[NEohioPAL] This Sunday at 3:30! Antonio Pompa-Baldi and the Heights Chamber Orchestra

[Marlene Englander]

The Heights Chamber Orchestra opens its 27th season on Sunday, November 1st, with a special benefit concert at 3:30 pm at The First Baptist Church, 3630 Fairmount Blvd., in Shaker Heights. Soloist will be world-renowned pianist and winner of the 1999 Cleveland International Piano Competition, Antonio Pompa-Baldi. A donation (suggested minimum $10 per person) will be requested and the concert will be followed by a reception where concert goers may greet Mr. Pompa-Baldi and members of the orchestra. 
 
The concert will include two concerti - the Ferguson Concerto for Piano and Strings and the Grieg Piano Concerto - and will be conducted by the orchestra's Principal Conductor, Anthony Addison. 
 
Born in Italy, Antonio Pompa-Baldi has won top prizes in other competitions including the Silver medal in the 2001 Van Cliburn competition. A distinguished professor at the Cleveland Institute of Music, his performance, teaching, recording, and jury schedules take him across the globe. He and his wife, Emanuela Friscioni, also a distinguished pianist, currently live in Shaker Heights, with their daughter Eleanor. 
 
More details on Mr. Pompa-Baldi's career and concert schedule can be found on his website, http://www.pompa-baldi.com.  More detailed information about the benefit concert, and other concerts during the Orchestra's 2009-10 season can be found on the Orchestra’s website, http://www.heightschamberorchestra.org or by contacting Susan Blackwell, at susanmblackwell at hotmail.com or at (216) 321-3315.


      
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