FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Maggie Estes, Director of Marketing and Public Relations,
mestes@cliburn.org, 817.738.6536 (o), 817.739.0459 (c)
Fort Worth, Texas, February 21, 2012-Mariangela Vacatello,
finalist and winner of the Internet Audience Award at the 2009 Van
Cliburn International Piano Competition, will present a free
concert on Monday, March 5, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. at ACH Child &
Family Services, located at 3712 Wichita Street, Fort Worth, Texas
76119. This performance is open to the public and does not require
a ticket.
The Cliburn presents the free Community Concerts series annually
across Fort Worth. This year's concerts have been generously
underwritten by Chesapeake Energy and are produced as part of the
Cliburn's education program with the goal of making first-rate,
live classical music performances accessible to all. The Cliburn's
Community Concerts provide a casual and engaging atmosphere for
audiences to learn about and experience the classical masterpieces
played by the featured performers. In addition to Ms. Vacatello's
recital at ACH Child & Family Services, performances will also
be held at local community centers:
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Como Community Center
3:30 p.m.
4900 Horne Street
Fort Worth, TX 76107
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Southwest Community Center
4:00 p.m.
6300 Welch Ave.
Fort Worth, TX 76133
MARIANGELA VACATELLO BIOGRAPHY
A finalist and winner of the Internet Audience Award at the
Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Mariangela
Vacatello is in high demand for engagements in prestigious venues
worldwide, making appearances in Berlin Konzerthaus, Wigmore Hall
in London, Mozarteum Auditorium in Salzberg, and Weill Recital Hall
at Carnegie Hall in New York, among others. She has appeared in
concert with international orchestras such as the Lithuanian
Symphony, Stuttgart Philharmonic, Johannesburg Philharmonic, and
Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana, and performed across the United
States as a soloist with the Odessa Philharmonic of Ukraine in its
American tour. Ms. Vacatello has also appeared as a soloist and
chamber musician throughout the United States, France, the United
Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Croatia, and South
Africa.
In addition to her achievement in the Cliburn Competition, she was
awarded the Top of the World International Piano Competition First
Prize in Norway in 2009. She has also received a Laureate Prize at
the 2007 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, second prize at
the 2005 Busoni Competition, and second prize at the 1999 Franz
Liszt International Piano Competition in Utrecht.
Ms. Vacatello divides her time between homes in London and Milan.
She is an advanced pastry chef and also pursues an interest in
interior design in her leisure time. She enjoys playing music for
four-hand piano with her husband, organist Adriano Falcioni.
ABOUT THE VAN CLIBURN FOUNDATION
The Van Cliburn Foundation disseminates classical music worldwide,
and nurtures and launches young artists' careers through the
quadrennial Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, the
ensuing three-year international concert tours of its medalists,
award-winning documentaries, radio broadcasts, and a live webcast
that extends its outreach to listeners around the world. In 2009,
over 2,857,573 total streams were delivered to viewers from 157
countries/territories.
The Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition will
take place May 24-June 9, 2013, at Fort Worth's Bass Performance
Hall and will welcome 30 of the world's finest young pianists to
Texas. Continuing its longstanding commitment to new music, the
Cliburn has selected composer Christopher Theofanidis to write the
commissioned work that will be performed by all competitors during
the Semifinal Round. Additionally, the Competition has been
dedicated to showcasing both the extraordinary talent of its
competitors in recital performance as well as their ability to
collaborate with other musicians. The Fourteenth Competition will
mark the first Cliburn appearance by the world-renowned Brentano
String Quartet performing a piano quintet with each of the 12
semifinalists. The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, which has
appeared at
every Cliburn Competition, will perform two concerti
with each of the six finalists, under the baton of Maestro Leonard
Slatkin for the first time. Maestro John Giordano will serve as
chairman of the jury for his eleventh Competition since assuming
the post in 1973.
For audiences in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, the Van Cliburn
Foundation promotes great music and world-class artists through the
annual Cliburn Concerts series. It reaches 33,000 elementary school
students annually with the education programs of Musical
Awakenings®. In 1999, it established the International Piano
Competition for Outstanding Amateurs™, which The Boston Globe
proclaimed "a celebration of music, and the people who have to make
music, no matter what." The sixth Amateur Competition was held May
23-29, 2011, at Ed Landreth Auditorium on the campus of TCU.
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