Antonio Di Cristofano

The artist

Antonio Di Cristofano

Antonio Di Cristofano completed bis piano studies in 1986 at the Conservatory "L.Cherubini" in Florence, under the supervision of M0 Bacchelli. He has perlected with M0 Damerini. He played as a soloist with the Chamber Orchestra of Florence, Symphony Orchestra of Lecce, Magna Grecia Orchestra, SicilySymphony Orchestra,SolistiAquilani, MilanoClassica Orchestra,Sinfonica Abruzzese, SanremoOrchestra, FVG Mittleurope Orchestra, Radio Orchestra of Bucarest, Orquesta Sinfonica de l'Estado de Mexico, RadiotelevisionAlbania Orchestra, Presidential Ankara Symphony Orchestra, Praga Radio Symphony Orchestra, North Czech Philarmon ic, Czech Philarmonic Orchestra, Izmir Symphony Orchestra, lasi State Philarmonic, Wiener Mozart Orchestra, Toronto Sinfonia, Philarmonique de Montreal, Jerusalem Symphony, Slovak Filharmonie, Kaerntner Sinfonieorchester, Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra, Istanbul Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra do Norie, Sinfonica di Sao Paulo, Thuringen Orchestra, Moravian Philharmonic, Euro Sinfonietta Wien and recently with LaScala Milan Orchestra, withconductors like G. Taverna, M. Bosch, M. Alsop , C. Schulz, M. Zanini, C. Olivieri-Mu nroe , L. Svarovsky, A. Chernushenko , M. Sieghart, T. Kuchar and many others. He played, in Italy, for the most important Festival: the "Verdi Theatre" in Florence, t be "Festival dei DueMondi" inSpoleto, "Asolo Musica", the Theatre ofAlessandria, the "BibbienaTheatre" in Mantova , the "Puccini Hall" at the Conservatory "G.Verdi" in Milan, "Politeama Theatre" in Palermo, "Auditorium San Barnaba" in Brescia, Festival Duni in Matera, etc.,in Romania Enescu Festival in Bucarest,E.spana (Festival de Viga,Toledo Festival, Jeunesses Musicales de Sevilla), Mexico (BellesArtes Palacio,Revueltas Auditorium), USA (Moores Opera House of Houston, Gates Concert Hall in Denver, Washington International Piano Festival, ecc), Turkey (Istanbul, Izmir and Adana), Croatia (Dubrovnik - Rector Palace), Czech Republic (Praga - Smetana Hall and Dvorak Hall), Russia (Ciaikovsky Conservatoire), South Korea (Seoul - Leeum Auditorium), France (Nancyphonies Festival), Austria (Konzerthaus - Klagenfurt) , Germany (Gasteig - Munich), Chopin Society Warsaw, Canada (Toronto - Glenn Gould Studio), Grieg Festival in Norway, YamahaConcert Hall in Tokyo, Shanghay and Shenzen pianofestival an Hong Kong City Hall (China), Swiss , Albania , lsrael, England, Portugal, Bulgary, Ukraine, Belgium, Brasi!, Serbia, Argentina, Sweden, South Africa, Estonia, Finland, Egypt, ecc. He recorded cds with Velut Luna and Millenium label and recently a newone titled Encores. In 2006 and 2007 be mades the debut in Carnegie Hall - New York and in Konzerthaus and Golden Hall MusikVerein in Wien where he will perform again in December 2019. He is often invited as a judge in international Piano Competition (Compositores de Espana - Madrid, Varallo, Cantù, Osijek, Gante - Pordenone, Parigi, Viardo - Belmont, Rachmaninov - Moscow, Iturbi - Valencia , Parnassos - Monterrey, Astana Merei International Competition -Astana, Baltic piano Competition -Gdansk , Bajic Memoria} -Navi Sad, Hong Kong International Young Pianist Competition, Nordic Piano Competition - Malmoe, Mozart Piano Competition -Aachen, Louisiana Piano Competition, Cleveland Piano Competition, Seregno - Pozzoli Piano Competition, ecc) and to teach in Ciaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, Valencia Conservatory, in the SummerAcademy in Dubrovnik, in Shanghay, Xiamen and NingboConservatory in China, in the SMCAcademy in Seoul, In Valletta International Piano Festival, in Sofia Conservatory, in Thessaloniki Conservatory, in The Orpheus Academy in Wien and in many USA Universi cy. He received three times the Paul Harrys Fellows from Rotary Club . He is Guest Professor at the Xiamen Conservatory in China and in the Summer Academy Orpheus in Wien. In 2018, be received the "Grifone d'Oro Prize" from the Grosseto City.