Maria Tipo

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Maria Tipo has recorded extensively. The first of recordind for Ricordi label, 12 Scarlatti Sonatas, was hailed by Newsweek as “the most spectacular record of the year”. Her recording of piano sonatas by Clementi for Fonit Cetra is now a collector’s item. In the lasts years Maria Tipo records exclusively for EMI. Her recording of J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations (BWV 988) ” and Eighten Scarlatti Sonatas have both won the Diapason d’Or. In addition to her career as a concert pianist, Maria Tipo is a dedicaded teacher. She was a professor at the Conservatories of Bolzano, Florence and Geneva, and has taught students from all over the world. She is frequently invited to judge major International Competitions. She holds the Cours de Perfectionnement et Virtuosité in Geneva and theaches masters-classes at the Gubbio Festival and at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole. Tipo was born in Naples. She was taught originally by her mother, Ersilia Cavallo, who was a pupil of Ferruccio Busoni, she went on to study under Alfredo Casella and Guido Agosti. At only seventeen, she won the Geneva international piano competition. Since then, she has performed widely and made a considerable number of recordings.