PIETRO DE MARIA

After winning the Critics’ Prize at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1990, Pietro De Maria was awarded First Prize at the Dino Ciani International Competition at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan (1990) and at the Géza Anda Competition in Zurich (1994). In 1997, he received the Mendelssohn Award in Hamburg.

His intensive concert activity includes solo appearances with prestigious orchestras and conductors such as Roberto Abbado, Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli, Gary Bertini, Myung-Whun Chung, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Daniele Gatti, Alan Gilbert, Eliahu Inbal, Marek Janowski, Ton Koopman, Michele Mariotti, Ingo Metzmacher, Gianandrea Noseda, Corrado Rovaris, Daniele Rustioni, Yutaka Sado, Sándor Végh, and Jonathan Webb.

Born in Venice in 1967, De Maria began studying the piano with Giorgio Vianello and graduated under the guidance of Gino Gorini at the Conservatory of his hometown. He furthered his studies with Maria Tipo at the Geneva Conservatory, where he obtained the Premier Prix de Virtuosité with distinction in 1988.

His repertoire spans from Bach to Ligeti, and he is one of the very few pianists in the world to have performed the complete works of Chopin in a series of six public concerts. He has carried out a Bach project, performing both books of the Well-Tempered Clavier and the Goldberg Variations, and more recently completed the performance cycle of the complete Beethoven Sonatas and Concertos.

He has recorded the complete works of Chopin, the Well-Tempered Clavier, and the Goldberg Variations for DECCA, and the Chopin Concertos with Daniele Rustioni and the ORT for Dynamic, receiving high praise from specialized music critics, including Diapason, International Piano, MusicWeb-International, and Pianiste.