 Lydia Artymiw
The recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Prize,
Philadelphia-born Lydia Artymiw has performed with over one hundred orchestras world-wide
including the Auckland Symphony, BBC Northern Symphony, Berlin RIAS Orchestra, Boston
Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic,
Los Angeles Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, National Symphony,
New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, San Francisco
Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Seoul Philharmonic, Singapore Symphony, St. Louis Symphony,
and the St. Luke’s, McGill, and St. Paul Chamber Orchestras, collaborating with such
renowned conductors as André Previn, Seiji Ozawa, Osmo Vänskä, Simon Rattle, Stanislaw
Skrowaczewksi, Norman del Mar, Alexander Brott, and David Zinman.
She has performed solo recitals in most major American cities, important European
music centers, and throughout the Far East. Critics have acclaimed her seven recordings
for Chandos, and she has also recorded for Bridge, Centaur, and Naxos. Her debut Chandos
“Variations” CD won Gramophone Magazine’s “Best of the Year” award, and her recording
of the “Complete Mendelssohn Cello/Piano Works” with cellist Marcy Rosen for Bridge
was nominated for a 2018 Grammy. Artymiw has participated in over 50 festivals including
Aspen, Badenweiler, Bantry, Bravo! Vail, Caramoor, Chautauqua, Hollywood Bowl, Marlboro,
Montréal, Mostly Mozart, RPPF, Seattle, and Tucson. Artymiw has collaborated with
renowned artists Yo-Yo Ma, Richard Stoltzman, Arnold Steinhardt, Kim Kashkashian,
Benita Valente, John Aler, Marcy Rosen, and the Alexander, American, Borromeo, Cassatt,
Guarneri, Miami, Orion, Shanghai, and Tokyo Quartets.
A recipient of top prizes in the 1976 Leventritt and the 1978 Leeds International
Competitions, she graduated from Philadelphia’s University of the Arts and studied
with Gary Graffman for twelve years. Artymiw was a juror for the 2006 Esther Honens
in Calgary, 2015 Cliburn Junior International Piano Competition and Festival, the
2019 First China International Competition in Beijing, the 2017 Lang Lang Futian International
Piano Competition in Shenzhen, the 2022 New York International Piano Competition,
the 2023 Charles Wadsworth Competition in Georgia, and will be a juror for the 2024
Montréal International and the 2024 Gina Bachauer International Competition in Utah.
She has also been a juror for 21 piano concerto competitions at Juilliard and has
been a guest piano teacher at Juilliard since 2015.
Artymiw was Distinguished McKnight Professor of Piano at the University of Minnesota
in Minneapolis from 1989-2020 and was awarded Emerita status. She received the 2015
“Excellence in Graduate Teaching” Award and the 2000 Dean’s Medal. Please visit her
website at lydiaartymiw.com
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 Dr. Enrico Elisi
Texas Christian University
Enrico Elisi, a laureate of the Oporto International Competition (Portugal) and the
Premio Venezia (Italy), has earned international recognition for his performances
across four continents.
Praised for his "mastery of elegance, refinement, and fantasy" (La Nueva España) and
"remarkable sensitivity, imagination, and polish" (Baltimore Sun), he has given recitals
throughout Europe at venues such as the Bemberg Museum in Toulouse (France), Centro
del Carmen in Valencia (Spain), Dante Society in Bonn, Wolfsburg Castle, and Kiel
Universität's Bach-Saal (Germany), Cyril and Methodius Foundation in Piestany (Slovakia).
Audiences in his native Italy heard him at historic venues such as La Fenice Theatre
(Venice), Dante's Church, the Hall of the Five Hundred in the Medici-owned Palazzo
Vecchio and Sala del Buonumore (Florence), the Pavarotti-Freni Opera House (Modena),
the Bibiena Theatre and Palazzo Guerreri-Gonzaga (Mantua), the Sala dei Giganti (Padua),
the Sala degli Ostaggi mi(Crema), the Teatro Comunale, the Archaeological Museum,
and the Sala Bossi (Bologna), as well as the Sant'Anna dei Lombardi Church (Naples).
