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Rosa Antonelli is enjoying an active and varied performance career. Her artistic insight and flawless technique are combined to create an impressive musical vision. She has been hailed by critics as a leading exponent of Spanish and Latin American music. In 1986 she was awarded the Rosa Sabater Price from the Spanish Government, for the best interpretation of Spanish music. She has premiered the works of Latina American composers such as Piazzola, Ugarte, Gianneo among others, and has introduced the Piano Concert op. 20 by Scriabin to audiences throughout the Americas.

Rosa Antonelli has made extensive tours in Europe, Asia, Latin America and the United States performing in countries including: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Spain, Israel, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Holland and Italy, Czeck Republic, Israel, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, China and Mexico. After her initial tour of Europe in 1987, she toured twenty countries afterwards in 1990, reestablishing her presence in Europe, Asia and Africa.

Her most recent New York area performances were at Lincoln Center, the Latin American Festival at Queens Theater in the Park, Steinway Hall (1988), The United Nations, Hofstra University Queens College, The Harvard Club (1999) and Carnegie Hall. Many of Ms. Antonelli's concerts have been broadcast internationally.

In 1999 Ms. Antonelli performed at the “Millennium Tree of Nations”, a fund raiser gala to support the United Nation’s Women’s Guild Children’s Fund in benefit of need children in New York City and the world.

Ms. Antonelli has been sponsored by government organizations such as the Office of the President, the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In addition, she has been sponsored by cultural organizations including The Chopin Society (Poland), Italo-IberoAmerican Institute (Italy), Yehudi Menuhin’s Live Music Now, The Alex Vries Foundation (Belgium) and The Rubin Academy of Music (Israel). Ms. Antonelli also participated in the musician's contest organized by this academy, where she was unanimously chose for the first prize.

In 1994 she was appointed - again unanimously - by public vote as Titula Professor of the National University of Buenos Aires's Piano Department.

Ms. Antonelli has performed at such renowned music centers such as: The Palazzo Visconti in Milan, The Opera Theatre in Cairo, The Augustinum Theater in Bonn, The Atheneo Theater in Madrid, The Glinka Museum in Moscow, The Cristofori Hall in Amsterdam, The Maria Callas Concert Hall in Tel Aviv.

A disciple of Roberto Caamano, Rosa Antonelli has studied with Masters of the Piano including Daisy de Luca, a student of Magda Tagliaferro, Rosalyn Tureck and Rafael Puyanas. She also earned a Masters Degree of Superior Professor of Music with Honors (specialty field: Piano), from the National Conservatory of Buenos Aires, where she performed at the foremost artistic and cultural centers including the Colon Theater, the General San Martin Theater, the Cultural Center City of Buenos Aires, the Ricardo Rojas Museum, the Rosario Circle Theater, the Mar de Plata Auditorium and the San Carlos Bariloche City Hall.

Awards and Honors
Other awards and honors include: the Grand Prize for performance given to Ms. Antonelli at the International Piano Seminar in Rio de Janeiro; special scholarship from the Leonor Hirsh de Von Bush Foundation, and the place of Guest of Honor at the course offered by Professor Alfonso Montecito, a disciple of Claudio Arrau, in 1985 and 1986.

In addition to holding lectures and seminars on Piano Technique and Interpretation in the USA; as well as various European and Latin American countries, Ms. Antonelli taught at the Alberto Ginastera's Provincial Conservatory of Music in Buenos Aires, where she acted a chairwoman of the Piano Department for 10 years.

Following her service as Professor of PIano at the National University of Buenos Aires's Schools of Arts, Ms. Antonelli came to the USA, where she was appointed Professor of Piano at Adelphi University. She served in this capacity for a period of four years.

Ms. Antonelli is also a member of the college of Music Society and has been on the distinguished Steinway Roster since 1998.

Organization Location Activity
Chopin Academy of Warsaw
Ostrowski Palace
Piano Concert in Poland
Glinka Museum of Moscow
Concert Hall
Piano Recital
Modelowe Centrum Upwszechniania Kultury Muzycnes Spam Rybna of Katowice
Poland
Piano Recital
Katowice
Poland
Piano Recital
Tourism and Spectale Ministry
French Institute of Naples
Musical Association Francesco Florimo
Naples, Italy
Piano Recital
Culture Ministry - National Centre of Culture
El Cairo Opera House
Piano Recital
Instututo Italo-IberoAmerican
Rome, Italy
Alex de Vries Foundation
Piano Recital
Radio Television Belgrade
Belgrade, Yugoslav
Nationwide Transmission
Romanian Radio-Television
Bucharest, Romania
Piano Recital
Casa de Espana
Utrecht, Holland
Piano Recital
Int'l. Art Centre "Athenaeum:
Athens Greece
Pro-Arte
Int'l Center for Arts Literature & Science - Brazil
Piano Recital
Casa Cultural Otero Reiche
Santa Cruz de la Sierra - Bolivia
Piano Recital
Corporacion Cultural Andres Sabella
Chile
Piano Recital
University of Colombia
Colombia - Auditorium Leon de Greiff with the National Orchestra of Colombia. Concert for Piano and Orchestra
National University of San Juan - Secretary of Culture of the Nation Concert for Piano and Orchestra with the Symphonic Orchestra of San Juan Auditorium j. Victoria - University of San Juan.
Friends of the National Hal Secretary of Cultural Estate Buenos Aires, Argentina. Piano Recital
Auditorium Enrique Muino Direccion del Centro Cultural San Martin - Municipalidad de Buenos Aires Secretary of Culture - Buenos Aires Argentina (1983-84'85'-1989) Piano Recital
Center of Former Professors Conservatory of Music Carlos Lopez Buchardo -
Buenos Aires Argentina)
1971-72
Piano Recital
Faculty of Law and Social Sciences University of Buenos Aires
"Hacia la Musica" Concert 1980
Chamber of Music
San Carlos de Bariloche "Hacia la Musica", 1980 Chamber of Music
Cultural Extention University of Santiago de Compostela. "Hostal de los Reyes Catolicos"
Spain, 1986
Concert.
National Broadcast
University of Tel Aviv Hall Fastlicht of the University of Tel Aviv, 1990 Piano Recital
Colon Theatre Buenos Aires, Argentina  
Harvard Club New York  
Monroe Lecture Center Teather    
Concert for Piano and Orchestra Conductor Mastukiego, Poland Concert for Piano and Orchestra
Lincoln Center New York City  
Steinway Hall New York City, 1998  
The United Nations    
The Harvard Club New York City, 1999  
Carnegie Hall New York City  
Augustinum Theatre Bohn, Germany  
Boessendorfer Hall Vienna  
General San Martin Theatre Buenos Aires, Argentina  
Palazzo Visconti Milan, Italy  
Atheneo Theatre Madrid, Spain  
Cristofori Hall Amsterdam, Holland  

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