Born in Naples in 1947, Michele Campanella won the Alfredo Casella Prize at age 19, after studying with Vincenzo Vitale. This led to an international performing career, taking him to many countries. He regularly appeared at international music festivals such as Lucerne, Vienna, Berlin, Prague, Taormina, Turin, and Pesaro, and worked with such conductors as Claudio Abbado, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Vernon Handley, Eliahu Inbal, Sir Charles Mackerras, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Georges Prêtre, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Thomas Schippers, Hubert Soudant, and Christian Thielemann.

Michele has devoted complete seasons to a single composer - Franz Liszt, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Johannes Brahms. He has recorded the complete works of Beethoven, the Mozart piano concertos, the complete variations by Brahms, and the complete Hungarian Rhapsodies and many of the major transcriptions of Liszt. For his Liszt recordings, Campanella received the Grand Prix du Disque of the Franz Liszt Society in Budapest in 1976, 1977 and 1998, as well as the "Premio della critica discografica italiana" in 1980. Internationally, he is known as one of the best interpreters of Liszt’s repertoire.

In addition to the composers mentioned above, his recordings include works by Balakirev, Busoni, Chopin, Clementi, Mussorgsky, Poulenc, Ravel, Rossini, Saint-Saens, Domenico Scarlatti, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, and Weber.

The year 2013 is the bicentennial year of the birth of Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi, and Campanella will be engaged in a long series of concerts in Italy and abroad dedicated to Franz Liszt’s Paraphrases, a place of meeting in music between the works and lives of the two composers. In September, Michele will tour in South America, along with the violinist Boris Belkin, and in October they will tour in China.

Date: 2013. 10. 19

Venue: Beijing Concert Hall

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