Keene Center Recital Series
2007-2008
Monday October 1st, 11:30 am
Pianist Richard Cionco will perform an all Beethoven recital at UFL as a guest of the Music School's piano department.
Program will include the Bagatelles op. 126 and Sonatas op. 109 and op. 111.
Mr. Cionco was a Teaching Fellow for David Dubal at The Juilliard School for four years and is presently Associate Professor of Piano at California State University, Sacramento. Recent appearances include those at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, University of Alaska, Western Washington University, Memphis State, New Mexico State, Kent State, San Jose State, San Francisco State, the Chicago College of the Performing Arts, the University of Nevada Las Vegas, Tulane University, and in Santa Clara, CA at the State Convention of the Music Teachers Association. He teaches and performs each summer at the Schlern International Music Festival located in the Italian Alps.
Mr. Cionco performed as soloist with orchestras including the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra, and with the Seijo Symphony of Tokyo in Washington, D.C. the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Las Cruces Symphony (NM), the new Folsom Symphony (CA), the Auburn Symphony (CA), the Saratoga Symphony (CA), with orchestras in Oakland and San Diego, and has been featured with the Lawton Philharmonic in Oklahoma as a winner in the Louise D. McMahon International Music Competition. In Europe, he has performed concerti with the Czech State Chamber Orchestra, and in Prague's Smetana Hall with the North Bohemian Philharmonic Orchestra as a winner in the Prague Spring International Music Competition. In 1996 he performed Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 3 seven times on tour in Japan and Taiwan with the California Youth Symphony; the performance in Osaka was broadcast on Japan Television and has been released as a live and unedited compact disc.