Guest pianists Plano, Del Negro team up for four-hands recital
From Cape Town, South Africa, to Taipei, Taiwan, to Bali to Singapore to Fayetteville, Arkansas — name it, and Italian…
From Cape Town, South Africa, to Taipei, Taiwan, to Bali to Singapore to Fayetteville, Arkansas — name it, and Italian…
Roberto Plano started tinkering with a children’s keyboard not long after learning to walk. Now, he plays a grown-up piano…
Beethoven enthusiasts know that his compositions can be broken into three categories based on the mood they accomplish. Though Chautauquans heard two works Thursday night from his middle, or “heroic” period, the two Beethoven works spanned a wide range, credited to varying interpretation between conductor and soloist.
Pianist Roberto Plano looks for something beyond perfection when he plays music.
He believes that every musician must strive to balance technical mastery with musical expression. A musician who is technically perfect but doesn’t have an artistic message is less musical than a musician who can play with emotion and vitality despite his or her mistakes, he said.