Antonio Pompa-Baldi

Antonio Pompa-Baldi (born December 1, 1974) is an Italian-American pianist. The first prize winner in the 1999 Cleveland International Piano Competition and silver medalist of the 2001 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Pompa-Baldi has been noted by The New York Times for his "meltingly beautiful" playing. He was also a prizewinner of the 1998 Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition. Pompa-Baldi performs internationally as a recitalist, chamber musician, and concerto soloist under such conductors as Hans Graf, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Theodore Kuchar and Krzysztof Urbański. Pompa-Baldi currently serves as distinguished profesor of piano and head of the piano department at the Cleveland Institute of Music.