| At 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 18, the USC School of Music’s very own Charles Fugo will demonstrate to an audience what his students already know—that he is a skilled and accomplished pianist.
Maestro Stefano Mazzoleni from Italy will be the guest conductor for the evening.
During the USC Symphony Orchestra's concert, attendees will hear Fugo perform Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor at the Koger Center. The orchestra will also showcase Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture and Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis.
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| Charles Fugo |
Fugo is a music professor in the USC School of Music, where he teaches piano, coaches chamber music, and serves as coordinator of the keyboard division. He received his baccalaureate degree at Oberlin Conservatory, with additional study at the Akademie des Mozarteums, Salzburg, Austria, and his master’s and doctoratal degrees at Indiana University. His teachers include Abbey Simon, Jorge Bolet, Joseph Schwartz, and Winfried Wolf, with chamber music coaching under Menahem Pressler of the Beaux Arts Trio. He has served on the staffs of the Anderson Piano Performance Camp and of the summer honors program of the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities. He has also performed with the South Carolina Philharmonic, the South Carolina Chamber Orchestra, and the Florence and Charleston Symphony Orchestras, and has appeared on several statewide radio and television programs.
Guest conductor Mazzoleni is a specialist in 20th century music. He has studied piano, double bass, choral music, choral conducting, and experimental composition at the Fiesole School of Music with Sylvano Bussotti. He studied orchestral conducting at the Hochschüle fur Müsik in Vienna. He has conducted many orchestras in various countries, including prestigious soloists, in symphony concerts and opera, in Europe, Japan, the United States, and Central and South America. He founded and conducts Ensemble 900, a chamber music ensemble specializing in contemporary music.
In 1995, Mazzoleni founded the festival “Windows on the 20th Century” in Treviso, Italy, of which he is the artistic director. The festival specializes in music and culture of our time and has enjoyed the participation of many Italian and international artists. In nine years, more than 100 concerts have been give––many of which were world or Italian premieres.
As a composer, some of Mazzoleni’s pieces have been performed by San Paolo Audiovisivi.
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