Francesco Piemontesi

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Francesco Piemontesi and Roger Norrington at a rehearsal with the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin in the Berlin Philharmonic

Francesco Piemontesi (born July 7, 1983 in Locarno ) is a Swiss pianist .

Life

He made his concert debut in 1994 and has been studying at the Lugano University of Music since he was 15. He then continued his studies at the Hanover University of Music and Drama . His teachers include Cécile Ousset , Alexis Weissenberg , Arie Vardi and Alfred Brendel . He grew up in Tenero in Ticino . He graduated from high school in 2002. He currently lives in Berlin .

After receiving awards at various important piano competitions, Francesco Piemontesi has received concert invitations from major concert halls and festivals such as the BBC Proms , Lucerne Festival and Edinburgh International Festival . He gave concerts a. a. with the London Philharmonic Orchestra , the BBC Symphony Orchestra , the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Munich Philharmonic , the Los Angeles Philharmonic , the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra , the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra , the Cleveland Orchestra , the NHK Symphony Orchestra , the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra , the Radio Symphony Orchestra and the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin , the Czech Philharmonic , the Orchester de Paris and the Orchester Philharmonique de Radio France , the Orchester de Chambre de Lausanne and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under conductors such as Zubin Mehta , Roger Norrington , Charles Dutoit , Jiří Bělohlávek , Stanisław Skrowaczewski , Gianandrea Noseda , Vladimir Ashkenazy , Sakari Oramo , Marek Janowski , Andrew Manze , Ton Koopman , Andrea Marcon , Manfred Honeck , Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla , Thomas Søndergård and Michail Pletnjow . Regular chamber music partners of his are Renaud Capuçon , Jörg Widmann , Antoine Tamestit , Daniel Müller-Schott and the Emerson String Quartet .

He has given piano recitals in major concert halls such as the Berlin Philharmonic , the Wiener Konzerthaus and the Musikverein , the Southbank Center in London, the New York Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall , the Suntory Hall Tokyo, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and the Hollywood Bowl . Piemontesi has a special relationship with London's Wigmore Hall , which invited him to perform all of Mozart's piano works cyclically from 2016.

In 2010 Francesco Piemontesi was awarded the Fellowship of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust in London and from 2009 to 2011 was the BBC's "New Generation Artist" . In 2012 Piemontesi received the “Best Newcomer Award” from BBC Music Magazine for its CD “Recital” with works by Handel, Bach, Brahms and Liszt. Francesco Piemontesi has been the artistic director of the Settimane Musicali in Ascona since 2013 .

Discography

  • Debussy: Preludes, Naïve Records, 2015
  • Mozart: Piano Works, Naïve Records, 2014
  • Schumann | Dvorak: Piano Concertos, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Jiří Bělohlávek, Naïve Records 2013
  • Frank Martin: Intégrale des Oeuvres pour Flûte, with Emmanuel Pahud and the Orchester de la Suisse Romande under Thierry Fischer, Musiques Suisses 2012
  • Recital: Works by Handel, Brahms, Bach, Liszt, Avanti classics 2010
  • Schumann: Piano Works, Claves 2009

Reviews

In the Fono Forum Frank Siebert described the expressive, melancholic depth and urgency of Piemontesi's interpretation of Mozart's sonatas, which seem to touch the essence of the music. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung attested that Piemontesi had a subtle touch technique, expressiveness and technical perfection for his interpretation of Brahms' 2nd piano concerto with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra . The Neue Zürcher Zeitung called Piemontesi a "sound magician". The English newspaper The Independent described a performance of Debussy's Preludes as breathtaking and praised its flawless technique, which he put entirely at the service of his very original interpretation. The English music writer Jeremy Nicholas placed Piedmontesi's recording of the 24 Preludes by Claude Debussy in a row with the legendary interpretations by Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli and Marc-André Hamelin .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 07. 2014, Frank Siebert, Fono Forum
  2. ↑ 01. 2014, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
  3. ^ 08. 2013, Alfred Zimmerlin, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
  4. ↑ 11th 2012, Michael Church, The Independent
  5. ↑ http://www.sinfinimusic.com/uk/reviews/recordings/daily-reviews/piemontesi-debussy-preludes-2015
personal data
SURNAME Piemontesi, Francesco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss pianist
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Locarno