Trinity Laban Gold Medal Showcase 2022 Giordano Buondonno

Giordano Buondonno: Piano Fazil Say: Black Earth (Kara Toprak) Chopin: Berceuse in D-Flat major Chopin: Etude No. 1 The annual Gold Medal Showcase celebrates outstanding young Trinity Laban musicians. Competitors are nominated by the Heads of each of Departments within our Faculty of Music for their exceptional musical flair and professionalism, and all receive a Trinity Laban Director’s Prize for Achievement in recognition of this. The Gold Medal Showcase 2022 presents seven students and recent alumni as they compete for the prestigious Prize. The Showcase demonstrates the diversity of musical talent at Trinity Laban with an exciting and eclectic mix of classical and contemporary music, jazz and musical theatre. “I’m going to be playing Chopin and Say. Fazil Say is a Turkish living composer. I love him because he is really crazy with his Paganini variations, his kind of jazzy style: a fantastic composer and also fantastic concert pianist.“ Giordano Buondonno, Piano MMus (Performance) with Distinction 2021 Italian-born, Giordano Buondonno graduated from the Giacomo Puccini Conservatoire with Honours, receiving the highest mark in his class, and completed his MMus with Distinction in 2021 at Trinity Laban. He is studying for an Artist Diploma under the guidance of Sergio De Simone and Deniz Gelenbe. Giordano is a proud recipient of The Leverhulme Arts Scholarship, the Jaqueline Williams Scholarship and the Arthur Haynes Scholarship for his studies at Trinity Laban. At the age of 19, he won first prize at the Clara Schumann Competition and performed for the Piano City Festival in Milan. He also came first in the PianoLink Concerto Competition, playing Chopin’s First Piano Concerto with the PianoLink Philarmonic Orchestra in Milan. Giordano’s performance highlights include a recital at Steinway Hall, London; representing Trinity Laban as a finalist at the 2019 Beethoven Society Intercollegiate Piano Competition; the Sheepdrove Intercollegiate Piano Competition, the Young Artist concert series organised by Roma Tre Orchestra, South Hill Park Arts Centre in the International Conservatoire series, Paganiniano Festival in Italy, the Old Royal Naval College, St. Alfege Church and St. James’s Piccadilly in London. Interested in studying Piano and Keyboard at Trinity Laban? Find out more: