Dominic Cheli, piano

We invite you to attend the second concert for the 2022-2023 Concert Series for The Artist Series of Tallahassee, featuring Dominic Cheli, piano at Opperman Hall. Also available as livestream and video on our website, www.theartistseries.org!

Welcome back to The Artist Series, Dominic! Dominic Cheli performed in our online, pre-recorded 2020 season, and we wanted to give our patrons the chance to see and hear Dominic play in person!

Dominic Cheli’s playing has been described as “spontaneous yet perfect, the best of how a young person can play” (Symphony Magazine). He enjoys a rapidly advancing career, including his Walt Disney Concert Hall debut with legendary conductor Valery Gergiev,
his Carnegie Hall Recital debut, and upcoming CD’s on the Naxos label. Cheli’s first CD, featured the music of Muzio Clementi. In 2017, Dominic won 1st place in the Concert Artists Guild Competition in New York City.

A native of St. Louis, Dominic has performed with orchestras all across the country and abroad, including the symphony orchestras of San Diego, Columbus, Virginia, and Princeton, as well as the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Germany. He has worked with
such esteemed conductors as Valery Gergiev, Rossen Milanov, and Matthew Aucoin, and recently debuted at several major festivals, including Ravinia and Mostly Mozart.

Committed to engaging with his surrounding community, Dominic regularly performs at high schools and retirement homes and gives both masterclasses and lectures for his younger audiences. Upon invitation, he has performed with Paul Coletti at ViolaFest in
Los Angeles for younger students, and “Baby Got Bach” with Pianist Orli Shaham at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC. Dominic has performed as an artist for Project: Music Heals Us, a nonprofit organization that presents interactive classical music performances to diverse
audiences in order to provide encouragement, education, and healing with a focus on elderly, disabled, rehabilitating, incarcerated, and homeless populations.

Mr. Cheli studied at the Manhattan School of Music, Yale University and the Colburn School. Andre-Michel Schub, Peter Frankl, Fabio Bidini, Zena Ilyashov, and Sylvia Rosenberg are individuals who have been especially influential on his development as an
artist. When he is not at the piano, you can find Dominic training for his next Ironman 70.3 triathlon race, grilling up a feast for his post-workout/concert meal, or reading biographies of composers with a glass of wine.

It’s an all Beethoven concert; program selections available to view at our newly, redesigned website: www.theartistseries.org.