CAIO PAGANO has appeared more than 800 times as recitalist, orchestral soloist, and chamber musician across four continents. He has earned the honor of Regent Professor of Piano at Arizona State University, where he has served since 1986. He is the recipient of many awards in Europe and in his native Brazil. He has premiered 30 works in concert halls worldwide, 19 of which were dedicated to him by the composers, including several concertos for piano and orchestra. He was the first pianist to perform the complete works of Schoenberg in several capitals of the world, and he has served on the juries of several international piano competitions, the most recent being the I Villa-Lobos International in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2006. In New York and Washington, he premiered Henri Pousseur’s Apostrophe, which he paired with Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations, and the New York Times wrote: “The Pousseur was transcendent, and the Beethoven was absolutely first-class, simultaneously idiomatic and original." Of the Beethoven, the Washington Post reviewer noted: “I started jotting comments after each variation, but I abandoned that as I realized I was being presented with a conception that was an incandescent entity."

Pagano is regularly featured on NPR, the BBC, Germany's Norddeutsche Rundfunk, Holland's Radio Hilversum, Switzerland's Radio de la Suisse Romande, Portugal's National Broadcasting, and the Voice of America. As a chamber musician, he has collaborated throughout the world with artists such as Saschko Gawriloff, Cristof Caskel, Raphael Hillyer, Werner Taube, Henry Schuman, Pierre Fournier, Janos Starker, Thomas Friedli, Szymon Goldberg, Albor Rosenfeld, the St.Petersburg Quartet, Maria João Pires, Gerard Caussé and the Jacques Thibaud Trio. He has been a featured artist at the Miami New World Festival, the Washington Interamerican Fest, the Grenoble Festival, the Megève Festival, the Montpellier Festival and many others. In partnership with Portuguese pianist Maria João Pires, Pagano created the Centre for Studies of the Arts in Portugal, and with her he recorded Sounds of Belgais for Deutsche Grammophon. His other acclaimed recordings appear on the Summit, Soundset, and Glissando labels. One of his CDs, Music for Children by Heitor Villa-Lobos, has received glowing reviews. The BBC Music Magazine named it “CD of the month," and Gramophone and Fanfare also gave it raves.

"Pagano is such a fine performer that any opportunity to hear him should be seized."
—The Washington Post

PROGRAM

Organ Prelude in g minor Kinderscenen, Op. 15 Von fremden Ländern und Menschen Kuriose Geschicte Hesche-Mann Bittendes Kind Glückes genug Wichtige Begebenheit Träumerei Am Kamin Ritter vom Steckenpferd Fast zu ernst Fürchtenmachen Kind im Einschlummern Der Dichter spricht Prelude. Chorale, and Fugue

J. S. Bach (1685-1750) transc. by Alexander Siloti (1863-1945) Robert Schumann (1810-56) César Franck (1822-90)

INTERMISSION

Sonata No. 3 in f minor, Op. 5 Allegro maestoso Andante espressivo Scherzo: Allegro energico Intermezzo: Andante molto Finale: Allegro moderato ma rubato

Johannes Brahms (1833-97)