Anthony Padilla, Piano

Biography

Anthony Padilla is a professor of piano and chamber music at the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music.  Since his debut with the Seattle Symphony in 1983, he has become a popular guest artist throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.  After his New York debut recital, the New York Concert Review called him “a strong-willed, steel-fingered tornado: he plays the piano with absolute authority and gives new meaning to the idea of ‘interpretation’ to the extent that the U.S. Patent Office might well grant him a number. Nobody could copy him.”

A protégé of the legendary pianist Jorge Bolet at the Curtis Institute of Music, he went on to complete his graduate studies at the Eastman School of Music. Awarded the prestigious Beethoven Fellowship by the American Pianists Association and top prize at the Concert Artists Guild International Competition, he is also a laureate of the Naumburg, Bachauer, Kapell, and Cleveland International Piano Competitions. He was recently awarded an Artistic Excellence grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.