Gabriele Baldocci
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Gabriele Baldocci is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
) is an italian
Italian people
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pianist
Pianist
A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...
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Baldocci is known worldwide since he is performing with the legendary argentinean pianist Martha Argerich
Martha Argerich
Martha Argerich is an Argentine pianist.-Early life:Argerich was born in Buenos Aires and started playing the piano at age three...
After he had studied with Ilio Barontini, Franco Scala, William Grant Naboré and Sergio Perticaroli and having received teachings and appreciations by Alicia De Larrocha
Alicia de Larrocha
Alicia de Larrocha y de la Calle was a Spanish pianist from Catalonia. One of the great piano legends of the 20th century, Reuters called her "the greatest Spanish pianist in history", Time "one of the world's most outstanding pianists" and The Guardian "the leading Spanish pianist of her...
, Leon Fleisher
Leon Fleisher
Leon Fleisher is an American pianist and conductor.-Early life and studies:Fleisher was born in San Francisco, where he started studying the piano at age four...
and Dmitri Bashkirov at the International Piano Academy Lake Como
International Piano Academy Lake Como
The International Piano Academy Lake Como is a music school. Seven pianists, chosen annually from a worldwide field of 400 applicants including many international prizewinners, have the opportunity of studying with a faculty whose core membership past and present includes such stellar artists as...
, he began an intense solo career performing in important venues worldwide (Tonhalle in Zurich
Zürich
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, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
, Sala Verdi in Milan
Milan
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). His large repertoire ranges from Bach to contemporary music and it is especially focused on the composers of the romantic period like Fryderyk Chopin (by whom he had recorded the complete Ballades and Impromptus), Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...
and Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....
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Very active as a chamber musician, he had performed with Ivry Gitlis
Ivry Gitlis
Ivry Gitlis is an Israeli violinist and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. He has performed with the world's top orchestras , and many of his recordings are considered classics.-Life:Born in Haifa, Mandate Palestine to Jewish immigrants from Russia,...
, Marco Fornaciari, Mark Drobinsky and other great names of the international music scene.
He had toured extensively in duo with Martha Argerich
Martha Argerich
Martha Argerich is an Argentine pianist.-Early life:Argerich was born in Buenos Aires and started playing the piano at age three...
, who is Baldocci's personal good friend and mentor.
Since 2008 he plays stably with the argentinean pianist Daniel Rivera
Daniel Rivera
Héctor Alejandro Daniel Rivera is an Argentine pianist settled in Italy. He was prized at the 1973 Vincenzo Scaramuzza Competition in Buenos Aires , 1974 Rina Sala Gallo, Monza , 1974 Alessandro Casagrande, Terni , 1976 Concorso Busoni , 1975 International Ettore Pozzoli Piano Competition , 1977...
. They have performed at very important music Festivals around the world.
Since 2010 he is artistic director and Ambassador of the Martha Argerich Presents Project (MAPp), an ambitious project launched by the argentinean pianist to encourage the cooperation between famous artists and young musical talents, in order to create a worldwide circuit of performances and pedagogy.
More recently, Gabriele Baldocci started his career as a conductor collaborating with important orchestras in Europe and America and he cultivates his interest for cinema producing and directing short and feature movies .
Baldocci is Piano Professor at the Potenza
Potenza
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Conservatory of Music .