Classical Music Discoveries Artist Highlight: Giuseppe Devastato

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Dec 03, 2009 Artist Highlight: Giuseppe Devastato

This week we are very proud to highlight classical pianist Giuseppe Devastato from Italy.

Giuseppe Devastato studied piano with Carlo Alessandro Lepegna. In 2002 Giuseppe earned his diploma from the Conservatory of Music Domenico Cimarosa, winning the Mazotta Prize.

He is often invited to be a jury member in national and European piano competitions and has performed as a soloist and in chamber music groups at music festivals such as the "Igor Stravinsky" competition, Theater La Porta, International Festival of Ravello, Summer Concerts at Villa guariglia, Sala Scarlatti and many others.

He has also performed with many orchestras including the Orchestra de Estado de Mexico, Venus Chamber Orchestra of Sofia and the Romanian Philharmonic.

Giuseppe is also the founder of the "V. Vitale Music Festival and organizes important musical and cultural events. He has also been appointed the Artistic Advisor of the Neapolitan Music Society.

He also writes film music for Warner Chappel Music, CamSounTracks, ClassicaViva, RaiTrade and ShevaCollection.

You can purchase Giuseppe's CDs at: www.classicaviva.com and also at www.logomusicproduction.com

Also, we want to thank Giuseppe for always being one of the very first to contribute music to our podcasts, whenever we are a bit short on music or need music for special occassions like our Halloween Podcast and other needs. Giuseppe is a very valuable part of our podcast family and we appreciate him very much.

This week, we will feature several selections performed by Giuseppe and I will announce each one for you.

Also be sure to stick around as at the end of the podcast, we will have a special encore performance by composer Steve Horowitz who was featuring during our annual Halloween Podcast.