Music For Peace in Sana
You fill as a bird when you flay with her music .Music for peace is the title of her wonderful tune . CRISTIANA PEGORARO ,the Italian pianist visits Yemen for the first time by invitation of the Italian embassy in Sana'a.In the frame work of the cultural bilateral cooperation, the embassy organized a music party to the Italian pianist yesterday in Sana'a Sheraton Hotel.
Who is She ?
Acclaimed as one of the most gifted musicians of her generation, Italian-born pianist Cristiana Pegoraro has consistently entertained and enlightened audiences with her inspired performances and original programming.
Her numerous awards and prizes include the Città di Senigallia, Città di Marsala, Domenico Scarlatti (Naples) and Artists International Special Presentation Debut Award (New York). In Prague she won the 1989 Best of the Year for Classical Music Award "for her great personality, strong musical temperament, mastery of phrasing and expressive artistry." The New York Times called her "an artist of the highest caliber" following her stunning 1996 debut at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall.
Ms. Pegoraro has performed in some of the greatest concert halls in Europe, United States, South America and Australia, including Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the United Nations and the Guggenheim Museum (New York); the Sydney Opera House; Grosses Saal, Festspielhaus (Salzburg); Bösendorfer Saal (Vienna); Centro Cultural de Belem (Lisbon); Santa Cecilia Auditorium (Rome), Serate Musicali (Milan); Teatro Municipal (São Paulo); Teatro Municipal (Rio de Janeiro), and the Opera House (Manaus). She also performed at the Budapest Spring Festival, the Saint Petersburg Festival, the Edinburgh Festival, the Sorrento Jazz Festival, the Klavierfestival Ruhr - Germany, and the 2005 World Expo in Aichi - Japan, among others.
On November 15th, 2003, she played for the President of Italy, Mr. Carlo Azeglio Ciampi. Later that same month, on the occasion of the Italian Presidency of the European Council, she performed in her eighth (sold out) concert at Lincoln Center at the presence of the President of the General Assembly of the United Nations. On June 13th, 2006, at the United Nations Headquarters, she played for Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg.
Hailed by the critics as among the best interpreters of Cuban and South American music, Ms. Pegoraro has premiered to European audiences the works of Latin-American composers such as Astor Piazzolla, Joaquin Nin and Ernesto Lecuona. Recently, she also has arranged some of their great works for solo piano, including the best tangos of Astor Piazzolla and a Fantasy on Cuban dances by Ernesto Lecuona.
She has been a featured artist on radio and television, on WQXR New York (USA), RAI, Mediaset (Italy), the BBC (Scotland), ARD (Germany), RTP (Portugal), Nine Network (Australia) and CBC (Japan). Her piano artistry can be heard on twenty-one compact discs released by Decision Products, Dynamic, Nuova Era, and her own DIVA label label.
Recently, Cristiana has taken up the challenge of composition, releasing two highly acclaimed albums "A Musical Journey" and "Ithaka." She also composed the sound track for the videopoem "For Whom the Sirens Toll," produced by the United Nations Office of the Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict and presented at the United Nations on September 11, 2004, in remembrance of the terrorist attack victims.
Ms. Pegoraro graduated with highest honors from the Conservatory of Terni, Italy, at the age of sixteen. She continued her studies with Jörg Demus in Vienna and Hans Leygraf at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. She later studied with Nina Svetlanova at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City.
In the last few years Cristiana has been collaborating with world peace organizations such as Unicef, Amnesty International, the World Food Programme and Emergency supporting their campaigns to improve the life of less fortunate people around the world. On October 30th, 2005, at her 10th sold out concert at Lincoln Center, she was honored with the Circolo Culturale Italiano of the United Nations World Peace Award for her support to the cause of advancing peace in the world.
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