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Internationally acclaimed as one of the major virtuoso interpreters of Liszt,
three-time winner of the Grand Prix du Disque awarded by the prestigious
Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest (1976, 1977 and 1998), the latter for
his recording “Franz Liszt-The Great Transcriptions, I-II” (Philips), Michele Campanella
has interpreted in over 45 years of career most of the major piano
repertoire. He has been awarded the “Liszt high merit” medal by the
Hungarian government in 1986 and the American Liszt Society Medal in
2002. Trained at the Vincenzo Vitale School in Naples, Michele
Campanella is a very versatile artist. This has enabled him to face
composers like Clementi, Weber, Poulenc, Busoni (1980 “Italian
Discographic Critic Award” for his Fonit Cetra recordings), Rossini,
Brahms, Ravel and Liszt. He has recently recorded an anthology of Liszt
paraphrases, the 12 Transcendental Studies and a selection of works from
the late period played on Liszt’s own original Bechstein piano. This is
the first chapter of an important 12 CD series dedicated to Liszt that
will be released under the “Brillant” label.His discography
includes recordings for Emi (Ravel), Philips (Liszt, Saint-Saëns), Foné
(Chopin), PYE (Liszt, Tchaikovsky), Fonit Cetra (Busoni), Nuova Era
(Tchaikovsky, Liszt, Mussorgsky, Balakirev), Musikstrasse (Rossini),
P&P (Brahms, Liszt, Scarlatti) and Niccolò (Schumann). In 2005, the
Rossini Opera Festival published a recording of the Petite Messe
Solennelle in Pesaro, conducted by Michele Campanella.Mr.
Campanella has performed with the principal European and American
orchestras (Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, San Francisco
Symphony) and collaborated with conductors such as Claudio Abbado,
Gianluigi Gelmetti, Eliahu Inbal, Charles Mackerras, Zubin Mehta,
Riccardo Muti, Georges Prêtre, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Wolfgang Sawallisch,
Thomas Schippers, Hubert Soudant, Pinchas Steinberg and Christian
Thielemann. He is frequently invited to Australia, Russia, the United
Kingdom, Argentina, China, as well as being a regular guest at
international festivals such as Lucerne, Vienna, Berlin, Prague and
Pesaro (Rossini Opera Festival). Recent performance highlights include
all Beethoven and Mozart concertos as well as the complete piano works
by Brahms.
Together with Salvatore Accardo and Rocco Filippini he established an
ideal musical partnership during the 1990’s for the chamber music
repertoire. In the last few years, Campanella’s career as
conductor/soloist has been further developed performing with several
prestigious Italian orchestras, such as the Accademia Nazionale di Santa
Cecilia Orchestra in Rome, the ORT-Orchestra della Toscana, the
Orchestra da Camera di Padova e del Veneto, I Filarmonici di Verona, the
Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento. His repertoire includes works by
Ravel, Fauré, Poulenc, Franck, Saint-Saëns, Schumann, Weber, Liszt,
alongside Mozart and Beethoven.
A dedicated and passionate teacher, Campanella was head of the piano
department at the Accademia Chigiana (Siena) from 1986 to 2010, as well
as conducting advanced training courses for eight years in Ravello. He
is the director of the Vincenzo Vitale Center for Piano Studies at the
University Suor Orsola Benincasa of Naples. He has been celebrated by
the prestigious “Premio Napoli” and “Guido e Roberto Cortese”
foundations. He is also a member of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia,
Accademia Filarmonica Romana and Accademia Cherubini di Firenze. For
nine years he has been artistic director of three different concert
seasons sponsored by the Naples, Benevento and Catanzaro Universities.
He has recently been nominated artistic director of the “Maggio della
Musica” festival in Naples. Since 2008 he has been President of the
“Società Liszt”, the Italian chapter of the American Liszt Society.In
2011, as the world celebrated the bicentenary of Franz Liszt’s birth,
Campanella dedicated his entire musical activity, both as pianist and
conductor, to the Hungarian composer he studied and loved from the age
of fourteen, engaging himself in a long series of solo concerts in Italy
and abroad: Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Rome), Unione
Musicale (Turin), Cini Foundation (Venice) for the Wagner Society, Verdi
Conservatoire (Milan), San Carlo Theatre (Naples), Accademia Musicale
Chigiana (Siena), L’Aquila, Piacenza, Cremona, Udine and Parma. As a
part of the prestigious Ravenna Festival, acting as conductor/soloist
together with the Luigi Cherubini Orchestra, Campanella performed in one
single evening the complete Liszt piano and orchestra compositions.His
most important international engagements in 2011 included concerts in
Buenos Aires, Tokyo (Tokyo Suntory Hall) and Chicago, where Campanella
gave three performances of the Liszt Concerto No.1 for piano and
orchestra together with Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
as part of the Liszt bicentenary celebrations. In collaboration
with the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and the Accademia
Musicale Chigiana, Campanella has conceived and directed a series of
Liszt music marathons at the Parco della Musica in Rome, where the
complete Liszt piano works were performed. A project like this
(including the participation of seventy five Italian pianists) generated
great interest since nothing of the kind had ever before been
attempted.
In addition to his work as a musician, Campanella is also a writer.
In 2011 his book “Il mio Liszt. Considerazioni di un interprete” was
published by Bompiani. The book is the literary homage that Campanella
has always wanted to dedicate to his beloved composer. In 2012 Michele
Campanella received the prestigious prizes Premio Scanno and Premio
Grotta di Tiberio for musical performance.
PROGRAMME:Chopin vs Liszt: Ballades and WaltzesF.Chopin: Ballade n.3 in A-flat op.47 Tre Valzer brillanti op.34 – in A-flat major – in A minor – in F major Ballade n.1 in G minor op.23(intermission)F.Liszt: Quatrième Mephisto – Valse Valse – Impromptu Ballade in B minor Quatrième Valse Oubliée Valse de Faust de Gounod