FRANCESCA CARDONE
Versatile, creative, experimental, imaginative, chameleon-like: The artistic work of the Italian pianist Francesca Cardone goes beyond the usual purely musical aspects and extends to the inclusion of other art forms, using “interdisciplinarity” as the core concept for her concert performances. Her personality expresses itself in many ways, as she works both as a solo pianist and as a chamber musician and répétiteur.
The renowned pianist Joaquin Achucarro, under whom she studied piano in the USA for four years at Southern Methodist University (Artist Certificate and Master Piano Diploma), already described her as one of the most promising pianists in the “piano panorama” when she was a young student. During her studies, her high musical sensitivity was recognized and praised by many artists. She received regular piano lessons from Lucia Passaglia at the Conservatory Luigi Cherubini in Florence (Diploma with distinction), from Sergio Perticaroli and Felix Ayo (both at the Accademia Santa Cecilia in Rome: solo piano and chamber music diplomas), from Hans Graf in Vienna, from Sulamita Aronovsky in London; she attended masterclasses with Murray Perahia, Alexander Lonquich, and Paul Badura-Skoda.
She participated in various competitions and was a prize-winner at international competitions “F. Liszt” in Lucca, “Rom ’89,” “Skrjabin,” “Sulmona,” and in Stresa with clarinetist C. Failli, and “Kingsville” (USA) with clarinetist I. Shterenberg. Subsequent performances as a soloist and with chamber ensembles followed in the USA, Japan, and various European countries (Italy, Austria, Germany, Poland, Denmark, Spain, Czech Republic, England).
As the daughter of a language teacher, Francesca has actively promoted Italian art in recent years. She has expressed her vision of art interdisciplinarity at many cultural institutions across Europe.
Parallel to her concert activity, she also holds teaching and organizational roles with the Italian cultural society Società Dante Alighieri in Salzburg, contributing to the planning and conception of various artistic events with Italian connections. In addition, she regularly teaches piano at the Landesmusikschule Oberösterreich. Her interest in art in its diverse forms and in promoting Italian culture was brought together in a CD project in collaboration with the Società Dante Alighieri: a Liszt disc whose literary content and music are dedicated to Italy. This was followed by another Brahms-oriented CD with poems by German poets. One of her CD productions, “Mozart und Zeitgenossen,” follows the same concept and presents Austrian and Italian music and poetry from Mozart’s time, outlining the cultural relations between the two countries. Isabel Karajan and Peter Simonischek are the charismatic interpreters of the literary contents.
Her latest recording, “Tableaux mélodiques op. 667,” released by the Spanish label IMM, is devoted entirely to the Austrian composer Carl Czerny, as a musical homage to the country that she has hosted for more than 20 years.
Versatile, creative, experimental, imaginative, chameleon-like: The artistic work of the Italian pianist Francesca Cardone goes beyond the usual purely musical aspects and extends to the inclusion of other art forms, using “interdisciplinarity” as the core concept for her concert performances. Her personality expresses itself in many ways, as she works both as a solo pianist and as a chamber musician and répétiteur.
The renowned pianist Joaquin Achucarro, under whom she studied piano in the USA for four years at Southern Methodist University (Artist Certificate and Master Piano Diploma), already described her as one of the most promising pianists in the “piano panorama” when she was a young student. During her studies, her high musical sensitivity was recognized and praised by many artists. She received regular piano lessons from Lucia Passaglia at the Conservatory Luigi Cherubini in Florence (Diploma with distinction), from Sergio Perticaroli and Felix Ayo (both at the Accademia Santa Cecilia in Rome: solo piano and chamber music diplomas), from Hans Graf in Vienna, from Sulamita Aronovsky in London; she attended masterclasses with Murray Perahia, Alexander Lonquich, and Paul Badura-Skoda.
She participated in various competitions and was a prize-winner at international competitions “F. Liszt” in Lucca, “Rom ’89,” “Skrjabin,” “Sulmona,” and in Stresa with clarinetist C. Failli, and “Kingsville” (USA) with clarinetist I. Shterenberg. Subsequent performances as a soloist and with chamber ensembles followed in the USA, Japan, and various European countries (Italy, Austria, Germany, Poland, Denmark, Spain, Czech Republic, England).
As the daughter of a language teacher, Francesca has actively promoted Italian art in recent years. She has expressed her vision of art interdisciplinarity at many cultural institutions across Europe.
Parallel to her concert activity, she also holds teaching and organizational roles with the Italian cultural society Società Dante Alighieri in Salzburg, contributing to the planning and conception of various artistic events with Italian connections. In addition, she regularly teaches piano at the Landesmusikschule Oberösterreich. Her interest in art in its diverse forms and in promoting Italian culture was brought together in a CD project in collaboration with the Società Dante Alighieri: a Liszt disc whose literary content and music are dedicated to Italy. This was followed by another Brahms-oriented CD with poems by German poets. One of her CD productions, “Mozart und Zeitgenossen,” follows the same concept and presents Austrian and Italian music and poetry from Mozart’s time, outlining the cultural relations between the two countries. Isabel Karajan and Peter Simonischek are the charismatic interpreters of the literary contents.
Her latest recording, “Tableaux mélodiques op. 667,” released by the Spanish label IMM, is devoted entirely to the Austrian composer Carl Czerny, as a musical homage to the country that she has hosted for more than 20 years.