Caroline Almonte PIANIST (AUS) 卡罗兰·艾尔芒娣 钢琴家（澳洲）

出生于墨尔本的钢琴家卡罗兰 艾尔芒娣，自幼就以她的敏慧和多才多艺著称。她曾经多次获奖，包括澳大利亚ABC电台的全澳青年演奏家大奖、意大利国际室内乐比赛第一名。

卡罗兰·艾尔芒娣曾在维多利亚艺术学院和斯蒂文·迈肯泰学习钢琴，之后在纽约茱丽亚音乐学院向雅布朗斯卡婭完成了钢琴演奏课程。卡罗兰·艾尔芒娣被委任在澳大利亚ABC广播公司做了大量的录音和节目制作，她也在墨尔本大学音乐学院执教。

卡罗兰·艾尔芒娣多年来在欧洲各地、美国、中国、日本、加拿大和南非等各国演出，曾经参加了英国爱丁堡、意大利布隆斯等地的艺术节，以及澳大利亚的各类艺术节。她曾经和世界各国多位指挥家合作演出多部钢琴协奏曲。

特别要指出的是今年她曾经在中国的厦门和上海多次成功地演奏了中国钢琴协奏曲《黄河》，受到了好评和赞扬。

卡罗兰·艾尔芒娣还和世界各国多位音乐家合作演出了室内乐音乐会，也经常会和澳大利亚各大城市的交响乐团定期演奏各类著名的钢琴协奏曲和室内乐作品。她同时十分热心于教学工作，经常出席在澳洲及海外的各类大师班，指导青少年的独奏和室内乐演奏活动。

Melbourne-born pianist Caroline Almonte has a reputation as a gifted, versatile and sensitive artist. She has won numerous awards, including the winner of the keyboard section of the ABC Young performers awards and First prize at the international chamber music competition in Italy, Premio Trio di Trieste.

 Caroline Almonte studied with Stephen McIntyre at the Victorian College of the Arts before completing postgraduate studies in piano performance at the Juilliard School in New York with Oxana Yablonskaya. Caroline has recorded and produced for the Australian Broadcasting Commision (ABC), and teaches piano at the University of Melbourne.

Caroline has performed across Europe, the United States, China, Japan, Canada and South America, and appeared at the Edinburgh Festival, Teatro Colosseo series in Buenos Aires and major festivals in Australia. She has performed piano concerti under conductors Nicholas Braithwaite, Oleg Caetani, Nicholas Carter, Reinhard Goebel, Hiroyuki Iwaki, Richard Mills, Benjamin Northey, Tadaaki Otaka, David Porcelijn and Markus Stenz.

The highlight is that this year she had several successful performances of Yellow River Piano Concerto in Xiamen and Shanghai, all were well received. Her many musical collaborations include performances with violinists Sarah Chang and Daniel Hope and cellist, Li Wei.

She has also performed chamber music with Australia Ensemble, Flinders Quartet, Escher Quartet, Ralph Kirshbaum, Yvonne Kenny, Elise Milman, Ian Munro, Merlyn Quaife, Anneke Scott, Dimity Shepherd and Miki Tsunoda, her partner from Duo Sol. Engagements have included Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Mozart piano concerti with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Adelaide symphony Orchestra, and the Dunkeld Festival of Music with the Australian String Quartet.

 Other highlights include performances with the Escher Quartet at the Perth Festival and a live national broadcast of Bach’s Goldberg Variations at the Australian Festival of Chamber music in Townsville.

Caroline is a founding member of the Sutherland Trio, a piano trio with violinist Elizabeth Sellars and cellist Molly Kadarauch.