Pompa-Baldi performs in Faculty Recital on Wednesday, September 26 WCLV 104.9 FM is broadcasting segments of the 11th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Thursday, September 27, at 9 p.m. By Joanna Chang
	RELATED Oberlin Conservatory Pianist Wins Silver Medal in Van Cliburn Competition		On Wednesday, September 26 at 8 PM in Warner Hall, pianist Antonio Pompa-Baldi will perform in a faculty recital. This fall he joins the Oberlin Conservatory faculty as visiting assistant professor of piano. In June of this year, he was a silver medal winner in the 11th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, held in Fort Worth, Texas. His program on Wednesday will feature Beethoven’s Piano Sonata, Op. 53, "Waldstein", Liszt’s Ballade No. 2 in B Minor, Lowell Liebermann’s Three Impromtus (a work commissioned by the 11th Van Cliburn Competition), and Rachmaninoff’s Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 36. Also winner of the 1999 Cleveland Competition, Pompa-Baldi has played extensively throughout the US and Europe, including performances in Milan, Naples, New York, Paris, and Cleveland. He has been featured as a soloist with the Orchestre National de Paris-Radio France, the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, the Ohio Chamber Orchestra, the Southwest Florida Symphony, the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, the Savannah Symphony Orchestra and the Spokane Symphony. He has served on the faculty of the Annamaria Pennella International Academy in L’Aquila, Italy and has recorded a CD of Brahms piano music on the Azica label.
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