Enrico Dindo was born into a family of musicians. At the age of six he began studying cello and afterwards graduated at the “G. Verdi” Conservatoire of music in Turin. Later on, he perfected his studies with Egidio Roveda and with Antonio Janigro.
In 1987, at the age of 22, he began performing as principal cellist in the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra, for eleven years until 1998.
After receiving the Critics’ Prize at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (1990), Pietro De Maria won First Prize in other prestigious international piano competitions, such as the Dino Ciani – Teatro La Scala in Milan (1990), the Géza Anda in Zurich (1994), and the Mendelssohn Award in Hamburg (1997).
PROGRAMME
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Notturno sull’acqua op. 82a
Silvio Omizzolo
Concerto for cello strings and piano
transcription for cello and piano by the composer
Fryderyk Chopin
Sonata in G minor, op. 65
Cello Enrico Dindo
Piano Pietro De Maria
supported by Omizzolo-Peruzzi Music Foundation, Padua