Vito Reibaldi

Born at Canosa in Apulia, Reibaldi attained in only six years and with full marks the Diploma in Piano under the guidance of Maestro Camillo Baccigalupi in the Conservatory "U. Giordano" in Foggia. He then perfected in Naples with Maestro Vincenzo Vitale, in Salzburg with Maestro Carlo Zecchi in the prestigious "Mozarteum", and in Florence with Argentinian Daniel Rivera. He has always been well received amongst the public, and has obtained the approval of critics in specialised press. He has won competitions and festivals both as a soloist and as an accompanist. His artistic mastery enables him to treat with ability and competence classical music and jazz alike. He is the inventor of an interactive system that makes it possible for the soloist, aided by a computer and m.i.d.i. equipment, to perform a variety of concerts for soloist and orchestra in a flexibility of agogic and dynamics produced by interpretative emotionality. In April 1998 he was awarded "The individual prize" as the best pianist at the "XVI International Spring Festival" of Pyongyang (North Korea), where he represented Italy in seven live television filmings he made, both as a soloist and as an accompanist, for the state broadcasting channel. The winner with full marks of a public competition for the teaching in Conservatories, Reibaldi is a Regular Professor and holds the chair of Complementary Piano at the Conservatory “N. Piccinni” in Bari. Since 2005 he has been teaching "Musical Computer Science" in the curriculum of the two-year Master’s level. Personally, I regard Nikolai Kapustin as being among the most genial innovators of contemporary musical language following the great Russian tradition of music for piano: a true point of reference for future generations of musicians. December 2007 - Vito Reibaldi