Francesco Tristano

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Francesco Tristano Schlimé (born September 16, 1981 ) is a Luxembourg pianist , composer and producer . He appears under the name of Francesco Tristano.

Life

Francesco Tristano began to play the piano at the age of five and gave his first concert with his own compositions at the age of thirteen. He attended the Juilliard School in New York, where he took Latin lessons with Bruce Brubaker and Jacob and completed the master class with Rosalyn Tureck . Later studies took him to the conservatories in Brussels , Riga , Paris and Luxembourg and in 2003 at the Catalan Music Academy in Barcelona .

He made his debut in 2000 with the Russian National Orchestra under Mikhail Pletnev , with whom he recorded Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 5 and Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major . He later toured with the French National Orchestra Lille, the Orchester Philharmonique du Luxembourg and others.

In 2001 he founded the chamber ensemble "The New Bach Players", for which he transcribed Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons for piano and orchestra and conducted himself. In 2004 he won the International Pianist Prize for Contemporary Music in Orléans, France . In 2006 he founded the band "Aufgang", whose first album was released in 2009. In 2014 Tristano resigned from "Aufgang". Since then he has concentrated on collaborations with Bachar Mar-Khalifé (percussion & electronics) and Pascal Schumacher ( vibraphone , marimba , glockenspiel ), with whom he appears in a trio. Tristano was “ Artist in Residence ” of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra in the 2010/2011 season.

The musician has released numerous albums, including recordings of Bach's Goldberg Variations and the complete pianistic works of Luciano Berio . On his 2007 album Not for Piano , he presents his own versions of techno classics for piano solo using stylistic borrowings from classical , neo-classical and minimal music . For his album Idiosynkrasia he worked with Carl Craig, among others .

In 2016 he worked together with Derrick May , the light artist Mau Morgo and a design studio on a new stage and light show entitled p: anorig .

In May 2017 he signed a contract with Sony Music , for which his first project will be an album with Chilly Gonzales .

Francesco Tristano is married with three sons and lives in Barcelona.

Recordings and publications

• Johann Sebastian Bach, Goldberg Variations (2002)
• Johann Sebastian Bach, The Complete Piano Concertos (2004)
• Luciano Berio, Complete Piano Works (Piano Classics, 2005)
• Agoria - Cute & Cult (2005)
• Agoria - The Green Armchair (2006)
• Ravel - Prokofiev - Schlimé (2006)
• Frescobaldi Dialogues Girolamo Frescobaldi - Toccatas - Book 1 (2007)
• Not for Piano (Infine, Rough Trade, 2007)
• A Taste Of The Last Supper (2008)
• Francesco Tristano, Strings Of Life (2008)
• Francesco Tristano, The Melody (2008)
• Apparat - Things To Be Frickled (2008)
• Auricle Bio On (Infine, Rough Trade, 2009)
• Pop Art (2008)
• Carl Craig, Sessions (2008)
• Rise (2009)
• Freedom Jazz Trio - Under The Sun (2010)
• Piano Festival Ruhr - Francesco Tristano Live Piano Recital (2010)
• Idiosynkrasia (In Fine, Alive, 2010)
• bachCage ( Deutsche Grammophon , 2011)
• Long Walk - Francesco Tristano plays Buxtehude Bach Tristano (Deutsche Grammophon, 2012)
• Scandale (Deutsche Grammophon, 2014) - ALICE SARA OTT and FRANCESCO TRISTANO play in Duet FRANCESCO TRISTANO: A Soft Shell Groove, IGOR STRAVINSKY: The Rite of Spring (Version for Piano Duet); NICOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade - The Story of the Calendar Prince; MAURICE RAVEL: La Valse
• Afrodiziak - KhaliféSchumacherTristano ( Music Production Black Forest , Edel, 2015)
• Body Language, Vol. 16 (Get Physical Music, Rough Trade, 2015)
• Surface Tension (Transmat, Rough Trade, 2016)
• Piano Circle Songs (Sony Music, 2017)

Web links

• Official website
• Biography at hamburgersymphoniker.de
• Profile on Infiné Records
• Artist page on KlassikAkzente.de
• Artist site at Deutsche Grammophon [1]

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Francesco Tristano and Derrick May hit the keys together . In: Vice . October 4, 2016 ( vice.com [accessed November 22, 2018]).
2. ↑ francesco tristano: what is p: anorig. July 14, 2016, accessed November 22, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Franceso Tristano signs with Sony Music , in: Musikwoche, May 19, 2017
4. ↑ Announcement of the album ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Tristano's website from August 15, 2012.