Igor Cognolato, Piano
Performances by Igor Cognolato
| Composer | Title | Date | Action |
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| Maurice Ravel | La vallée des cloches, from Miroirs | 07/08/2011 |
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| Maurice Ravel | Une barque sur l'océan, from Miroirs | 05/12/2011 |
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| Maurice Ravel | Oiseaux tristes, from Miroirs | 06/25/2011 |
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| Maurice Ravel | Noctuelles from Miroirs | 06/27/2011 |
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| Maurice Ravel | Alborada del Gracioso, from Miroirs | 05/04/2011 |
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| Maurice Ravel | Blues, from Sonata for violin and piano | 06/20/2011 |
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| Franz Liszt | Scherzo and March, S.177 | 05/03/2011 |
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| Alfredo Casella | Toccata from Sinfonia,Arioso e Toccata op.59 | 06/19/2011 |
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| Olivier Messiaen | Thème et Variations for Violin and Piano | 06/11/2011 |
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| Alfredo Casella | Arioso from Sinfonia,Arioso e Toccata op.59 | 06/11/2011 |
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| Alfredo Casella | Sinfonia from Sinfonia,Arioso e Toccata, op.59 | 06/11/2011 |
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| Robert Schumann | Dritte Sonate für Klavier und Violine op. post. | 06/12/2011 |
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| Michael Staudt | Introduzione e Capriccio su un tema di Edward Elgar | 06/02/2011 |
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| Arno Babadjanian | Poeme | 05/07/2011 |
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| giorgio farina | daedalus music | 05/05/2011 |
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Igor Cognolato, Piano
Biography
Born in Treviso, Italy, on November 10th, 1965, Igor Cognolato started at the age of five his musical training with Ida Longhino; at nineteen he obtained his diploma magna cum laude in piano performance at the Academy "Benedetto Marcello" in Venice (piano) under Vincenzo Pertile and three years later his choir conducting diploma at the Academy "Felice Evaristo dall'Abaco" in Verona. He pursued his musical education at the Academy of Music in Hanover, Germany, with the Master degree of Music in piano performace under brazilian pianist Roberto Szidon: his debut followed with NDR Symphony Orchestra with Franz Liszt's Second Pianoconcerto live recorded and broadcasted. Among his teachers for composition and piano figure also Ugo Amendola, Michele Marvulli, Dario De Rosa (Trio di Trieste's pianist), Aldo Ciccolini and Paul Badura-Skoda.
Igor Cognolato has performed through all over Western Europe and U.S.A., always with huge success. Soloist with several orchestras (Radiophilharmonie Hanover, Sofia chamber Orchestra, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Bourgas Philharmonic, Sliven Philharmonic, Astrakhan Symphony, Orchestra del Gran Teatro La Fenice di Venezia), he recorded for RAI, RAI Eurovision, NDR Radio, and for Norwegian National Radio. Since 2009 he performs together with Athenaeum Berlin Philharmonic String Quartett; recently they took part to Aix-en-Provence chamber music festival and their performance has been live broadscasted for ARTE tv channel.
Igor Cognolato presently teaches Piano Performance at the Academy of music "Giuseppe Tartini" in Trieste, Italy.He has been invited in last three years to give master classes at the Austrian Academies (Musikhochschule) in Graz and in Vienna, in Lübeck (Germany) and in London (Trinity college of music).