Dec. 26 – The Embassy of Italy, together with the Italian Cultural Institute in Jakarta, arranged a concert with pianist Michele Campanella for January 6 at the Usmar Ismail Hall in Jakarta. Campanella is internationally considered one of the greatest Liszt virtuosos interpreters. Campanella has played with major orchestras in Europe and USA, working with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Eliahu Inbal, Charles Mackerras, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Georges Pretre, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Thomas Schippers, Hubert Soudant , Pinchas Steinberg, and Christian Thielemann. He has been frequently invited in Australia, Russia, Britain, China, and Argentina; and was a guest in the international festivals of Lucerne, Vienna, Prague, Berlin and Pesaro (Rossini Opera Festival).
