Roll over Beethoven
Award winning Italian pianist Christian Leotta will be back in Bangkok next week where he’ll perform with the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vanich Potavanich on Thursday at the Thailand Cultural Centre’s Small Hall.
The concert is being organised within the framework of the Italian Festival in Thailand 2017, which comprises more than 50 cultural events taking place in Bangkok throughout the year. Admission to all events is free but registration is required.
Born in Catania, Leotta is the youngest pianist since Daniel Barenboim to perform and record all 32 Beethoven Piano Sonatas. He began learning the piano at the age of seven, furthering his studies at the Milan Conservatory under Mario Patuzzi and is a former pupil of the acclaimed pianist Karl Ulrich Schnabel. He also studied at the Theo Lieven International Piano Foundation and with Rosalyn Tureck at the Tureck Bach Research Foundation in Oxford, England.
Leotta’s career began his career in 2002 in Montreal at the age of 22 and he made a name for myself by performing the complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas in less than a month.
Leotta has worked with major orchestras such as the Munchner Philharmoniker, the Wiener Kammerorchester, the Italian RAI National Television Orchestra, the Milan’s Symphony Orchestra “Giuseppe Verdi”, regularly performing in important theatres and concert halls such as the Philharmonie at the Gasteig in Munich, the Konzerthaus of Vienna, the Tonhalle of Zurich, the Sala Verdi and the Auditorium of Milan, the Salle Claude-Champagne of Montreal, the Great Hall at the Bunka Kaikan Theatre of Tokyo.
He performed in Bangkok in 2014 and 2015.
The Piano Concertos No. 1, No. 2 and No. 4 that he will perform in this concert, complete the entire cycle of the 5 Beethoven Piano Concertos. Register at www.EventBrite.com or find out more at Facebook.com/ItalianFestivalThailand/
