Sergio Fiorentino
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Sergio Fiorentino was a 20th-century Italian classical pianist whose on-and-off performing career has spanned five decades. Fiorentino was born in Naples on December 22, 1927 and died there August 22, 1998.
[edit] Music Career
Fiorentino studied at the Conservatorio San Pietro a Majella in Naples under Luigi Finizio and Paolo Denza, earned his diploma in 1946 and attended a master class of Carlo Zecchi in Salzburg in 1948.
He debuted at New York's Carnegie Hall in 1953. The next year, however, he suffered a near-fatal plane accident, forcing him to cut back on concertizing. This led to him becoming a teacher at the Naples conservatory where he had once been a student.
In the late 1950's, he made a new start in concertizing, but in England. Most of his recordings were made during those years. But again, he withdrew from the concert stage, limiting his rare public appearances to his native country, and again started to regularly teach master classes.
After leaving the Naples conservatory in 1993, he again began to play more in public and performed all over the world, in Germany, France, Taiwan, and the USA. Negotiated and contracted engagements in Russia and Canada could not be fulfilled due to his sudden death in his home in Naples on August 22nd, 1998.
[edit] Fraud with Concert Artists label
Beginning in 1994 through after his death in 1998, a large number of recordings by Fiorentino were released. Many of these recordings were issued by the label Concert Artists. In February 2007, Concert Artists admitted to falsely attributing music recorded under the name of the late Joyce Hatto.[1] However, no evidence has been reported that a similar hoax was perpetrated with regard to the recordings ascribed to Sergio Fiorentino.
[edit] External links
- Short biography on the Bach-Cantatas.com website
- Biography on site of Concert Artist/Fidelio Recordings
- Discography, Reviews, Pictures at The Sergio Fiorentino Pages
