FANFARE MAGAZINEIssue May/June 2026 A STORY OF ROMANCE AND RESILIENCE: A CONVERSATION WITH ROSA ANTONELLI BY ROBERT SCHULSLAPER I first met pianist Rosa Antonelli in 2010 for the first of a series of subsequent interviews, so it’s my great pleasure to once again encounter her warmly communicative personality that so suffuses her playing, to the…
BRIDGES FROM CHOPIN TO PIAZZOLLA Audio CD ALBANY Buy Now from Amazon.com Buy Now from ArkivMusic Buy Now from iTunes In Bridges, a new CD on the Albany label, pianist Rosa Antonelli traces a direct lineage from the great 19th-century pianist and composer, Frédéric Chopin, to the 20th century bandoneón virtuoso and father of the…
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Interview with the talented pianist, whose family is from Molise, based in NYC, that will celebrate April 25th with us performing “Libertango” by Piazzolla Round Tripby Liliana Rosano Apr 24 2019 Leggi in italiano “The Italian blood still flows through my veins, even though I grew up in Argentina. My family was among the many…
Rosa Antonelli has been playing the piano since she was three-and-a-half years old. The child of Italian immigrants who left their homeland after World War II, Antonelli grew up in Argentina, where she heard the music of popular tangos, the opera music her mother sang, and the sounds of Buenos Aires, a town steeped in…
Excerpts from the review by Colin Clarke at FANFARE MAGAZINE “Not to be missed”. “Antonelli is clearly preternaturally attuned to the music of these territories, finding the smoldering heart .” ” …music to altogether different pastures, more stern, more rarified. Here, Antonelli is superb, finding an organ-like sonority from her piano.” ” The famous Libertango is…
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Rosa Antonelli, the renowned pianist from Argentina By Rebeca Herrero She has an innocent smile, and delicate yet powerful hands which have created some of the most poetic and inspiring classical music at Carnegie Hall. Rosa Antonelli, a descendant of Italian nobility, whose family moved at a young age to Argentina, reminisced about her youth. …
