Background
He was born in Benevento, Italy.
He was born in Benevento, Italy.
From 2005 to 2009 he attended the courses held by Riccardo Risaliti at the International Piano Academy "Incontri colonel Maestro" in Imola.
He began his musical studies with Salvatore Orlando, disciple of the pianist Sergio Fiorentino. His first recording was released in 2008 by Gramola and dedicated to Franz Liszt. Afterwards, from 2011, he began a series of recordings with Piano Classics dedicated to Charles-Valentin Alkan, composer of which he is considered nowadays one of the most important and devoted advocate ("With these passionate recordings Maltempo confirms his place in the restricted circle of Alkan’s best performers").
His CDs have gained great approval by the international critics, obtaining five stars in reviews on such papers like The Guardian and Diapason.
Furthermore, he his one of the few pianists who recorded the complete set of Alkan"s Études Operation 39 and one of the three pianists who played so far the complete set of these Etudes in one concert (November 2, 2013 in Yokohama, Minato Mirai Hall, Japan).
His Alkan recordings for Piano Classics include also other important works such as the Grande Sonate Operation 33, the Sonatine Operation 61 and the Trois Morceaux dans le genre pathétique Operation
15. Maltempo also collaborated with Italian pianist Emanuele Delucchi on a Civil Defense of the complete Vianna da Motta transcriptions of organ works by Alkan.
In the September 2014 he is nominated "Honorary Member" of the London Alkan Society. His repertoire goes from the baroque music to the modern music, with a particular interest in the romantic music and in the less performed piano repertoire (Alkan, Leopold Godowsky, Élie-Miriam Delaborde, Jean-Henri Ravina, Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann, Cécile Chaminade, et al). He also published for Ries&Erler piano transcriptions of the Second Suite from the ballet "Daphnis et Chloé" by M. Ravel and the Symphony by Hans Rott, the first piano solo concert transcription of that work.