With \u201ca special ability to present touching interpretations\u201d (El Norte), Brazilian pianist Ronaldo Rolim is a prominent figure among the newest generation of outstanding musicians. Acclaimed for his \u201cconsummate elegance\u201d (New York Concert Review) and \u201cmastery of phrasing, agogic accents, and dynamics\u201d (Oberbaselbieter Zeitung), he has performed extensively over four continents, in such venues such as Carnegie Hall, Zurich\u2019s Tonhalle, London\u2019s Wigmore Hall, the Great Hall of the Liszt Academy in Budapest, and Beijing\u2019s National Centre for the Performing Arts. He is a winner of Astral\u2019s 2017 National Auditions. He has also captured top prizes at numerous international competitions, including the James Mottram, B\u00f6sendorfer, San Marino, Lyon, and Teresa Carre\u00f1o competition, as well as the prestigious Concours G\u00e9za Anda in Zurich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the 2017-2018 season, Mr. Rolim was featured in a celebration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Enrique Granados, with performances of the composer\u2019s complete Goyescas in venues in the U.S., Europe, and Brazil. Recent guest soloist performances include Brahms\u2019 Concerto No. 1 with the Symphony Orchestra of the St. Petersburg State Academic Capella, Debussy\u2019s Fantaisie with the Minas Gerais Philharmonic in Brazil, and a German tour of Beethoven\u2019s Concerto No. 5 with Ukraine\u2019s Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra. Other recent performances include both the Grieg and Schumann concerti at the Septembre Musical Festival in Montreux, Switzerland, the Chausson concerto with the S\u00e3o Paulo String Quartet, and an appearance in \u201cBernstein\u2019s Age of Anxiety\u201d in the Bernstein Centenary Festival hosted by the Minas Gerais Philharmonic. Mr. Rolim has performed with the Tonhalle Orchester Z\u00fcrich, Musikkollegium Winterthur, Concerto Budapest, Phoenix Symphony, and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as many of Brazil\u2019s foremost ensembles. A frequent presence at international music festivals, he has been featured in solo recitals and chamber music performances at Ravinia, Folle Journ\u00e9e, Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Musikdorf Ernen, Acad\u00e9mie Musicale de Villecroze, the Kingston Chamber Music Festival, and the Lake George Music Festival. His performances have been featured in radio broadcasts in Brazil (Radios MEC and Cultura), the U.S. (Spokane Public Radio and WBJC Baltimore), and Europe (Radios SWR 2, BBC 3, Rai 3, and France Musique). He has also been featured in several television programs in his home country, including Brasil Piano Solo, a series of recitals dedicated exclusively to Brazilian music, presented by the TV Cultura Channel. He has also participated in the documentary Magda Tagliaferro: A World Inside The Piano, in which he performed music of Scriabin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A passionate advocate of chamber music, Mr. Rolim is the founding member of Trio Appassionata, formed in 2007 with violinist Lydia Chernicoff and cellist Andrea Casarrubios. Some of the ensemble\u2019s recent projects include tours of Brazil and China, and the release of its debut album gone into night are all the eyes, for Odradek Records. Featuring piano trios by American composers, Gramophone said the disc \u201cdeserves automatic respect\u201d, presenting \u201cmusic-making as impressive and dangerous as a granite cliff\u201d (International Record Review). Mr. Rolim greatly enjoys working with diverse chamber musicians, and has performed with the Aizuri and S\u00e3o Paulo string quartets, and members of Ensemble Connect, the Baltimore Symphony, the Brazilian Symphony, and Bronx Arts Ensemble. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ronaldo Rolim began musical studies with his mother, Miriam Correa, and gave his first public performance at the age of four. He was admitted to the Magda Tagliaferro School in S\u00e3o Paulo as a student of Zilda Candida dos Santos and Armando Fava Filho. After winning the Nelson Freire and the Magda Tagliaferro national piano competitions at the age of 18, he moved to the U.S., where he studied with Flavio Varani at Oakland University (Michigan), Benjamin Pasternack at the Peabody Conservatory, and Boris Berman at the Yale School of Music. He recently concluded his doctoral thesis on the wartime programmatic works of Karol Szymanowski at Yale University, which will serve as the basis for a recording project to be released in 2019. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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