JOEL D. ALTMAN
Director

jaltman@altmanartists.com
TEL 508-543-5404
FAX  508-543-5771
P.O. Box 391
Foxboro, MA 02035
USA

ROBERTO PLANO

"... showed artistic maturity beyond his years ... there were wonderful clarity and control of inner voices in his performances ... Mr. Plano demonstrated competition-honed virtuosity as well as musical depth. And his boyish, self-effacing stage manner should only help him win over audiences."

"Authority, technique: you name it, he let us know right away that he had the stuff ... Plano is beyond the point at which he can be called promising ... when needed, he let loose with tremendous power, but never just to flex his muscles. Plano cultivated beauty of tone and made this music sing."

- The Beacon Journal (Akron, OH)

"Plano played with authority. He made the piano sing and even his loud passages were easy on the ears. His cadenzas were impeccable, and the tempos were firm yet flexible."

The Sun (Redlands,CA)

"An incredibly sensitive pianist, Plano is capable of enormous power, then glistening, fluid runs, then breath-taking suspensions ... he made the gushy, sentimental melodies flow with solemnity and honesty, playing with such impeccable technique and certainty, that every painfully difficult passage – including octaves up and down the keyboard and lightning speed runs – seemed deceptively easy."

The Press-Enterprise (Redlands, CA)

" ... a young pianist who is destined to be one of the stellar artists of the contemporary age ... Plano’s performance demonstrated a flawless technique, moving delicately at lightning speed over the keys. The phrases roared, then whispered, all the while flowing like a swift stream ... truly a thrilling evening of music, suggesting a career for the performing artist which will ascend to the highest level of international triumph."

The Post-Journal (Jamestown, NY)

" ... he dazzled the crowd with the demonic-sounding first movement – like devils dancing on a mountaintop."

Savannah Morning News (GA)

" ... the pianist’s mastery of both technique and expression was nothing short of amazing … His outbursts of passion were truly operatic under his fingers ...  perhaps he could be called "the Pavarotti of the Piano?"

- The Chronicle (Glens Falls, NY)

" His rock-solid sense of rhythm gave a conversational flow to his playing, fast or slow.  This is a guy to watch (and to listen for)."

- The Spokesman Review (Spokane, WA)

"The performance was a real revelation ... Plano has been able to extract from his keyboard every kind of sound, from the soft pianissimo to the powerful fortissimo ...  He is a deep and exciting pianist."

-Süddeutsche Zeitung (Munich, GDR)

"The tone he produces is beautiful, his sense of line unfailingly lyrical ... A gifted virtuoso ono the threshold of a big career.  Plano has the talent, technique and personality to advance to the big leagues of the piano world."

-The Plain Dealer, (Cleveland, OH)

"The lithe Mr. Plano evoked the poetic and supremely confident spirit of Vladimir Horowitz."

-www. concertocom.net (The Classical Music Network)

"His performance of Ravel's "La Valse" was a triumph of expressive urgency over the temptation to prettify this depiction of fin-de-siecle Vienna on the brink of collapse. From the simmering opening pages, Piano made an ominous thing of the waltz, swerving flexibly here and adding propulsion and anxiety there. It was unsettling - and magnificent. "

-The Plain Dealer, (Cleveland, OH)

"Plano produced a pearly tone that asserted itself or retreated as the music demanded. "

-The Plain Dealer, (Cleveland, OH)

"Plano ... achieved a loving balance between folklike simplicity and purposeful virtuosity. "

-The Plain Dealer, (Cleveland, OH)

"... played with sharply deliniated levels, light and facile fingers, a onderful arch to his phrases in the slower passages and a finely wrought continuity between phrases and movements.  "

-The Post-Star, (Glens Falls, NY)