milan according to innovative criteria and methods from a cultural-musicological point of view and of the highest artistic profile, first of all, by establishing a chamber music season at the Aula Magna of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan which will make use of established and prestigious names in international piano concertism.
