Brenno Ambrosini

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Brenno Ambrosini (* 1967 in Venice ) is an Italian pianist and music teacher .

Ambrosini studied piano with MI Biagi (in Venice and Florence) and Roberto Cappello in Parma as well as organ, violin and composition with Ugo Amendola . After graduating cum laude, he completed his training in the master class of Gerhard Oppitz in Munich, with Mercés de Silva-Telles in Paris (1989) and from 1990 with Joaquín Soriano at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música in Madrid.

He has won prizes at several international piano competitions and has performed as a soloist with various chamber music ensembles and orchestras (including Scottish Chamber Orchestra , Orquesta de la Radiotelevisión Española , New Philharmonia of Japan , Camerata Sankt Peterburg , Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ). In 1990 he founded a duo with the Russian violinist Mark Lubotsky , and in 1994 another duo with the pianist David Kuyken . He also worked more often with musicians such as Jean-Pierre Rampal , Ilya Grubert , Alexander Ostrowski and Michael Thomas . On CD he recorded compositions by Niels Wilhelm Gade and Peter Heise (1992) and Francisco Llacer-Plà (1996), sonatas by Alfredo Piatti for cello and piano and the piano quintet by Joaquín Turina (1997). For the NHK he and his teacher Gerhard Oppitz produced four programs about the interpretation of Beethoven's works .

Several contemporary composers, including Haig Vartan , Viktor Suslin , Reinhard David Flender , Francisco Llacer-Pla and Carlos Cruz De Castro , composed works for Ambrosini. In 1999 he played Robert Gerhard's piano concerto in Saint Petersburg and Alfred Schnittke's piano concerto in Belgrade in 2004 . He gave piano courses in Spain, Italy, Germany and Poland, was professor of piano at the music academy in Castellón, juror at various piano competitions and chairman of the international composition competition Bell'Arte Europe . Since 2012 he has been professor for piano at the Amsterdam Conservatory .

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