Born on the Island of Ischia (Italy), pianist Antonio Acunto studied music in Naples S.Pietro a Majella Conservatory,trained by representative of Conductor Vincenzo Vitale’s Music School.
Acunto’s studies continued in Bologna, where he graduated from Gian Battista Martini’s Music Conservatory.In Bologna the pianist debuted during the “Festival Bologna Sogna”, organized by the Association “Musica Insieme”, playing Rachmaninonov, s Preludes Op. 23.
In summer 1990, Antonio Acunto attended the International Post Graduate Studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg,Austria. There, he was selected for the famous Russian pianist Tatiana Nicolajeva’s Master Class to perfect, through the years, his solo, piano and orchestra repertoire. Antonio Acunto was then selected for Profs. Alfons Kontarsky and Sergej Dorensky’s Master Classes.
In 1992 Acunto attended the Master Course of Prof. Homero Francesch at the Accademy of Lenk and the Conservatory of Zurigo, Switzerland.
In January 1997 he debuted in Berlin, Germany, with a concert at the Sender Freies Berlin,playing a selection of Mozart, Liszt and Rachmaninoff pieces.From this concert German radio SFB has recorded a CD and a radio program:”Debut Junger Meister:Antonio Acunto”.
In May-June of the same year Antonio Acunto was on tour in the Schleswig-Holstein (Northern Germany):ten solo concerts which have won praise from both the public and the critics.
Since September 1998 Antonio Acunto studies in London with the pianist Noretta Conci-Leech,.Michelangeli’s disciple.
Pianist Antonio Acunto plays concerts in Italy and abroad with a music repertroire by Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Debussy, Skryabin, Rachmaninoff, with a particular regard for Mozart’s Piano Concertos.
In January 2004 ,with a concert at the ”Herbert Von Karajan Saal” in Berlin, he played Chopin four Scherzi. From this concert Berlin Music University has recorded a CD.
Some of the most Important Concert-Hall:
Mozarteum, Salzburg.
Sender Freies, Berlin.
Schloss Emkendorf, Schleswig-Holstein – Music Festival
Athenaeum (Gran Prix Maria Callas), Athen
Chelsea Arts Club, London
Sala Bossi, Bologna
Teatro Comunale, Bologna
Teatrino di Corte, Palazzo Reale di Napoli
Teatro Verdi, Salerno.
Londra, Istituto Italiano di Cultura
Beethoven- Haus in Bonn
Maschio Angioino in Neaples
In 2007 he recieved the prize “Domenico Rea for Classic Music” and his Chopin’s album was selected in “Manifesto” top ten.
He plays concerts in many American Universities in Italy such as Harding University in Florence, Trinity College in Rome, California University in Bologna.
One of his concerts of June 2008 in Villa Campolieto in Ercolano (Italy) was broadcasted on Sky.
He played in Recital with writer Arnold Stadler, flautist Brigitte Molt and photographer Timm Rautert at Lendes Museum in Bonn and he played in private form for German Prime Minister Angela Merkel.
In June 2010 he played in Germany in Aachen’s Dome a concert organized by Europeische Stiftung Aachener Dom, and in Austria at Klagenfurt (Konzerthaus), Graz (Florentiner Saal der Universitaet fur Musik und Kunst).
In Spring 2011 he played Schubert in Florance, Wuppertal, Stuttgart, Dusseldorf and Memmingen where he got great consents by the public and the critics.
The 17 October 2011 in Bundestag of Bonn he played Schubert’s Wanderer in a Recital with Literature Nobel Prize Herta Muller, organized by Adenauer Stiftung. |
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