Spotlight Artist Portraits - Lorenzo Meo
Laureates Gala, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall - performers from many countries sit down in New York for interviews with Steve Robinson, a world renown radio producer and host. Today's spotlight is on pianist, Lorenzo Meo who performed the first and third mov of the Bach Keyboard Concerto in D Minor BWV. 1052, on June 21, 2023. Today’s program is an artist portrait and about a musicians’ journey. Learn musicians’ stories, what brought them to music, what was their own journey to Carnegie Hall.
Lorenzo Meo is an Italian pianist and composer, currently living in Zurich, Switzerland.
He made his debut concerto appearances performing the Rachmaninov Second Piano Concerto and Mozart's Piano Concerto K.491 in 2002. Since then Lorenzo has made several significant appearances, performing with ensembles such as the Milano Classica Orchestra, the Orchestra of Teatro Comunale in Bologna, the Chioggia Symphony Orchestra, the Bologna Conservatory Orchestra and the Zarlino Orchestra, the New York Chamber Players in prestigious Italian venues such as the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, Teatro delle Muse in Ancona, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Teatro Comunale in Modena, Teatro Comunale in Ferrara, Teatro Flavio Vespasiano in Rieti, Auditorium Giovanni Arvedi in Cremona, Teatro della Fortuna in Fano, Auditorium del Carmine in Parma, Fairmount Auditorium in Kiev, Mystetskyi Arsenal in Kiev, Plivka Dovzhenko Center in Kiev, National Philharmonic in Lviv, Liederkranz Hall in New York.
Actively engaged in the performance of contemporary music, Lorenzo Meo regularly premieres works written expressly for and dedicated to him. As a particularly renowned interpreter of Estonian composer Jaan Rääts, he recorded his piano works for the albums "Boundaries" (2005) and "The E.P.M. Project" (2009). As a renowned contemporary music interpreter, he was invited to perform in the closing concert event for the New Music Festival at the International Art Arsenal in Kiev in 2012, playing the piano music of Jaan Rääts and Erkki-Sven Tüür. In 2015 he performed at Lviv National Philarmonic with a program entirely dedicated to new music for piano solo by women composers. In 2016 he performed the Italian premiere of Concert for Piano and Orchestra No.2 Op.70 and No.3 Op.83 by Jaan Rääts followed by the USA premiere in New York City. His discography includes, beside the previously mentioned compositions of Jaan Rääts, recordings of works by Hilding Rosenberg, Erkki-Sven Tüür, Arnold Schoenberg, and Toru Takemitsu, alongside several recordings of works of 21st Century Composers.
https://www.lorenzomeo.com/
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Steve Robinson is an American radio manager, producer and executive producer. He has held senior management positions with numerous American radio stations, including WFMT and the WFMT Radio Network/Chicago, WBUR/Boston, WGBH/Boston, WCRB/Boston, KPFA/Berkeley, WBGO/Newark, Vermont Public Radio and Nebraska Public Radio Network. When you apply for Gala Auditions, you are treated as a complete artist. We showcase your own choice of repertory. We interview you to help the audience connect with you as both an artist and a person, and to give you an opportunity to present yourself as a complete human. We present you in programs like this one! Judges share their insights and recommendations live on-air immediately after your audition, similar to a mini-masterclass. We encourage and help you to network with our community of established artists-members of Judges Panel as well as with managers and organizers of our events, to support developing your career further.
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Soundtrack Credits: Alla Lowery, Igor Zubkovsky, Anna Ouspenskaya, Ante Božić-Kudrić, Sergey Zubkovsky
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