Rodolfo Augusto Faistauer

Rodolfo Augusto Faistauer (São Leopoldo) is a Brazilian pianist. Rodolfo Faistauer started his musical studies at the Institute of Music of São Leopoldo, his hometown. At the age of thirteen he transferred his piano studies to Porto Alegre as a student of Dirce Bauer Knijnik, a pupil of Guiomar Novaes and Carlo Zecchi. Between 2007 and 2010 he studied at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in the class of Cristina Capparelli, obtaining his bachelor's degree in piano. In 2011, Rodolfo moved to Strasbourg, France, to study with pianist Amy Lin at the Académie Supérieure de Musique de Strasbourg, earning a Specialization Diploma in piano and a master's degree in Piano performance. Rodolfo has also studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, in Munich, Germany, with pianist Margarita Höhenrieder. Rodolfo has participated in the Summer Academies of Nancy, France, and of the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, as well as at the International Keyboard Institute and Festival in New York City. He has had the chance to learn through lessons and master classes form pianists such as: Cristina Ortiz, Peter Frankl, Andrzej Jasinski, Jean-Philippe Collard, Christian Ivaldi, Roy Howat, Arnaldo Cohen and Alon Goldstein. Rodolfo has performed solo and chamber music in Europe and Brazil. In 2016 he performed at the Hungarian Institute in Paris, as part of a symposium dedicated to the work of Hungarian composer György Kurtág.