Leonardo Pierdomenico (Italy) ← Back to list
Winner of the "Raymond E. Buck" Jury Discretionary Award at the 2017 Van Cliburn international piano competition, Leonardo Pierdomenico is described by the critics as "a pianist where highly developed technique and cultivated sound are combined with imagination and thoroughgoing, scrupulous musicality” (Patrick Rucker, Gramophone UK).
He is also the first prize winner, at just 18 years old, of the 28th edition of the “Premio Venezia” piano competition, held in Teatro La Fenice: hence the collaboration with orchestras such as the Fort Worth Symphony, Orchestre Royal De Chambre de Wallonie, Teatro La Fenice Symphony Orchestra, LaVerdi Orchestra in Milan, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Wuhan Philharmonic Orchestra, North Czech Philharmonic and with conductor like Yves Abel, Diego Matheuz, Nicholas McGegan, James P. Liu and Jan Kucera, among the others.
Leonardo is regularly invited in the most important Italian and international concert halls and festivals, including: Sala Verdi of the Conservatory in Milan, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Salle Moliére in Lyon, Maison de la radio in Paris, Chopin Festivals in Paris and in Nohant, Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, Filharmonia Narodowa in Warsaw, Flagey in Brussels, Liszt Festival in Utrecht, Bass Hall in Fort Worth (TX), Merkin concert hall in New York, Qin'tai concert hall in Wuhan, Bologna Festival, Fazioli concert hall.
Among the highlights of the most recent concert seasons there is the debut in the chamber music season 2022/2023 of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, with the italian premiere of Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms in Shostakovic's arrangement for piano duo and choir, and the debut at Teatro alla Scala in Milan in 2024.
He has already released four albums with the label Piano Classics: his debut album, dedicated to works by Franz Liszt, earned him an Editor's Choice from Gramophone UK magazine and a nomination for recording of the year at the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik (the prize of the union of German music critics).
Born in Abruzzo, Italy, Leonardo studied at the Conservatory in Pescara and in 2017 concluded the piano master's degree with honors at the Accademia di S. Cecilia in Rome in the class of M° Benedetto Lupo. In 2016 he won a scholarship to attend the Music Academy of the West in California, collaborating with Maestri Jeremy Denk, Jean - Yves Thibaudet, Jerome Lowenthal, Julian Martin and Leon Fleisher. He continued his studies at the Foggia Conservatory, under the guidance of Alessandro Deljavan, and is currently a student of William Grant Nabore’ the Lake Como International Piano Academy. A fervent chamber musician, Leonardo collaborates regularly in duo with the cellist Erica Piccotti.
He is often a guest of the Italian national radio RaiRadio3 and his recordings and live performances have been broadcast also by Medici.tv, RTBF (Belgium) and Radio France.
Leonardo is currently a piano professor at the Foggia Conservatory of music and the Avos Academy in Rome.