Costantino Mastroprimiano

Costantino Mastroprimiano

Is a musician whose activity as piano and pianoforte player focuses on the results of his research work. He graduated from the Conservatorio di Musica di Foggia and graduated with honours from the Accademia Chigiana di Siena as specialist in Piano (1984) and in Chamber Music (1985). He studied as well the main keyboard treatises and focused his musicological interests on the rediscovery and the revaluation of 19th century Italian instrumental music. His repertoire includes the most important authors of Piano literature as well as musics by composers such as Hummel, Eberl, Pollini, Clementi, Dussek, Moscheles, Cramer, Czerny, Kalkbrenner, Ries and Mueller. He rediscovered and performed in concert Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven’s concertos and symphonies transcriptions by Hummel, Moscheles, Ries, Czerny, Cramer and Clementi. He has also been editor of Muzio Clementi’s complete works publication for the publisher Ut-Orpheus in Bologna, where he still is a committee member. As soloist and chamber player, he performed in the main Italian cities as well as in France, Austria (Vienna, at the Musikverein – Brahms Saal within the Chamber Concert Season of the Wiener Symphoniker 2000), Bulgaria, Slovenia, Germany and Belgium, where he also recorded his performances for several national radio stations (Radiotre – RAI , Ars – Slovenia’s National Radio, etc). He performed in concert Mozart’s complete chamber music works on piano (1991). On pianoforte in 1996 he performer, for the first time ever, J.S. Bach’s Goldberg-Variationen and the 14 canons Bwv 1089. He is a founder member of the Concert sans Orchestre ensemble with Fiorella Andriani (flute), Liana Mosca(vl), Fabio Ravasi (violin), Luca Giardini (violin) and Marco Testori (cello), which is interested above all in chamber music repertoire and composers’ transcriptions on original instruments and that has been invited by the main Italian Ancient Music Festivals.

In 2009 he founded the Forthepiano Trio with Nicholas Robinson (violin) and Marco Testori (.cello), playing original instruments. The trio is planning to record some of Ignaz Pleyel’s Trio compositions (Brilliant Classics)

He teaches Chamber Music at the Conservatorio di Musica di Perugia.

With Tactus Records he recorded a cd dedicated to Francesco Giuseppe Pollini’s pianoforte compositions ( 4 stars in “Musica” issues of April 2007 and September 2007, Piano News in Germany, Fanfare in USA).

Since 2006 he has been realizing for Brilliant Classics the world’s first-ever recording on pianoforte of the complete edition (18 cds) of Muzio Clementi’s sonatas, whose first 3 cd cases have  already been published (each of them includes 3 cds dedicated to Vienna Sonatas, Early Sonatas and London Sonatas) and welcomed by Record Critics in Italy (5 stars in ”Musica” issues 2007, 2009 and 2010,  “Classic Voice”, “Suono”) as well as abroad (Le Monde de La Musique in France, Fanfare in USA, ABC and Scherzo in Spain, Ruch Muzyczny in Poland etc.).

A cd is planned to be published in 2010 for Chopin bicentenary, which will include Chopin’s early compositions performed on pianoforte.

In 2010 he is going to begin - for Brilliant Classics – the recording of Johann Nepomuk Hummel’s complete Sonatas.