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The exceptional poetry of his performance turned each piece into a musical event.

The singing sound.

A true poet.

De Maria dazzled the audience with his infallible technique and his innate sense of phrasing in the 24 Etudes by Chopin.

A bit of heaven in dazzling piano debut.

His angelic smile alone ought to ensure him a big career on the concert stage. But Pietro De Maria also has a pair of heavensent hands.

Listeners stood to cheer his sweeping account of the Rachmaninoff Etudes Tableaux from Opus 39, and they were left gasping at the end of a dazzling rendition – with blazing left-hand octaves – of Liszt’ sixth Hungarian Rhapsody.

Italian pianist Pietro De Maria opened the evening with a sensational performance of Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No 3.

Remember the name De Maria. A wonderful artist… bursting with emotional sensitivity… and with the richest piano sound of all.

With his infallible technique and his perfect command of the keyboard, De Maria is one of the brightest stars in our pianistic firmament.