Italian pianist Fernando Altamura will give a recital of contemporary piano works Friday, April 30, at 8 p.m. in Emerson Auditorium in the Taylor Music Center. Admission is free. The winner of numerous international competitions, Altamura has performed across Europe and Asia.
He won Second Prize at the 2006 Bitola International Pianofest Competition in Macedonia, Second Prize at the 2008 Panama International Piano Competition and is the recipient of the 2004 Salzburg International Summer Academy Prize. He is currently a student of Peter Frankl at the Yale School of Music.
Altamura’s program will include Iberia, Book 1, by Isaac Albeniz; Bagatelles, by Australian composer Carl Vine; Etudes by Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara; as well as sonatas by Leos Janacek and Henri Dutilleux.