D'Onofrio Sandro
Piano
Sandro D’Onofrio is an Italian pianist among the most appreciated in the international music scene. Formed with Eke Mendez and Nora Doallo, students of the school of Vincenzo Scaramuzza in Buenos Aires. It is perfected later with Jakob Gimpel in Los Ángeles and Eduardo Vercelli in Geneva and again later with Aldo Ciccolini, Alexis Weissenberg and Maria Joao Pires. At the same time he became passionate about the chamber repertoire thanks to the meeting with Sándor Vegh and Alberto Lysy who invites him to collaborate with his comrade in the context of the foundation "Yehudi Menuhin" recognizing him great esteem artistic. He later studied with Bruno Giuranna and Riccardo Brengola attaining the chamber music diploma at the academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome.
He has played as a soloist in various chamber formations in all of Europe, the United States, The Far East and Latin America by making numerous recordings on disks.
He has been living for years in Lugano where he teaches at the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana. He has an intense concert activity and holds several piano Master Classes.
Since the spring of 2016 he performs in the theater with the Italian actor Giuseppe Cederna in the play "Mozart. Ritratto di un genio", inspired by the biography of Wolfgang Hildesheimer "Mozart".
Sandro D’Onofrio has indeed dedicated a passionate and in depth study of the composer from Salzburg.
His interpretation is constantly a great success with the public and critics.