In Asia, he performed to acclaim in Japan, South Korea (IBK Hall, Seoul), China (Beijing
Steinway Hall), Taiwan, Indonesia, Singapore, and in the Americas, in Peru (Centro
Cultural de España, Lima), Canada (Banff Centre) and at notable venues in the United
States, including the National Gallery of Art, the Italian Embassy in Washington,
DC, the New York Public and Morgan Libraries, Carnegie Hall's Weill Hall, and the
Chopin Society in San Francisco.
Upcoming projects will feature performances of Mozart's Concerto for Two Pianos and
Orchestra with John Owings and the TCU Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven's Concerto No.
3 with the Pennsylvania Chamber Orchestra, a recital program of Beethoven Piano Sonatas
(USA), and the Amy Beach Piano Quintet (Switzerland).
Aiming for a diverse musical repertoire, he recently co-founded the Elisi Pan Piano
Duo with London-based RCM faculty Mengyang Pan. The duo is committed to providing
an eclectic musical experience, featuring a dynamic alternation between repertoire
for two pianos, those for four hands, and solo compositions. In 2024, the duo will
present recitals across Italy, England, Taiwan, Indonesia, the USA, and China, offering
a rich mosaic of musical styles.
Elisi has collaborated with several orchestras in the USA, Italy, Portugal, and Indonesia
and has been featured in TV broadcasts (Rádio e Televisão de Portugal and WPSU in
the USA) and on radio stations in Europe and the USA.
He performed at the University of Toronto New Music Festival and premiered solo and
chamber compositions by Paul Chihara, whose chamber work, Two Images, is featured
on Albany Records. The anticipated release of Angelus and Three Songs by Peruvian
composer J. V. Grossmann are notable additions to Elisi's diverse new music repertoire.
A frequent guest at music festivals worldwide, Elisi performed and conducted masterclasses
at Cincinnati's "Art of the Piano," Interlochen Center for the Arts, Texas State,
Artciál, RPPF, and the Chautauqua Institution in the USA; VIPA Valencia in Spain;
Todi Music Masters, Conero and Amalfi Coast Festivals in Italy; Borromeo in Switzerland;
The Thinking Pianist in England; and the Ameri-China Foundation and Sichuan International
Piano Festival in China. In 2024, he will be on the faculty at the Vancouver Piano
Sessions.
Dr. Elisi has conducted workshops for the Pinerolo Accademia di Musica, Royal College
of Music, and Royal Northern College and was a Yellowbarn Festival Artist-in-Residence.
He has taught masterclasses at prestigious institutions across the United States,
Canada, Peru, Denmark, Italy, England, Turkey, Taiwan, China, Singapore, Indonesia,
Japan, and Korea.
Dr. Elisi holds the Harold D. and Imogene Herndon Endowed Professorship of Music in
Piano at Texas Christian University. Throughout his distinguished teaching career,
he has taught at the University of Toronto (which has recognized him with the Teaching
Award), the Eastman School, Penn State University, and UNLV. He was also a visiting
professor at Hanyang University and a Leading Scholar at Ewha Womans University (Korea).
His students have won prizes and pursued successful careers; many hold teaching posts.
Elisi's mentors include Leon Fleisher, Lazar Berman, Alexander Lonquich, Franco Scala,
Boris Petrushansky, and Giuseppe Fricelli. His musical education flourished at the
Conservatories of Bologna and Florence, the International Piano Academy of Imola,
the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, and the Taos and Ravinia Festivals,
where he delved into chamber music with Robert McDonald, Menahem Pressler, Gilbert
Kalish, and Claude Frank.
He became a citizen of the United States of America in 2012 and is a Steinway Artist.
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 Antonio Pompa-Baldi
Cleveland Institute of Music
Born and raised in Foggia, Italy, Antonio Pompa-Baldi won the Cleveland International
Piano Competition in 1999 and embarked on a multifaceted career that continues to
extend across five continents. A top prize winner at the 1998 Marguerite Long-Jacques
Thibaud Competition of Paris, France, Antonio PompaBaldi also won a silver medal at
the 2001 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. With a concerto repertoire including
more than 60 works, Mr. Pompa-Baldi recently performed cycles of all the Rachmaninoff
Piano Concertos, the five Beethoven Piano Concertos, and both Brahms Concertos with
various orchestras. He has played recitals in most major venues over the world. In
2019, he was a returning guest at the third edition of the Lang Lang International
Piano Festival in Shenzhen, China, continued his honorary guest professorship at the
Beijing China Conservatory, and was named honorary professor at the Shenyang Conservatory
of Music.
