June 8-11. Invited to be a Keynote speaker at the International Hisarli Ahmet Symposium, "The Theoretical Background of Music Performance."
January 2023, got awarded 1,000,000 to organize the Borderland Chopin Festival. Oscar's vision is to create an international festival and competition in El Paso, Texas. Stayed tuned!
October 10, 2022, Founder, Artistic and Executive Director the Borderland Chopin Festival. An annual festival promoting the music of beloved Polish composer Frédéric Chopin, as well as other composers from unrepresented groups, in the Borderland region (West Texas, Southern New Mexico, and Chihuahua, Mexico). Dr. Macchioni's vision includes annual concerts, masterclasses, lectures, community outreach, and a piano competition for students from the Borderland region.
October ,2022, awarded the Boonie Brooks Fellowship in Music at the University of Texas at El Paso.
July 2021, featured alum ,The University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music.
December 2020, honored with the "Tarco Prize" to the Artistic Trajectory from the Municipality of Tafi Viejo, Tucuman, Argentina.
Founder and Artistic Director of Talenti International Piano Academy
April 2019, inducted into the UTEP Academy of Distinguished Teachers.
June 2018, promoted to Keyboard Area Coordinator
August 2015, received the University of Texas System Regent's Outstanding Teaching Award.
August 2014, promoted to Department of Music's Assistant Chair
REVIEWS
"...Listening to him play it is evident Macchioni is a musician and performer of great sensibility. Fascinating!" Ray Picot, ILAMS, UK (2012) Read Review
"...He plays these endlessly evocative works with understanding and seeming ease-bringing out their lovely melodies, finding tempos that seem quite right, and expertly balancing their wit, gravity, and passion." Barry Kilpatrick, American Record Guide, (November/December 2010)
"...fine pianist, his playing is strong, with clear and expressive phrasing. And the recorded sound is excellent...quite vigorously if this performance is anything to go by. Recommended." James Tobin, Classical Net, (2010) Read Review
"...Macchioni is a sublime pianist with a deft touch..." Betty Ligon, El Paso Inc., (2009)
"Aportes para la buena música...precise fingering...mature interpretation of Brahms and Szymanowski...Didatic, eclectic program..." Daniel Varacalli Costas, La Prensa, Buenos Aires, (2007)
"Piano personality...powerful reading of the romantic Beethoven sonata [op. 109], beautiful serene finale...We were most impressed with the Prokofiev Sonata No.3, full of passion and great drama, his fingering showed great clarity of line, clear as crystal with notes clean and crisp..." Betty Ligon, El Paso Inc., (2004)
