专家介绍--理查德•斯昂科[美]

美国音乐公开赛组委会

                           专家介绍--理查德•斯昂科[美]

理查德﹒斯昂科（Richard Cionco）
多纳尔·汉奈恩在纽约时报中曾经盛赞理查德﹒斯昂科“敏锐的钢琴演奏技巧”—他在九岁时就作为独奏者和管弦乐队登台演奏，从此便和许多管弦乐队一起演奏，其中包括凤凰交响乐队和室内管弦乐队，奥克兰城市交响乐团；并曾在美国首都华盛顿东京的圣女交响乐团的一次音乐会上演奏，这次音乐会是为了纪念日本进入联合国。他多次返回墨西哥以独奏者的身份在拉斯﹒克鲁斯交响乐团演出，并以路易斯﹒D﹒麦克曼国际音乐大赛获胜者的身份在俄克拉荷马的莱顿爱乐乐团作为主要演奏者。在欧洲，他曾在捷克国家室内管弦乐团的音乐会上演出，曾经以布拉格春天国际音乐比赛优胜者的身份，在布拉格史麦塔那厅和北方波希米亚爱乐交响乐团演出。1997年4月，斯昂科先生曾到丹麦旅行，并在Kolding Kommune Musikskolen 讲授大师课程，同时还举行了公开独奏演出。最近，他和加州青年交响乐团在日本和台湾7次演奏了拉赫玛尼诺夫第三钢琴协奏曲；他在大阪的演奏由日本电视播出，并以直播而未做任何修订的CD录音公开发行。

理查德﹒斯昂科几乎在美国所有的主要城市都举行了钢琴独奏。他演奏的李斯特的《12首超级技巧练习曲》受到热评。华盛顿邮报的Ed 罗伯特评论说：“我几乎从未听到过象理查德﹒斯昂科在周日演奏得那样精美的钢琴独奏…….斯昂科精湛技艺，引人入胜，在钢琴上，演奏出不同音色优美的曲调。” 斯昂科先生曾经在纽约卡耐基音乐厅、卡耐基伊萨克·斯特恩礼堂、纽约林肯中心爱丽丝托尼音乐厅、纽约墨尔金音乐厅、纽约斯坦威音乐厅以及芝加哥文化中心等举行过重要的演出。他的演出曾经由公共电视台以及一些广播电台诸如国家公共广播电台、捷克国家广播电台、丹麦广播电台及北加州的国会大厦公共广播电台播出。

作为一名国际性施坦威艺术家，斯昂科先生先后毕业于马里兰大学和茱莉亚学院；他曾从师鲁道夫·费尔古斯尼、托马斯·舒美克、奥德雷·巴特·布朗。曾在阿尔波特·弗勒的指导下，学习室内音乐。在茱莉亚学院，他是奖学金获得者，他也被授予海伦·菲钢琴奖和卡尔·M·罗德纪念钢琴奖。他也是国家艺术捐赠奖钢琴独奏奖及纽约市巴格比音乐艺术基金会职业捐助获得者。同时，他还是许多比赛获胜者，这些比赛包括孟菲斯国家钢琴大师赛、图森美洲钢琴基金赛以及在纽约市举行的弗里纳·阿韦布赫国际钢琴比赛和国家艺术俱乐部钢琴比赛。

理查德﹒斯昂科曾在茱莉亚学院任教及任大卫·杜巴尔助教四年。他现在为座落于加州首府萨克拉门托的加州州立大学钢琴教授。每年夏季，他都要在位于意大利阿尔卑斯山的仕勒恩国际音乐节演出和讲学。

RICHARD CIONCO

Pianist Richard Cionco—Praised by Donal Henahan of the New York Times for his “sensitive pianism”—first performed as soloist with orchestra at age nine, and has since performed with many orchestras including the Phoenix Symphony and Chamber Orchestra, the Oakland Civic Symphony, and the Seijo Symphony of Tokyo in a concert in Washington D.C. that commemorated Japan’s admission to the United Nations. He has returned to New Mexico many times to perform as recitalist as well as soloist with the Las Cruces Symphony Orchestra, and has been featured with the Lawton Philharmonic Orchestra in Oklahoma as a winner in the Louise D. McMahon International Music Competition. In Europe, he has performed concerti with the Czech State Chamber Orchestra, and in Prague’s Smetana Hall with the North Bohemian Philharmonic Orchestra as a winner in the Prague Spring International Music Competition. In April, 1997, Mr. Cionco traveled to Denmark where he gave a master class at the Kolding Kommune Musikskolen and a public recital. Recently, he performed Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.3 seven times on tour in Japan and Taiwan with the California Youth Symphony; the performance in Osaka was broadcast on Japan Television and has been released as a live and unedited CD recording.
Richard Cionco has performed in recitals in nearly every major U.S. city. His performances of Liszt’s complete 12 Transcendental Etudes have brought him rave reviews. Ed Roberts of the Washington Post wrote: “ I have rarely heard as fine a piano recital as the one Richard Cionco gave on Sunday….Cionco’s virtuosity was impressive and he drew beautifully varied tone colors from the instrument.” Important performances also include those at New York’s Carnegie Recital Hall and Carnegie’s Isaac Stern Auditorium, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Merkin Concert Hall and Steinway Hall, as well as the Chicago Cultural Center.  He has also been heard on public television and radio broadcasts such as National Public Radio, Czech National Radio, Danish Radio, and Capitol Public Radio in Northern California.
An International Steinway Artist, Mr. Cionco is a graduate of the University of Maryland and the Juilliard school; his major teachers include Rudolf Firkusny, Thomas Schumacher, and Audrey Bart Brown. He studied chamber music under Albert Fuller. A scholarship and fellowship recipient at Juilliard, he was also awarded the Helen Fay Prize and the Carl M. Roeder Memorial Prize in Piano. A recipient of Solo Recitalists Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a career grant from the Bagby Foundations for the Musical Arts in New York City, he is also winner of many competitions including the National Masters Piano Competition in Memphis, and the National Arts club Competition, in New York City.
Mr. Cionco was a Teaching Fellow and Assistant to David Dubal at the Juilliard School for four years and is presently Professor of Piano at California State University, Sacramento. He teaches and performs each summer at the Schlern International Music Festival located in the Italian Alps.