The Aloha International Piano Festival (AIPF) today announced that celebrated pianists Jon Nakamatsu and Fabio Bidini will headline the 12th annual music festival, which runs from June 17 to 25, 2017 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Nakamatsu and Bidini will join forces for one special afternoon at the University of Hawai?i at M?noa's Orvis Auditorium, in a program featuring beautiful masterworks by Schumann and Brahms, at 4 pm on Sunday, June 25. Joining Nakamatsu and Bidini are cellist Mark Votapek, violinists Sabrina-Vivian Hoepker and Ignace "Iggy" Jang, and violist Emma Votapek. Tickets are $30 and are on sale now at aipf.ticketleap.com.
The 2017 festival marks the AIPF debut of Bidini, who is praised as one of this generation's top-flight pianists. His appearances have included performances with The London Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, New World Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Budapest Festival Orchestra, and the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra. Bidini has been awarded first prize in 11 of Italy's most prestigious national piano competitions and has been the recipient of the top prizes awarded in eight international competitions: Terni, Köln, Busoni 1988 and 1992, Pretoria, Marsala, London and the Van Cliburn. In 2015, he became the first recipient of the Carol Grigor Piano Chair at The Colburn School in Los Angeles. Previously, he held the position of Professor of Piano at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin, one of Europe's premiere music conservatories. AIPF is honored to welcome the return of Nakamatsu, winner of the Tenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and a popular festival faculty member. A California native who spent much of his childhood on Oahu, he draws unanimous praise as a true aristocrat of the keyboard whose playing combines elegance, clarity and electrifying power. Together with Bidini, Nakamatsu has created a beautiful program for the Sunday concert, including Schumann's Adagio and Allegro, and Piano Quintet in E flat major, plus the Brahms Piano Quartet in G minor.
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