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Thomas Pandolfi Artist's Website >> Thomas Pandolfi is steadily building a reputation as one of America's finest pianists. With a vast and diverse repertoire at his fingertips, he has been consistently praised not only for his compelling Mozart, passionate Liszt, and dazzling Gershwin interpretations, but also for his innovative programming ideas. The young pianist's career has already included performances with such European orchestras as The George Enescu Philharmonic (under Maestro Dimitru Goia), and The Moravian Philharmonic (under Maestro Peter Schmelzer), as well as the American symphony orchestras of Mississippi, Cedar Rapids, Asheville, Princeton, and San Angelo, to name but a few. He has collaborated with such conductors as Andreas Delfs, Christian Tiemeyer, Ron Spigelman, William Kushner, Nicholas Palmer and Robert Hart Baker. Following a performance of Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Asheville Symphony, The Asheville Citizen-Times remarked, "Pandolfi is a standout among today's young pianists, demonstrating a great technician's grace, finesse and polish...his virtuosity and strength might have had some believing that Liszt himself had taken over the keyboard." Equally popular as a recitalist, Pandolfi has appeared in concert halls nationwide. After a recent recital, The Washington Post described him as "an artist who is master of both the grand gesture and the sensual line. Pandolfi possesses first-rate technical skills, an unerring command of phrasing, a quicksilver touch and cunning legerdemain when it comes to pedaling...etched with calm and crystal clarity...outstanding." New York Concert Review has characterized Pandolfi's interpretations as containing "high level pianism and tasteful, diversified musical ideas...crystalline texture and deft coloration...charm and bracing elan." During the 2006-07 season, Mr. Pandolfi appears with The York Symphony on Gala Opening Night in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4; a special New Year's Eve concert with The New Philharmonic under Maestro Kirk Muspratt featuring Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue; Pandolfi will close both The Altoona Symphony's season with the Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1, and The Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic's season with Duke Ellington's New World A' Comin for piano and orchestra. He will also make his debut with The National Philharmonic of the Republic of Moldova in November under Maestro Mihail Agafita, and will appear as recitalist in Florida, Connecticut, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Highlights of the '07/'08 Season will include Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini with the Virginia Beach Symphony in the opening of their new Performing Arts Center, and MacDowell's D Minor Concerto with The George Enescu Philharmonic. A graduate of The Juilliard School, Mr. Pandolfi earned both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees as a scholarship student. O1C Performances: Thomas Pandolfi |
