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Phone: 212-860-5541 * Fax: 917-677-8247
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Price: $125.00 |
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Entirely scarce autographed and inscribed Organizzazione Internazionale Concerti, Milano tri-fold brochure discussing the superb reviews following the child prodigy’s concert with orchestra at the Teatro Nuovo di Milano, 30 April, 1955. Bernasconi leapt to the forefront of the concert pianist circuit for 7 years, from the age of 11 to 18. Bernasconi was Neapolitan by birth, graduating from Accademia Belle Arti in 1965. 1955 was her coming out in Milan. She made her first concert with orchestra appearance in her home town at the Teatro San Carlo in July 1956, with Sir John Barbirolli conducting and during the same year a concert at the Teatro Fenice in Venice. Bernasconi also made a concert appearance with the Concerts Pasdeloup in Paris playing the Mendelssohn 2nd Piano Concerto the same year. In the years that followed, she had several successful tours of the United States championed by Barbirolli, Reiner and most of all Leopold Stokowski, who made a special trip to Naples to meet with her family and hire her for his Houston Symphony Concerts in 1959. We have read numerous reviews of the period raving about her technique and understanding of the music she played. While we have seen her photograph featured in many music catalogs of the period, such as the “Musical Courier” and “Musical America,” as well as glorious newspaper reviews, this is the first autograph we have seen offered on the open market. |
FRANCESCA “KIKI” BERNASCONI - PIANIST |
