Eugenio Catone is esteemed in the international scenario of concert music for his highly-defined artistic personality and the expressive power of his interpretations. Gifted with “a surprising ability to identify integrally with the composer’s soul” (Il Tempo) and with “an exuberant technique which supports his musical intelligence, as polished as an ancient Toledo sword” (Corriere del Mezzogiorno), he is the very essence of the inquisitive, eclectic musician adept in a variety of musical forms: chamber music, composition, orchestral conducting, teaching.
After receiving unanimous approval at the Pozzoli Piano Competition in Seregno (Premio Biella) and the Speranza Piano Competition in Taranto (Premio Albano), he obtained his first important international recognition when he won first prize at the 8th Hastings Piano Concerto Competition. A few years later, he was awarded the Grand Prix at the Rosario Marciano Piano Competition in Vienna and the first prize at the slovenian Chopin Golden Ring Competition on historical instruments. Since then he has performed in prestigious Festivals in Italy and in Europe (Ravello Festival, Wiener Klavierfest, Farfield Halls, Accademia Filarmonica Romana), presenting programmes that feature repertoires of the early Romantic period and the 20th Century.
His performances have been broadcasted by radio stations (Radio Vaticana, Radio Slovenija 3, Rai Radio 3) and his CD “Temi & Variazioni” was selected by Piero Rattalino for the “New Careers 2010” award promoted by the Italian national music committee in Rome. Eugenio Catone is currently engaged in a challenging project, i.e. recording the complete piano works of Dmítri Shostakovich (Stradivarius), which he presents in monothematic recitals and lectures.
A passionate performer of chamber music, he took the advice of Bruno Canino, Alain Meunier, Evgeny Sinaiski and chose to play on a steady basis in Duo with saxophonist Domenico Luciano (Duo Agorà) and with the German cellist Emily Wittbrodt. Eugenio Catone believes strongly in dissemination and education for the general public and since 2017 he has been the artistic director of the Festival “Incontri Musicali al Castello dei Conti” in Ceccano, a festival which he also founded. Among the teaching projects he promotes in order to draw the very young to contemporary music, his Adrian, for a young orchestra and reciting voice, sparked significant interest and was, in fact, awarded at the international competition Music for Young Musicians in Pescara; it is scheduled to be published shortly by Nuova Gutemberg.
Eugenio Catone studied music under the guidance of the renowned teacher Annamaria Pennella, a pupil of Marguerite Long and Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, and furthered his artistic development at the Conservatories of Salerno, Amsterdam and Essen, with Gabriella Olino, Matthijs Verschoor and Henri Sigfridsson. Sonja Pahor, Paul Badura-Skoda, Frank Wibaut also contributed to his training. He obtained the Konzertexamen diploma at the Folkwang Universität der Künste while completing his studies as conductor at the Civica Scuola di Musica Claudio Abbado in Milan. He is appointed Piano Professor at the Conservatory of Trapani.
Biography
Eugenio Catone is esteemed in the international scenario of concert music for his highly-defined artistic personality and the expressive power of his interpretations. Gifted with “a surprising ability to identify integrally with the composer’s soul” (Il Tempo) and with “an exuberant technique which supports his musical intelligence, as polished as an ancient Toledo sword” (Corriere del Mezzogiorno), he is the very essence of the inquisitive, eclectic musician adept in a variety of musical forms: chamber music, composition, orchestral conducting, teaching.
After receiving unanimous approval at the Pozzoli Piano Competition in Seregno (Premio Biella) and the Speranza Piano Competition in Taranto (Premio Albano), he obtained his first important international recognition when he won first prize at the 8th Hastings Piano Concerto Competition. A few years later, he was awarded the Grand Prix at the Rosario Marciano Piano Competition in Vienna and the first prize at the slovenian Chopin Golden Ring Competition on historical instruments. Since then he has performed in prestigious Festivals in Italy and in Europe (Ravello Festival, Wiener Klavierfest, Farfield Halls, Accademia Filarmonica Romana), presenting programmes that feature repertoires of the early Romantic period and the 20th Century.
His performances have been broadcasted by radio stations (Radio Vaticana, Radio Slovenija 3, Rai Radio 3) and his CD “Temi & Variazioni” was selected by Piero Rattalino for the “New Careers 2010” award promoted by the Italian national music committee in Rome. Eugenio Catone is currently engaged in a challenging project, i.e. recording the complete piano works of Dmítri Shostakovich (Stradivarius), which he presents in monothematic recitals and lectures.
A passionate performer of chamber music, he took the advice of Bruno Canino, Alain Meunier, Evgeny Sinaiski and chose to play on a steady basis in Duo with saxophonist Domenico Luciano (Duo Agorà) and with the German cellist Emily Wittbrodt. Eugenio Catone believes strongly in dissemination and education for the general public and since 2017 he has been the artistic director of the Festival “Incontri Musicali al Castello dei Conti” in Ceccano, a festival which he also founded. Among the teaching projects he promotes in order to draw the very young to contemporary music, his Adrian, for a young orchestra and reciting voice, sparked significant interest and was, in fact, awarded at the international competition Music for Young Musicians in Pescara; it is scheduled to be published shortly by Nuova Gutemberg.
Eugenio Catone studied music under the guidance of the renowned teacher Annamaria Pennella, a pupil of Marguerite Long and Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, and furthered his artistic development at the Conservatories of Salerno, Amsterdam and Essen, with Gabriella Olino, Matthijs Verschoor and Henri Sigfridsson. Sonja Pahor, Paul Badura-Skoda, Frank Wibaut also contributed to his training. He obtained the Konzertexamen diploma at the Folkwang Universität der Künste while completing his studies as conductor at the Civica Scuola di Musica Claudio Abbado in Milan. He is appointed Piano Professor at the Conservatory of Trapani.
