Enrico Pace (Piano)
Enrico Pace was born in Rimini (Italy). He studied piano under Franco Scala at
both the Gioachino Rossini Conservatorio in Pesaro and later at the Accademia
Pianistica Incontri col Maestro in Imola, also dedicating himself to conducting
and composition. Jacques De Tiège was one of his most valued mentors. Winning
the Utrecht International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in 1989 marked the
beginning of Enrico Pace’s international career. Since then he has
toured extensively, performing in cities such as Amsterdam (Concertgebouw),
Milan (Sala Verdi and Teatro alla Scala), Rome, Berlin, London (Wigmore Hall),
Dublin, Munich, Salzburg, Prague and various cities in South America. He has
performed at numerous festivals including in La Roque d’Anthéron, Verbier,
Lucerne, Rheingau, Schleswig-Holstein and Husum. He has worked with such
outstanding conductors as Roberto Benzi, David Robertson, Andrey Boreyko, Mark
Elder, János Fürst, Eliahu Inbal, Lawrence Foster, Kazimierz Kord, Jiří Kout,
Gianandrea Noseda, Walter Weller, Carlo Rizzi, Jan Latham-Koenig, Vassily
Sinaisky, Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Bruno Weil and Antoni Wit. A
popular soloist, Enrico Pace has performed with many major orchestras such as
the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, the Bamberger
Symphoniker, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Accademia di
Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Dutch Radio Philharmonic,
the Netherlands Philharmonic, the Sydney and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras, the
Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the MDR-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, the Warsaw
Philharmonic Orchestra, the RTE National Symphony Orchestra, the Giuseppe Verdi
Orchestra in Milan and the Filarmonica Toscanini in Parma. Enrico
Pace greatly enjoys chamber music and has played with the Keller Quartet, the
RTE Vanbrugh Quartet and the Quartetto Prometeo and with cellist Daniel
Müller-Schott, clarinettist Sharon Kam and horn player Marie Luise Neunecker. He
regularly participates in chamber music festivals and has visited Delft,
Moritzburg, Risør, Kuhmo, Montreux, Stresa and West Cork.
Highlights of
past and future seasons include engagements with the Netherlands Philharmonic
Orchestra, the Residentie Orchestra, the Hungarian National Philharmonic and the
Rheinische Philharmonie; he has performed the complete Beethoven Sonatas cycle
with Leonidas Kavakos in Athens, Florence, Milan, Amsterdam, Moscow and Tokyo
and at the Salzburg Festival, as well as further duo recitals in the USA. He has
appeared in programmes of Bach Sonatas with Frank Peter Zimmermann in New York,
Frankfurt and Bamberg as well as in solo recitals at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw
and the Herkulessaal in Munich among other venues.
Enrico Pace enjoys
on-going partnerships with violinists Leonidas Kavakos and Frank Peter
Zimmermann. Together with Leonidas Kavakos and cellist Patrick Demenga he
recorded the piano trios of Mendelssohn (Sony Classical). His recording of the
complete Beethoven Sonatas for piano and violin with Leonidas Kavakos was
released by Decca Classics in January 2013. With Zimmermann he recorded Busoni’s
Violin Sonata No 2 and the six Sonatas for Violin and Piano by Johann Sebastian
Bach (BWV 1014-1019) for Sony Classical. In 2011 the Piano Classics label
released his highly praised solo recording of the Annéees de pèlerinage “Suisse”
and Italie of Franz Liszt.
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