Vincenzo Maltempo

Vincenzo Maltempo is an Italian pianist. He was born in Benevento, Italy, on July 2, 1985.

He began his musical studies with Salvatore Orlando, disciple of the pianist Sergio Fiorentino. From 2005 to 2009 he attended the courses held by Riccardo Risaliti at the International Piano Academy "Incontri col Maestro" in Imola.

In 2006 he won the XXIII Competition "Premio Venezia",^[1] in Teatro "La Fenice" (Venice, Italy), and starting an successfully international career (playing in the Theater "La Fenice" in Venice, "Teatro Lirico" in Cagliari, the "Liszt Festival" in Austria, in concert halls in Spain, Germany, The Netherlands, Great Britain, in Japan etc.).

His first recording was released in 2008 by Gramola and dedicated to Liszt.^[2] Afterwards, from 2011, he began a series of recordings with Piano Classics^[3] dedicated to Ch. V. Alkan, composer of which he is considered nowadays one of the most important and devoted advocate ("With these passionate recordings Maltempo confirms his place in the restricted circle of Alkan’s best performers". Bertrand Boissard, Diapason, Sept. 2013). His CDs have gained great approval by the international critics, obtaining 5 stars critical review on such papers like The Guardian^[4][5] and Diapason.^[6] Furthermore, he his one of the few pianists who recorded the complete set of Alkan's Etudes Op. 39 and one of the three pianists who played so far the complete set of these Etudes in one concert (November 2, 2014 in Yokohama, Minato Mirai Hall, Japan^[7]). His Alkan recordings for Piano Classics include also other important works such as the Grande Sonate Op. 33, the Sonatine Op. 61 and the Trois Morceaux dans le genre pathétique Op. 15.

His repertoire goes from the baroque music to the modern music, with a particular interest in the romantic music and in the less performed piano repertoire (Ch. V. Alkan, L. Godowsky, E. M. Delaborde, H. Ravina, P. J. Zimmermann, C. Chaminade, etc.). He also published for Ries&Erler piano transcriptions of the Second Suite from the Ballet "Daphnis et Chloé" by M. Ravel and the piano Simphony by Hans Rott, the first piano solo concert transcription of that work.

He is one of the founder and a piano teacher of the "Imola Piano Academy - Talent development Eindhoven",^[8] a piano Academy in The Netherlans founded by the pianist Andrè Gallo under the advocacy of the International Piano Academy "Incontri col Maestro" in Imola.

Discography

• F. Liszt: Klavierwerke (Gramola 98861)
• Ch. V. Alkan: Grande Sonate and Piano Solo Symphony (Piano Classics PCL0038)
• Ch. V. Alkan: Le festin d'Esope, Sonatine, Ouverture and Trois Morceaux Op. 15 (Piano Classics PCL0056)
• Ch. V. Alkan: Piano Solo Concerto and Etudes Op. 39 n. 1, 2, 3 (Piano Classics PCL0061)

• Vincenzo Maltempo also recording the first execution of the "Le regret" Valse-Etude mélancolique op.332 by Charles Meyer; this piece was usually attributed to F. Chopin as "Valse mélancolique Op. posth.", until the italian musical critic Luca Chierici claimed the paternity of this work to Ch. Mayer.^[9]

References

http://www.vincenzomaltempo.com http://ricerca.gelocal.it/mattinopadova/archivio/mattinodipadova/2006/11/27/VT1MC_VT107.html https://www.gramola.at/en/shop/produkte/20926 http://www.piano-classics.com/vincenzo-maltempo/4571679480 http://italyinjapan.com/detail_it.php?id=812 http://www.jk-arts.net/maltempo.html http://www.ipa-eindhoven.com/#!professors/c9dh http://www.diapasoncd.com/advanced_search_result.php?search_in_description=0&keywords=vincenzo+maltempo&manufacturers_id=&osCsid=22c77d1ddd82130032bdf1a4b0e7dd46&x=0&y=0 http://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/may/24/alkan-vincenzo-maltempo-cd-review http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/jul/18/alkan-le-festin-desope-review http://www.thepianofiles.com/2012/12/31/the-valse-melancolique/

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfJ6D9PGOaA
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOCs07p4U-k
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5xPFYemcCc