Background
Lombardi was born on July 21, 1926 in New York City, New York, United States; the son of Pasquale Edward Lombardi and Erminia Constance Maviglia.
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Lombardi was born on July 21, 1926 in New York City, New York, United States; the son of Pasquale Edward Lombardi and Erminia Constance Maviglia.
Lombardi received a Bachelor of Music degree from Manhattan School of Music in 1950. Twelve years later he earned his Master of Science degree from Queens College. Also in 1972, Carlo was given a Doctor of Philosophy degree from New York University.
Lombardi gave his first concert in New York in 1936 and began to perfrom as a solo pianist. He was a president at North Shore Conservatory of Music from 1961 to 1969. Also in 1963, Lombardi was appointed an assistant professor of music at Adelphi University. Then in 1969, Carlo became a professor of music at Dowling College, teaching in the School of Arts and Sciences and held the position for forty five years. Since 2014 he has been a professor emeritus of music there. In addition, Carlo is teaching Music in Western Civilization.
Each of the almost 550 individual works, large and small, which comprise the contents of the 48 Volumes of the "Piano Omnibus Collection", the 36 CD`s of the "Piano Masterworks Series" and the single "Famous Piano Classics" CD were recorded by Carlo Lombardi during the early years of the first decade of the 21st Century.
Lombardi has been praised by music critics in Europe as "a great, original pianist, who plays in the "Grand Manner" of the late 19th Century Golden Age of Pianism. His hypnotic, stupendously impelling virtuosity and his colossal, magnificent piano technique have been internationally recognized in New York and Rome ever since the season of his mature pianistic debuts during his early twenties."
Quotes from others about the person
"There is a mesmerizing sense of inevitability in a Carlo Lombardi performance which captures, engulfs, and overwhelmingly sweeps one downstream as would a mighty river - initially within its gentle, subtle, coaxing currents; then, within its broad, surging flow; and finally, - within its wildly raging torrents as these rush headlong and disperse into a boundless ocean."
On March 21, 1953 Carlo Lombardi married Juliana Campioni Lombardi. They have 2 children - Julian and Sandro. On June 8, 1970 he married Barbara Florence Kilthau, with whom he divorced in April 1993. They have a child Adrian.
She was an associate director of the North Shore Conservatory of Music. She died in 1967.
