Giuseppe Lupis, Piano October 2, 2010

Downtown Piano Works warmly welcomes back International Concert Pianist Giuseppe Lupis to our Fine Artist Concert Series, for an evening of works by (TBD) As always, there is no charge for admission but space is limited to 65. Please RSVP to
downtownpianoworks@yahoo.com, or call (301) 631-1234 to guarantee a seat for this performance.

Giuseppe Lupis is a pianist and a musician whose interests range from baroque music to contemporary styles and from jazz to his own arrangements of popular music.

Performance venues include among others Temple Square Concert Series, Salt Lake City, Utah; Serate Musicali, Verdi Conservatory Hall, Milan, Italy; Municipality Hall, Varna, Bulgaria; Guido Miranda Theatre, Resistencia, Argentina; Treze de Majo Theatre, Santa Maria, Brazil; Neuwied, Germany; Contemporary Music Society, Krakow, Poland; and Volyn State University, Lutsk, Ukraine. Giuseppe Lupis performed for the American Liszt Society Festival; the Peabody Award Banquet at the Governor’s Mansion in Atlanta, Georgia; and the ACDA convention at The Clay Center in West Virginia.

As soloist he has appeared with the Lviv, Latvian, and Bari Symphonies, the UGA Symphony and the Ascoli Chamber Orchestra. He has also performed with percussionist and composer Ney Rosauro, and his live DVD recording with guitar player Scotty Anderson was released in September 2008. His compact disc of George Gershwin solo works (Phoenix label, 2000) was declared “exceptional” by musicologist Alberto Cantù on Il Giornale (Milan, Italy).

Giuseppe Lupis served on the juries of the International Singing Competition “Citta’ di Alcamo”, and the Premio Massimo Urbani Jazz Competition of which he is former artistic director. Starting Fall 2009, Giuseppe Lupis has been appointed to the faculty at Grand Valley State University, where he serves as Assistant Professor of Piano/Artist Performer. Previous teaching positions include the Bari and Campobasso Italian state conservatories; the G.B Pergolesi Music Institute in Ancona, Italy; Wesleyan College, Georgia Southern University, Pittsburg State University, and Missouri Southern State University in the United States. As a pedagogue, Giuseppe Lupis has given masterclasses, including Valdosta State University; University of Southern Mississippi; Chopin Music Lyceum, Krakow, Poland; and Volyn State University, Lutsk, Ukraine, and has taught also at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, Michigan; The Ascoli Piceno Festival, Italy; and the Vale Veneto Festival, Brazil.

A former pupil of renowned concert pianist Aldo Ciccolini, Giuseppe Lupis holds a Doctorate in Musical Arts in piano performance at the University of Georgia, USA, under the tutelage of Richard Zimdars, and a Piano Performance degree earned with highest honors at the Bari Conservatory, Italy, under Pierluigi Camicia. In addition, Giuseppe Lupis studied with jazz pianist Enrico Pieranunzi, and at La Scala Theatre Academy in Milan. He is a recipient of the 2005 Franz Liszt Award and the 2003 Concerto Competition Award at the University of Georgia, and second prize winner of the 1989 Italian National Béla Bartók piano competition.