António Rosado / Portuguese Pianist

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António Rosado é um intérprete que domina o que faz. Tem tanto de emoção e de poesia, como de cor e de bom gosto. (in revista francesa Diapason)

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António Rosado tem uma carreira reconhecida nacional e internacionalmente, corolário do seu talento e do gosto pela diversidade, expressos num extenso repertório pianístico que integra obras de compositores tão diferentes como Georges Gershwin, Aaron Copland, Albéniz ou Liszt. Esta versatilidade permitiu-lhe apresentar, pela primeira vez em Portugal, destacadas obras como as Sonatas de Enescu ou paráfrases de Liszt, sendo o primeiro pianista português a realizar as integrais dos Prelúdios e também dos Estudos de Claude Debussy. No registo dos recitais pode incluir-se também a interpretação da integral das sonatas de Mozart.

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Actuou em palco, pela primeira vez, aos quatro anos de idade. Os estudos musicais iniciados com o pai tiveram continuidade no Conservatório Nacional de Música de Lisboa, onde terminou o curso Superior de Piano, com vinte valores. Aos dezasseis anos parte para Paris, e aí vem a ser discípulo de Aldo Ciccolini no Conservatório Superior de Música e nos cursos de aperfeiçoamento em Siena e Biella (Itália).

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Em 1980, estreou-se em concerto com a Orchestre National de Toulouse, sob a direcção de Michel Plasson e desde essa data tem tocado com inúmeras orquestras internacionais e notáveis maestros como: Georg Alexander Albrecht, Moshe Atzmon, Franco Caracciolo, Pierre Dervaux, Arthur Fagen, Léon Fleischer, Silva Pereira, Claudio Scimone, David Stahl, Marc Tardue e Ronald Zollman.
Também na música de câmara tem actuado com prestigiados músicos como Aldo Ciccolini, Maurice Gendron, Margarita Zimermann, Gerardo Ribeiro ou Paulo Gaio Lima, com o qual apresentou a integral da obra de Beethoven para violoncelo e piano.

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Laureado pela Academia Internacional Maurice Ravel e pela Academia Internacional Perosi, António Rosado foi distinguido pelo Concurso Internacional Vianna da Motta e pelo Concurso Internacional Alfredo Casella de Nápoles. Estes prémios constituem o reconhecimento internacional do seu virtuosismo e o impulso para uma brilhante carreira, com a realização de recitais e concertos por todo o Mundo, e a participação em diversos festivais. Na década de 90, foi o pianista escolhido pela TF1 para a gravação e transmissão de três programas – música espanhola e portuguesa, Liszt e, por fim, um recital preenchido com Beethoven, Prokofiev, Wagner-Liszt. Em 2007, a França nomeou-o Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.

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The Portuguese pianist was born in Evora and began studying music with his father when he was three years of age. Later he went to the Conservatório Nacional de Lisboa , where he finished his piano studies attaining the highest classification.

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At 16, he went to Paris to perfect his studies with a scholarship given by the French Government, the Gulbenkian Foundation and the Secretaria de Estado da Cultura (Portuguese Department of Culture). In Paris, he met Aldo Ciccolini later becoming his student in the Academia in Sienna. He also participated in Aldo Ciccolini’s Masterclasses in Sienna and in the Accademia, Biella, Italy. A few years later, Ciccolini said of António Rosado that he “ has got what neither education nor practice can give: the sense of the keyboard”.

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He won awards at the Maurice Ravel International Academy and at the Vianna da Motta International Competition. In 1986, he received the G.Pella Award of the International Academy Perosi, Italy. In 1987, Rosado came joint-first at the Alfredo Casella International Competition in Naples. These awards were recognition of his extraordinary talent and the start of a brilliant international career.
Rosado has played in recitals and concerts all over Europe, Canada, Brazil and Mexico and at several music festivals, most notably the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Italy; Festival Cervantino in Mexico; Europalia in Brussels; Festivals in Sintra and Costa do Estoril, Portugal; and on the Basque Coast, France.

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In 1990, António Rosado opened the Festival Pianistico in Naples, dedicated to Mozart, where he played Mozart’s Concert K.415 with the Orquestra Scarlatti for RAI. He has been a guest on several TV and Radio stations in different countries and with TF1 he recorded three programmes, the first dedicated to Iberian Music, the second to Liszt and thirdly a recital where he interpreted Beethoven, Prokofiev, Wagner and Liszt.

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He is a founder member of Trio Artis and has played together with Maurice Gendron, Margarita Zimermann, Aldo Ciccolini and Artur Pizarro. He has also played with well-known conductors such as Pierre Dervaux, Silva Pereira, Franco Caracciolo, Michel Plasson, Léon Fleischer, Arthur Fagen, Claudio Scimone, Ivo Cruz, Álvaro Cassuto, Georg Alexander Albrecht, Moshe Atzmon and Ronald Zollman. In 2007, France named him Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.

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His discography includes recordings made in France, of two piano sonatas by Georges Enescu, and a second devoted to the music of Vianna da Motta. In 1995, for Emi-Classics, Rosado recorded Franz Liszt – celebrating the 150th anniversary Liszt’s visit to Lisbon. In his fourth CD, launched by BMG Classics, António Rosado plays “Fantasie in C-Major, Opus 17” by Schumann and “ Sonata in B-Minor” by Liszt. In Hamburg, Germany, also for BMG, he recorded the “Concert nº 2” and a “Rhapsody on a Paganini Theme” by Rachmaninov with the NDR Sinfonieorchestra, conducted by David Stahl.

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Recently, he recorded both Brahms concertos with the Orchestra National of Oporto. In 2004 recorded the complete piano sonatas of Fernando Lopes Graça, in 2006 the eight suites “Bela Bartok In Memoriam” by the same composer and most recently the Preludes by Armando José Fernandes and Luís de Freitas Branco.
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