Pompa-Baldi studied with two important exponents of the great Neapolitan School: Annamaria
Pennella, and Aldo Ciccolini. He also received guidance in masterclass settings from
Paul Badura Skoda and Jörg Demus, among others.
Mr. Pompa-Baldi appears at the world’s major concert venues including New York’s Carnegie
Hall, Cleveland’s Severance Hall, Milan’s Sala Verdi, Boston’s Symphony Hall, Shanghai’s
Grand Theatre, and Paris’ Salle Pleyel, to name a few. He has collaborated with leading
conductors including Hans Graf, Krzysztof Urbánski, James Conlon, Miguel Harth-Bedoya,
Theodore Kuchar, Benjamin Zander, Louis Lane, and Keith Lockhart. He has performed
with ensembles and colleagues such as Takacs String Quartet, trumpeter Alison Balsom,
cellist Sharon Robinson, violinists Ivan Zenaty and Ilya Kaler, and principals of
the Cleveland Orchestra, Dallas Symphony, New York Philharmonic, and Juilliard Quartet,
among others.
With a concerto repertoire including more than 60 works, Mr. Pompa-Baldi recently
performed cycles of all the Rachmaninoff Piano Concertos, the five Beethoven Piano
Concertos, and both Brahms Concertos with various orchestras. He has played recitals
in most major venues over the world. In 2019, he was a returning guest at the third
edition of the Lang Lang International Piano Festival in Shenzhen, China, continued
his honorary guest professorship at the Beijing China Conservatory, and was named
honorary professor at the Shenyang Conservatory of Music.
Among the stops on his tours, he performed in Vienna (Austria), London (UK), Paris
(France), New York (USA), Auckland (New Zealand), Jerusalem (Israel), Kiev (Ukraine),
Cape Town (South Africa), and throughout China (Beijing, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Guangzhou),
as well as in Poland, Germany, Mexico, Canada, Spain, and many other places around
the globe.
Mr. Pompa-Baldi has recorded well over 30 CDs to date, for various labels including
Centaur Records, Harmonia Mundi, Steinway, TwoPianists, Azica, and Brilliant Classics.
Among them, the complete piano and chamber music works of Grieg, the Josef Rheinberger
Piano Sonatas, the complete Hummel Piano Sonatas, and CDs dedicated to Brahms, Schumann,
Liszt, Respighi, and Rachmaninoff.
For the Steinway label, Pompa-Baldi recorded songs by Francis Poulenc and Edith Piaf,
arranged for solo piano, as well as a CD titled “Napoli”, which features new piano
versions of famous Neapolitan songs, elaborated by Roberto Piana. His latest releases
feature Concertos for Violin, Piano and Orchestra by Mendelssohn and Hummel for Brilliant
Classics, and his solo piano transcription of Respighi’s B minor violin sonata for
the Steinway label.
Antonio Pompa-Baldi is a Steinway Artist since 2003. He is also a Steinway Recording
Artist, as well as one of the most prominently featured artists in the Spirio recording
catalogue. He is often invited to judge international piano competitions such as the
Cleveland, Hilton Head, E-Competition (Minneapolis), BNDES Rio de Janeiro, Chopin
USA (Miami) and Edward Grieg (Bergen), among many others. He serves as president of
the jury and artistic advisor for the San Jose International Piano Competition since
2005.
Pompa-Baldi is on the Piano Faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he
also serves as Head of the Piano Department. His students have been prizewinners in
important competitions such as Marguerite Long, Hilton Head, Isang Yun, and Gina Bachauer.
He is regularly invited to teach masterclasses in countless Universities, Music Schools,
and Festivals in the US and all over the world.
In 2015, Pompa-Baldi founded the Todi International Music Masters festival, of which
he is also Artistic Director and Faculty Member. This summer festival takes place
every August in the beautiful Italian town of Todi. It features 15 concerts in 15
days, with internationally renown faculty members, and students from all over the
world.
Antonio Pompa-Baldi serves as Vice Director for Education for the Lang Lang Art World
organization in Hangzhou, China, and is on the advisory board of the Lang Lang International
Music Foundation of New York.
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Alexandre Dossin
Eleonora Karpukhova
