Alberto Neuman
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Alberto Neuman is a Argentinian pianist.
A disciple of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
, Neuman began his career while a student at the Roma Conservatory. In 1961 he won the international Viotti Piano Competition in Vercelli]. He studied also with Carlo Zecchi
, Walter Gieseking
, Vincenzo Scaramuzza
, Galia Schalman and Wilhelm Kempff
.
Neuman has been active as a concert pianist mainly in Europe, but has also performed regularly at Japan and Latin America. He was previously a professor at the Paris Conservatoire Supérieur and at the Conservatoire d'Angoulême. Alberto Neuman is often seen as a foremost representative of argentinian culture in Europe : "Comment serait Paris aujourd'hui, s'il lui manquait les échos du bandonéon de Piazzolla, sans la voix d'Atahualpa Yupanqui, sans les pièces de Lavelli ou d'Arias, sans les claviers de Martha Argerich ou d'Alberto Neuman, sans les figures peintes par Le Parc, sans les portraits laissés par Cortazar, sans la présence constante dans l'air parisien de la prose et des vers de Borges, sans le tango ?"
weltkunst website
A disciple of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli was a virtuoso Italian classical pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, as well as one of the most important Italian pianists along with Ferruccio Busoni and Maurizio Pollini.-Biography:Born in Brescia, Italy, he began...
, Neuman began his career while a student at the Roma Conservatory. In 1961 he won the international Viotti Piano Competition in Vercelli]. He studied also with Carlo Zecchi
Carlo Zecchi
Carlo Zecchi was an Italian pianist, music teacher and conductor.Zecchi was born in Rome. He led pianistic courses in Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome, and in Salzburg. Highly acclaimed performer of Domenico Scarlatti, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Claude Debussy works, and of Romantic...
, Walter Gieseking
Walter Gieseking
Walter Wilhelm Gieseking was a French-born German pianist and composer.-Biography:Born in Lyon, France, the son of a German doctor and lepidopterist, Gieseking first started playing the piano at the age of four, but without formal instruction...
, Vincenzo Scaramuzza
Vincenzo Scaramuzza
Vincenzo Scaramuzza -in spanish: Vicente Scaramuzza- was an Italian Argentine pianist and music teacher.Scaramuzza was born in Crotone, Italy, on June 19, 1885. Introduced to the piano by his father, Francesco, he was a concert performer by age seven, and enrolled in the prestigious San Pietro a...
, Galia Schalman and Wilhelm Kempff
Wilhelm Kempff
Wilhelm Walter Friedrich Kempff was a German pianist and composer. Although his repertory included Bach, Liszt, Chopin, Schumann, and Brahms, Kempff was particularly well-known for his interpretations of the music of Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert, both of whose complete sonatas he also...
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Neuman has been active as a concert pianist mainly in Europe, but has also performed regularly at Japan and Latin America. He was previously a professor at the Paris Conservatoire Supérieur and at the Conservatoire d'Angoulême. Alberto Neuman is often seen as a foremost representative of argentinian culture in Europe : "Comment serait Paris aujourd'hui, s'il lui manquait les échos du bandonéon de Piazzolla, sans la voix d'Atahualpa Yupanqui, sans les pièces de Lavelli ou d'Arias, sans les claviers de Martha Argerich ou d'Alberto Neuman, sans les figures peintes par Le Parc, sans les portraits laissés par Cortazar, sans la présence constante dans l'air parisien de la prose et des vers de Borges, sans le tango ?"
Discography
- Noblesse du Tango – ARION ARN 36 299 (1975) (LP) (France) – works by Igor Stravinski, Isaac Albéniz, Juan José Castro, Juan-Francisco Giacobbe, Darius Milhaud, Alberto Ginastera, Erik Satie, Astor Piazzolla, Alberto Neuman (1975)
- Tango Perpétuel – BUDA Musique BCD 92630-2 (1995) (CD) (France) – works by Ernesto Nazareth, Juan José Castro, Igor Stravinsky, Gerardo Hernán Matos-Rodríguez, Astor Piazzolla, Ernesto Baffa, Alberto Ginastera, Kurt Weill, Darius Milhaud, Jacob Gades, Alberto Neuman, Isaac Albéniz, Maurice Ohana, Giacomo Puccini, Erik Satie (1995)
- Tango Perpétuel II – BUDA Musique BCD 92651-2 (1996) (CD) (France) – works by Bohuslav Martinu, Gerardo Hernán Matos-Rodríguez, Astor Piazzolla, Ernesto Nazareth, Tom Johnson, Vladimir Cosma, Ernesto Baffa, Alberto Neuman, Scott Joplin, Juan Francisco Giacobbe, Alberto Ginastera (1996)
- Mario Bertoncini : Mario Bertoncini – Edition RZ LP-1002 (1989) (LP) (Germany) – works by Mario Bertoncini, Earle Brown et John Cage (Alberto Neuman avec Mario Bertoncini et Maura Cova, pour trois pianos préparés (1970)
- Mikis Theodorakis : Canto General
- Nagaokakyo Chamber Ensemble / Yuko Mori: Orient & Occident – HYBRID Disc SACD NF60104 (2003) (CD) (Japan)
External links
websiteweltkunst website
- weltkunst 1 interview with Alberto Neuman (french)
- weltkunst 2 video recordings
- Centro di Documentazione "Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli" of Brescia (Italy) centro ABM
- Odeon by Ernesto Nazareth (2007) you tube
- Arabesque by Claude Debussy (2008) you tube