Enrico Pompili
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Enrico Pompili is an Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 pianist.

A native of Bolzano, he won several Italian national competitions before being prized at the Dublin International Piano Competition. In 1994 he was second to Viktor Lyadov
Viktor Lyadov
Viktor Lyadov is a Russian pianist.Still a student at the Moscow Conservatory, he won prizes at Zwickau's Robert Schumann and Santander's Paloma O'Shea competitions. In 1994 he won the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition. A 6th prize at the 1995 Queen Elisabeth closes his competition...

 at the Hamamatsu Competition, and next year he was awarded a 2nd prize at the XIII Paloma O'Shea Competition
Paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition
The Paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition is a piano competition taking place in Santander, Spain every three years, organized by the Albéniz Foundation...

 - 1st prize void. This success launched an international career starting from 1996.

He has recorded Niccolò Castiglioni (Col Legno) and Alberto Ginastera
Alberto Ginastera
Alberto Evaristo Ginastera was an Argentine composer of classical music. He is considered one of the most important Latin American classical composers.- Biography :...

's complete piano works (Phoenix Classics). He has released a collection of solo and two piano works by American composer Michael Glenn Williams
Michael Glenn Williams
Michael Glenn Williams is an American composer, pianist and technologist.-Biography:Williams' earliest years were spent in New York, beginning trumpet studies and composing at 8 years old. At 12 he was programming DEC PDP 8 minicomputers...

 on the Stradivarius label.

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