Caroline Almonte PIANIST (AUS) 卡羅蘭·艾爾芒娣 鋼琴家（澳洲）
出生于墨爾本的鋼琴家卡羅蘭 艾爾芒娣，自幼就以她的敏慧和多才多藝著稱。她曾經多次獲獎，包括澳大利亞ABC電臺的全澳青年演奏家大獎、意大利國際室內樂比賽第一名。
卡羅蘭·艾爾芒娣曾在維多利亞藝術學院和斯蒂文·邁肯泰學習鋼琴，之后在紐約茱麗亞音樂學院向雅布朗斯卡婭完成了鋼琴演奏課程。卡羅蘭·艾爾芒娣被委任在澳大利亞ABC廣播公司做了大量的錄音和節目制作，她也在墨爾本大學音樂學院執教。
卡羅蘭·艾爾芒娣多年來在歐洲各地、美國、中國、日本、加拿大和南非等各國演出，曾經參加了英國愛丁堡、意大利布隆斯等地的藝術節，以及澳大利亞的各類藝術節。她曾經和世界各國多位指揮家合作演出多部鋼琴協奏曲。
特別要指出的是今年她曾經在中國的廈門和上海多次成功地演奏了中國鋼琴協奏曲《黃河》，受到了好評和贊揚。
卡羅蘭·艾爾芒娣還和世界各國多位音樂家合作演出了室內樂音樂會，也經常會和澳大利亞各大城市的交響樂團定期演奏各類著名的鋼琴協奏曲和室內樂作品。她同時十分熱心于教學工作，經常出席在澳洲及海外的各類大師班，指導青少年的獨奏和室內樂演奏活動。
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.
