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Mattia
Ometto

Concert pianist, recording artist, and Piano Professor at the Conservatorio “B. Marcello,” Venice.

Mattia Ometto, ritratto

Biography

"Mattia Ometto è un pianista con una sensibilità meravigliosa, uno di quegli artisti che hanno il dovere di far capire al pubblico cosa significhi avere talento." — Aldo Ciccolini, pianista (Parigi)

Dopo il debutto nel 2008 al Théâtre du Rond Point des Champs-Élysées di Parigi e alla Carnegie Hall di New York, Mattia Ometto inizia a esibirsi regolarmente in Europa e negli Stati Uniti, dove è apparso ripetutamente a Los Angeles con la Lyric Symphony Orchestra, a New York (Carnegie Hall e Bargemusic), a Boston (Rivera Hall), a Des Moines (Sheslow Auditorium), a Redlands (Watchorn Hall), e ancora a Claremont, Chicago, New Jersey, a Berlino, Cracovia (Krakow Philharmonic), ad Ankara con la Academic Başkent Orkestra, in Bulgaria con la Vidin State Philharmonic Orchestra, in Italia con l'Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, collaborando con direttori quali Luigi Piovano, Maurizio Dini Ciacci, Viorel Gheorghe, Charles Gambetta ed Ertuğ Korkmaz.

Sin da giovanissimo compare nelle stagioni concertistiche delle principali città italiane, fra le quali Venezia (Gran Teatro La Fenice), Milano (Sala Verdi, Serate Musicali, La Società dei Concerti), Roma (Accademia di Romania), Napoli, Torino, Trieste, Udine, Rimini (Festival Pianistico Internazionale), Stresa, Padova (Amici della Musica, Festival Cristofori), Vicenza (Società del Quartetto).

Riconosciuto come uno specialista della letteratura per due pianoforti, la sua discografia per Brilliant Classics comprende l'integrale della musica per due pianoforti di Franz Liszt (con Leslie Howard) e l'incisione dal vivo del Concerto per due pianoforti e orchestra di Poulenc, con Leonora Armellini e l'Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto diretta da Luigi Piovano. Sempre con Leonora Armellini ha inciso l'integrale della musica per due pianoforti di Johannes Brahms (Da Vinci Classics), mentre in duo con Leslie Howard ha registrato l'integrale del repertorio per duo pianistico di Reynaldo Hahn (Melba Recordings).

La recente pubblicazione di un doppio CD solistico dedicato alle Forgotten Melodies di Nikolai Medtner (Piano Classics, 2022) ha ottenuto 5 stelle dalla rivista specializzata FonoForum ed è stata salutata come "un prezioso contributo" (G. P. Minardi, Gazzetta di Parma) e "un ascolto prezioso e necessario" (E. Bergamaschi, OperaTeatro). La critica francese ha scritto: "Mattia Ometto est aussi impressionnant par sa virtuosité raffinée, mais non ostentatoire, que par sa profonde musicalité" (Click Musique).

Allievo di Aldo Ciccolini a Parigi ed Earl Wild a Palm Springs, Mattia Ometto si è diplomato col massimo dei voti e la lode al Conservatorio "B. Marcello" di Venezia, conseguendo successivamente il Diploma Accademico di Secondo Livello in Pianoforte Storico con lode e menzione d'onore presso il Conservatorio di Vicenza.

È regolarmente invitato a tenere masterclass come visiting artist in Europa e negli Stati Uniti, ed è stato docente titolare nel programma Mastering Concertos, dedicato al repertorio per pianoforte e orchestra, tenutosi annualmente a Vidin (Bulgaria) dal 2016 al 2020.

Mattia Ometto è docente di Pianoforte presso il Conservatorio "B. Marcello" di Venezia.

The winner of a vast array of awards both in Europe and the United States, Ometto quickly established himself as an artist whose gifts hark back to the Golden Age of classical piano performance — an artistry shaped in equal parts by his Venetian background, his studies in Paris with the legendary Aldo Ciccolini, and in Palm Springs with the American virtuoso Earl Wild.

Ometto performs regularly in Europe and the United States. Following his recital debut in Paris at the Théâtre du Rond-Point des Champs-Élysées and in New York at Carnegie Hall, he has appeared both in recital and as soloist with orchestra in New York (Carnegie Hall, Bargemusic), Boston (Bradley Hall), Des Moines (Sheslow Auditorium), Redlands (Watchorn Hall), and further in Claremont, Chicago, New Jersey, Venice (Gran Teatro La Fenice), Milan (Sala Verdi), Berlin, and Kraków (Kraków Philharmonic) — as soloist with the Lyric Symphony Orchestra in Los Angeles, the Academic Başkent Orchestra in Ankara, the Vidin State Philharmonic Orchestra in Bulgaria, and the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto in Italy, working with conductors such as Luigi Piovano, Maurizio Dini Ciacci, Viorel Gheorghe, Charles Gambetta and Ertuğ Korkmaz.

From a very young age he has also appeared in the concert seasons of Italy's major cities, including Milan (Serate Musicali, La Società dei Concerti), Rome (Accademia di Romania), Naples, Turin, Trieste, Udine, Rimini (Festival Pianistico Internazionale), Stresa, Padua (Amici della Musica, Festival Cristofori), and Vicenza (Società del Quartetto).

