BIOGRAPHY
Winner
of several national and international prizes, the pianist from Milan Adalberto
Maria Riva received in 2008 a special mention at the International Competition
of Music IBLA Grand Prize. A distinction
which allows him to undertake a tour in the USA in April 2009 with a concert in
Carnegie Hall, New York. During this same month of April he has performed in
Canada as soloist with the Sherbrooke University Orchestra and in duet, in
Montreal, with the Swiss flautist Christian Delafontaine.
His way of
playing very elegant and aristocratic (A Bellisario, Il Cittadino) is
expressed by touch loaded with great strength of communication and
interpretation, with a sound which is not only clear and cristal but which reveals
to be equally rich in colours and shades quite unthinkable (R. Zanobini, La
Provincia di Lecco): that is a sure sign
of artistic communication (Jeffrey James, www.jamesarts.com).
After a classical
maturité obtained at the Lycée Berchet in Milan, a diploma with
distinction at the Academy in the same town and the participation in many
master-classes in Italy, Germany, England and the USA (given by well known
performers like Paul Badura-Skoda, Lazar Berman, Vitaly Margulis, Bruno Canino
and Aldo Ciccolini) Adalberto Maria Riva obtained his Virtuosity in 2001 at the
Conservatoire de Lausanne. Adalberto Maria Riva has played as soloist for the
International festival of Bergamo, Brescia and for the Mozarteum in Salzburg.
He has also
performed many times with the Timisoara Philarmonic in Romania under the
direction of Jean François Antonioli and with the orchestras Angelicum and
Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan, under the direction of Daniele Gatti, Enrique
Mazzola, Massimiliano Caldi and Hiroaki Masuda. He has given recitals in Spain,
England, Russia, Hungary, Croatia, Germany, Austria, Poland, Malta and
Montecarlo. Amongst his most recent engagements let us mention his
participation in the Settimane Musicali in Lugano, at the Schubertiade of Espace 2, (the next will be in September 2009
in Payerne) and the 49th edition of the Barga Festival in Tuscany.
His repertory
develops from Bach to contemporary, a line that
Adalberto Maria Riva presents in a cycle of concert-conferences applied
to the history and pianistic literature in a number of cultural and musical
institutions in Switzerland (Geneva
Conservatory of music, Hindemith
Foundation in Blonay, Centre Pro-Natura
at Champ-pittet in Yverdon), in Italy (Icimus in Schio, Circolo culturale il
Castello in La Spezia) and in different libraries and associations in the North
of Lombardy where he lives. He also collaborates with the creation and
direction of theatrical presentations to which necessitate support for both
music and text.
After teaching
for a number of years in different music schools (Ecole Croqu’notes in Versoix
Switzerland), at the moment he is accompanying pianist at the Conservatorio Guido Cantelli in
Novara where he just completed with honours his thesis on the piano
transcriptions by Adolfo Fumagalli. For the occasion of the 150th
anniversary of the death of this Italian composer-pianist, he has recorded a CD
and has organised a round-table with the collaboration of the Comune of Inzago, Fumagalli’s birth town. An event which has seen the participation of
Maestro Ettore Borri , specialist of Italian music and of Professor Quirino
Principe, the well known Italian musicologist.
Adalberto Maria
Riva is also co-founder and artistic director of Momenti Musicali, a
cultural association which presented , in 2007, its first agenda of concerts.
He had also
recorded several CDs also radio programmes particularly for the Swiss Radio
Espace 2.
