Van Cliburn Prizewinner Cabassi
Will Perform at Chandler April 1

Pianist Davide Cabassi, the 2005 top prizewinner of the 12th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, will perform at Chandler Music Hall in Randolph Sunday, April 1 at 7 p.m. Call (802)728-6464 for tickets.

Pianist Davide Cabassi, the 2005 top prizewinner of the 12^th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, will perform at Chandler Music Hall in Randolph Sunday, April 1 at 7 p.m.

On the program will be J.S. Bach’s Capriccio in B-flat major, BWV 992; Beethoven’s Appassionata Sonata in f minor, Opus 57; Debussy’s "Estampes," two dances from Manuel De Falla’s El Amor Brujo Suite, and La Valse by Ravel.

Cabassi made his orchestral debut at age 13 with the Rai Symphony Orchestra in Milano. After graduating from Milan’s Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory, he spent several years as one of the few select students at the International Piano Foundation in Cadenabbia, Italy, where he studied with Karl Ulrich Schnabel, Leon Fleischer, Rosalyn Turkec, and Charles Rosen among others. Next season, he will be there as its youngest teacher ever.

Cabassi has played as soloist with the Munich Philharmonic, Neue Philharmonie Westfalen, Russian Chamber Philharmonic, Fort Worth Symphony, Big Milano, and many others, collaborating with such conductors as Gustav Kuhn, James Conlan, Asher Fisch, and Vladimir Delman.

In recital he has been engaged by most of the prominent musical associations of his native country and he has played concerts all over Europe, the U.S., China and Japan, highlighted by appearances in Weill Concert Hall and Carnegie Hall in New York, Rachmaninoff Hall in Moscow, Salzburg’s Mozarteum, and the Gasteig in Munich.

Cabassi has now embarked on a three-year tour of concert engagements throughout the United States as a prizewinner of the Van Cliburn competition. During the 2006-07 season, he will have played recitals in Oregon, Texas, Florida, California, Vermont, New Mexico, Indiana, Connecticut, Wyoming, and West Virginia. International engagements will take him to Austria, France, Germany, Malta, and then back home to Italy.

Having recorded extensively for television and radio broadcasts in Italy, in January 2006, Cabassi made his recording debut, "Dancing with the Orchestra," with music by Stravinsky, Bartok, De Fall, and Ravel, which was released by Sony-BMG. He is also one of the four young artists prominently featured in the film documentary about the 12^th Van Cliburn Competition, "In the Heart of Music," which began airing on PBS stations across the United States in October 2005.

Tickets for his concert may be reserved through the Chandler box office at 728-6464 or online at tickets@chandler-arts.org.

Cabassi will also perform a recital at a private reception in Randolph Center Saturday evening, March 31 at 7 p.m. There are still a few spaces available for this event. For information and tickets, call the box office.

This performance is presented by Chandler Center for the Arts and has been made possible in part by the Friends of the Classics at Chandler. It is sponsored by Frederick Johnson Pianos, Inc. and Cabassi’s tour is sponsored by the Van Cliburn Foundation. Chandler Music Hall is wheelchair accessible.

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