Thomas Pandolfi, piano
Saturday, November 15, 2025 at 4pm
Ticket: $60
Sponsored by Robert and Sandy Cohn
Steinway artist Thomas Pandolfi takes center stage once again at Silo Hill with a program celebrating the Series’ 10-year milestone following his unforgettable performance of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue in May 2024. Recognized as a leading interpreter of the Polish masters, Thomas presents a spine-tingling program of Chopin, Paderewski, and Godowsky, along with the piano’s most beloved repertoire by Liszt and Gershwin.
Check out a brief highlight from Thomas’s Steinway at Silo Hill performance in May 2024.
A standout among today’s young pianists… his virtuosity and strength… might have had some believing that Liszt himself had taken over the keyboard.
Asheville Citizens-Times
master of both the grand gesture and the sensual line…
The Washington Post
Thomas Pandolfi
Thomas Pandolfi is a piano virtuoso receiving standing ovations from audiences worldwide while continuing to earn rave reviews from critics for his passionate artistry and amazing technique. He began his career early at The Juilliard School where the young prodigy caught the influential ears of Vladimir Horowitz, who would become his mentor, and legendary composer Morton Gould. Since then, he has been an audience favorite with sold-out concerts at the world’s most prestigious stages, including Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Strathmore, The Kennedy Center, Kiev Opera House, Bucharest’s Romanian Athenaeum, London’s Cadogan Hall, and many others. He is in demand both here and abroad including a 20-state tour of the USA and multiple tours in the UK, Romania, Moldova, and China. His performances have been broadcast by PBS, WETA (Washington, DC), WQXR (NYC), WRCJ (Detroit), DCN TV (China), The Sound (DC), and many others worldwide.
DC Metro Arts calls him, “exhilarating… a rare mix of technical accuracy and cool confidence.” “His artistry and technique were simply astonishing,” said Metropolitan Arts Reviews. The Washington Post boasted his “large-scale pianism seemed under tight control yet in no way muted the passion of his performance… projected with an exquisite sense of lyrical gesture.” “A standout among today's young pianists... His virtuosity and strength… might have had some believing that Liszt himself had taken over the keyboard,” said The Asheville Citizen-Times.
In addition to being recognized as one of the greatest interpreters of the Polish masters such as Chopin, Paderewski, and Godowsky, this versatile pianist has received accolades for everything from Bach to Gershwin. His original transcriptions of popular works, such as West Side Story and Phantom of the Opera, are one-of-kind, jaw-dropping encores that keep audiences of all ages clamoring for more.
Born in Washington, DC into a musical family, Pandolfi began his studies with his father and continued on with principal teachers Sasha Gorodnitzki, Adele Marcus, and Gyorgy Sandor. He holds a BM and MM from The Juilliard School.
