Donald Manildi (USA)

Donald Manildi has been the curator of the International Piano Archives at Maryland (IPAM) since 1993. His subject expertise and professional accomplishments make him a distinguished asset to the University. Mr. Manildi oversees the development and preservation of existing collections and the acquisition of significant new materials, attends to visits and inquiries of pianists and scholars from around the world, and serves as guest lecturer for University of Maryland music classes.

Mr. Manildi holds degrees in piano performance from the University of Washington (Seattle) and the Cleveland Institute of Music. He has made many appearances as a pianist in a broad repertoire of more than 200 works. For 17 years he served as music producers for Minnesota Public Radio, where he hosted a weekly broadcast series called The Romantic Piano. He has published more than 600 reviews, articles and discographies. His compact disc, Pianists as Composers, was released on the Elan label in 1999 to critical acclaim. He has also produced more than 20 CD reissues of historic piano recordings (available on the Pearl, Marston and IPAM labels), and he edited for publication the essays of the late pianist-scholar Jan Holcman, Pianists: On and Off the Record.

For more information on IPAM, please visit www.lib.umd.edu/PAL/IPAM.

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