Widely respected as a specialist in the two-piano repertoire, his discography comprises the critically acclaimed complete music for two pianos by Franz Liszt (Brilliant Classics) with the legendary pianist and Liszt scholar Leslie Howard, Poulenc's Concerto for two pianos and orchestra (with Leonora Armellini, the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto and conductor Luigi Piovano — Brilliant Classics), the complete two-piano music of Johannes Brahms, again with Leonora Armellini (Da Vinci Classics), and the world premiere recording of the complete works for two pianos and piano four hands by Reynaldo Hahn, with Leslie Howard (Melba Recordings).

Ometto's upcoming solo release is a double CD devoted to the complete Skazki (Fairy Tales) by Nikolai Medtner, building on his earlier album of the composer's complete Forgotten Melodies (Piano Classics, 2022), which received five stars from the magazine FonoForum and was praised as "a precious contribution" (G. P. Minardi, Gazzetta di Parma) and "a precious and necessary survey" (E. Bergamaschi, OperaTeatro). French critics wrote: "Mattia Ometto is as impressive for his refined, but not ostentatious, virtuosity as he is for his profound musicality that highlights Medtner's complex and characteristic language" (Click Musique).

Born in Padua in 1982, Ometto graduated in Piano Performance summa cum laude from the Venice Conservatory of Music, and later earned a Master's Degree in Historical Piano Performance with the highest marks, honors and honorable mention from the Conservatory of Vicenza. Very active also as a teacher, he is regularly invited to give masterclasses as a visiting artist in Europe and the United States, and served as resident faculty for the Mastering Concertos program, dedicated to the piano-and-orchestra repertoire, held annually in Vidin, Bulgaria, from 2016 to 2020.

Currently residing in Italy, Ometto is Piano Professor at the Conservatorio "B. Marcello" in Venice.

Mattia Ometto in concerto alla Carnegie Hall di New York
Carnegie Hall, New York
Selected recordings

Discography

Liszt: Music for 2 Pianos
2026 — out in November
Liszt: Music for 2 Pianos
Leslie Howard & Mattia Ometto, two pianos
Brilliant Classics · BC97742 · 2CD
Liszt: Faust Symphony, Dante Symphony, Beethoven Symphony No. 9
2024
Liszt: Faust Symphony, Dante Symphony, Beethoven Symphony No. 9
Leslie Howard & Mattia Ometto, two pianos
Brilliant Classics · BC95749 · 3CD
Explorer Set: Slavic Edition
2023
Explorer Set: Slavic Edition
V. Maltempo, M. Viner, P. Gintov, S. Giorgini, M. Ometto, T. Borsboom, D. Tchesnokov, E. Litvintseva, N. Karoyan
Piano Classics · PCL10281 · 10CD
Medtner: Forgotten Melodies
2022
Medtner: Forgotten Melodies / Vergessene Weisen
Mattia Ometto, piano
Piano Classics · PCL10223 · 2CD
Poulenc, Britten, Debussy
2020
Poulenc, Britten, Debussy — music for two pianos & orchestra, piano four hands
Leonora Armellini & Mattia Ometto, pianos — Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Luigi Piovano
Brilliant Classics · BC96163
Brahms: Complete Music for Two Pianos
2018
Johannes Brahms: Complete Music for Two Pianos
Leonora Armellini & Mattia Ometto, pianos
Da Vinci Classics · C00138
Liszt: Twelve Symphonic Poems
2018
Liszt: Twelve Symphonic Poems
Leslie Howard & Mattia Ometto, two pianos
Brilliant Classics · BC95784 · 3CD
Belle Époque — Reynaldo Hahn
2017
Belle Époque — Reynaldo Hahn, complete works for two pianos & piano duet
Leslie Howard & Mattia Ometto, pianos
Melba Recordings · MR301148-49 · 2CD
Duparc: Lamento — Complete Songs
2015
Duparc: Lamento — Complete Songs
Andrea Mastroni, bass — Mattia Ometto, piano
Brilliant Classics · BC95299
Franck: Mélodies
2013
Franck: Mélodies
Francesca Scaini, soprano — Mattia Ometto, piano
Brilliant Classics · BC94457
Chamber music

Duo Pianistico di Padova

Leonora Armellini e Mattia Ometto, Duo Pianistico di Padova
Photo courtesy of Leonardo Semenzato

Leonora Armellini & Mattia Ometto

Piano duo, active since 2017

Widely regarded as one of the foremost piano duos in Italy, for a decade Leonora Armellini and Mattia Ometto have graced renowned concert halls across the globe with their performances, and have garnered acclaim for their recordings.

"Exquisite phrasing and impeccable technique." — Gramophone Magazine

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Piano faculty

Teaching

"Teaching has always been an important part of my life as a musician. It's where I meet music at the peak of its artisanal dimension, and while I truly consider my studio as an industrious workshop, I never cease to urge my students to find their own voice and become the artists they've always wanted to be." — Mattia Ometto
Piano Nobile del Conservatorio B. Marcello di Venezia

Mattia Ometto is Piano Professor at

Conservatorio di Musica "B. Marcello"

Sestiere di San Marco 2810
30124 Venezia (Italy)

Tel. (+39) 041 5225604

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