ENRICO PACE
Enrico Pace was born in Rimini, Italy. He studied piano with Franco Scala, first at the Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro and later at the Accademia Pianistica Incontri col Maestro in Imola. He also studied conducting and composition. The first prize at the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Utrecht in 1989 proved to be a decisive turning point in his early career.

 

Since then Enrico Pace has played in Europe’s major concert halls, including appearances at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw; in Milan (Sala Verdi and Teatro alla Scala); Rome, Berlin, London, Dublin, Munich, Salzburg, Prague and in various cities in South America. He also performed, among others, at the festivals of La Roque-d’Anthéron, Rheingau, Tours and Husum.

 

A much-liked soloist, he appears with major orchestras such as the Koninklijk Concertgeboworkest of Amsterdam, the Munich Philharmonic, the Bamberger Symphoniker, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra of Santa Cecilia Rome, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Dutch Radio Philharmonic, the Sydney and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras (as part of a tour in Australia and New Zealand), the Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester, the MDR-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra,  the RTE National Symphony Orchestra, the G.Verdi Orchestra  Milan and the Filarmonica Toscanini  Parma.

 

He has performed with the following conductors: Roberto Benzi, David Robertson., Andrey Boreyko, Mark Elder, Janos Fürst, Eliahu Inbal, Lawrence Foster,  Kazimirz Kord, Jiri Kout, Gianandrea Noseda, Vassily Sinaisky, Stanislav Skrowaczewski, Bruno Weil and Antoni Wit.

 

Enrico Pace also greatly enjoys making chamber music. He has worked with the Keller Quartet, the RTE Vanbrugh Quartet, the Quartetto Prometeo and with horn player Marie Luise Neunecker. He took part in the Delft Chamber Music Festival , Kuhmo (Finland), Stresa (Italy), West Cork (Ireland), Lucerne (Switzerland).

 

The 1997/98 season saw the start of a fruitful partnership with violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann with whom he has given numerous recitals throughout Europe, the Far East and South America. Sony Classical released their CD recordings of the Busoni violin sonata no. 2 and of the Bach violin and keyboard sonatas, also available in DVD.

 

Since 2006 Enrico Pace also partners with renowned violinist Leonidas Kavakos.  They have played extensively in Europe  as well as recorded for radio and television production. In 2009 Sony Classical released a recording of Enrico Pace in Mendelssohn’s complete piano trios.