For Your Consideration
Classical Instrumental Solo
Bruce Leto, Jr. (Pianist)
Cantabile Expressions from the Baroque to Present
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Contemporary Classical Composition
"Played with great care and sensitivity...Bruce Leto is an intelligent
and highly-skilled musician."
- Charles Abramovic, Department Chair Piano Studies (Temple University)

"Bruce Leto plays all the works with the appropriate introspection, lovely tone, and plasticity of phrasing...he revels in the variety of textures available,
finding real mystery as well as delivering passages of
granitic strength and grotesque playfulness..."
- Fanfare Magazine
 
"Pianist Bruce Leto's album Singing Style on Albany Records is hailed as "universally embraceable" by Tom Haugen in Take Effect Reviews. Leto "offers a live performance [of Cacioppo's Armed and Dangerous]
that’s as flawless as it is memorable...
For fans of piano music, few are doing it as well as Leto."
- Take Effect
BRUCE LETO, Jr.
As a prize-winner in scholastic (Dora Khyatt); Collegiate (Bi-Co Concerto Competition); national (Seattle International Piano Festival - Virtuoso Artists); and international (Quebec Music Competition; VI Odin) piano adjudications - Bruce's music tenure has enabled him to perform in PA, NJ, FL, NY, and Italy.
In 2021, Bruce received 1st Prize in the Grand Metropolitan International Music Competition (Professional Division - Piano) - successfully winning his first-ever professional division as a soloist.

Previously, Bruce also received 3rd Prize in the Four-Hands category of the VI Odin International Music Competition with ensemble partner Scott Cohen; 3rd Prize in the National West Chester Piano Competition; 1st Prize in the Seattle International Piano Festival - Virtuoso Artists 2021 (19 and Up; and Professional Division - multiple works); and Finalist Placing with Special Recognition - Championing the Music of Charles and Curt Cacioppo (Judge's Citation) via the highly competitive The American Prize (Professional Division, Solo).

"Apparition", composed by Charles ("Chuck") Cacioppo appears on the Ballot under Contemporary Classical Composition.
Bruce's playing has been described as "kaleidoscopic," "refined," "intelligent," "exceptional," "multifaceted," "poetic," "lyrical," and "highly skilled" by piano department chairs of music schools, critically-acclaimed international pianists, professional review outlets such as Take Effect, Fanfare, and Artisan Music Reviews and Navona-affiliated composers. He has been featured in masterclasses with concert artists such as: Steven Mayer, Riccardo Piacentini, Veda Zuponcic, and Leon Bates!

In 2020, Bruce released a CD ("GOMITOLO! An Interpreter's Tribute to a COVID-Stricken Europe") with Navona records, which received a Silver Medal at the Global Music Awards in 2020, and airplay on UMFM radio!
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