Bruno Canino

Bruno Canino (2008)

Bruno Canino (born December 30, 1935 in Naples ) is an Italian pianist and composer .

Life

Canino initially received piano lessons from Vincenzo Vitale at the Naples Conservatory . He then studied piano with Enzo Calace and composition with Bruno Bettinelli at the Conservatory in Milan .

From 1953 he worked in the piano duo with Antonio Ballista , which had its focus on new music . In addition, he appeared from 1956 with Rocco Filippini and Cesare Ferraresi and Mariana Sîrbu in the Trio di Milano. He also worked a. a. with Salvatore Accardo , Itzhak Perlman , Saschko Gawriloff , Oleksandr Semchuk , Félix Ayo , Cathy Berberian , Thomas Brandis , Severino Gazzelloni , Lynn Harrell and Siegfried Palmtogether. He brought works a. a. by Luciano Berio , Sylvano Bussotti , Niccolò Castiglioni , Franco Donatoni , Rolf Liebermann , Wolfgang Rihm and Iannis Xenakis for the world premiere.

In 1956 and 1958 he received 4th prize at the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition in Bolzano and in 1960 shared the 2nd prize of the Kranichstein Music Prize (piano) with Andor Losonczy .

Canino was professor of piano at the Milan Conservatory from 1961 and taught at the Bern University of Music from 1991 to 2002 , where he trained a master class for piano and chamber music. From 1999 to 2002 he was the director of the Music Biennale di Venezia . He also took over the artistic direction of the Giovini Orchestra Genovese and the Campus Internazionale di Musica in Latina.

literature

• Ingo Harden : Bruno Canino . In: Ingo Harden, Gregor Willmes: Pianist profiles: 600 performers: their biography, their style, their recordings . Bärenreiter, Kassel 2008, ISBN 978-3-7618-1616-5 , pp. 116f.

Web links

Commons : Bruno Canino  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Bruno Canino at Discogs (English)
• Canino, Bruno. In: MGG Online (subscription required).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ingo Harden : Bruno Canino . In: Ingo Harden, Gregor Willmes: Pianist profiles: 600 performers: their biography, their style, their recordings . Bärenreiter, Kassel 2008, ISBN 978-3-7618-1616-5 , pp. 116f.
2. ↑ Bruno Canino - review of the 2011/12 season , www.stuttgarter-philharmoniker.de, accessed on January 29, 2018.