Maurizio Baglini

Maurizio Baglini

Maurizio Baglini (* 1975 in Pisa ) is an Italian pianist .

Life

Baglini studied at the Conservatorio Giacomo Puccini in La Spezia. He was a prizewinner at the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition in Bozen and William Kapell in Maryland. In 1999 he won the World Music Piano Masters in Monte Carlo. He plays at the La Roque d'Anthéron, Loeckenhaus, Yokohama Piano Festival, Israel Festival in Jerusalem, Festival Berlioz à la Côte Saint-André, Nuits Romantiques à Aix-les-Bains, Australian Chamber Music Festival, Benedetti Michelangeli Festival in Bergamo and Brescia, Festival Jacques Klein in Rio de Janeiro and at the music associations and concert series Salle Gaveau, Musée d'Orsay, Auditorium du Louvre, Kennedy Center in Washington, Sala Cecilia Meireles in Rio de Janeiro, Gasteig in Munich.

He was a soloist in the orchestras Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, Zurich Chamber Orchestra , New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra , Orchestra Toscanini di Parma, and worked with the conductors Emmanuel Krivine , Armin Jordan, Howard Griffiths, Donato Renzetti , Brian Wright together.

There is a permanent duo with the Italian cellist Silvia Chiesa and the French violinist Amanda Favier.

His discography includes all Chopin études - recorded for Phoenix Classics on a modern piano and on two different original pianos from the 19th century - and the piano works by Bach / Busoni, 2005 and 2011 for Tudor on Fazioli pianos. As a passionate chamber musician, he focuses his activities on new partnerships and music literature, and here again on contemporary music. In November 2006 Azio Corghi dedicated a new work for cello and piano, D'après cinq chansons d'élite, to him and Baglini's traditional duo partner Silvia Chiesa.

In December 2007 he was invited together with Martha Argerich, Nelson Freire, Jean Marc Luisada to the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Salle Gaveau in Paris. In May 2008 he was invited to the television program “Toute la musique qu'ils aiment” by the French classical music expert Alain Duault, and he played in concerts broadcast live on RaiRadio3, France Musique, NHK Television.

In March 2009 he published a recording of the Liszt transcription of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 at DECCA , followed by Liszt's Twelve Transcendental Etudes in 2010. In 2011 DECCA released “Rêves”, a Liszt anniversary CD in which u. a. has recorded the Paganini Etudes, as well as another recording by Brahms and Schubert with Silvia Chiesa. In 2010 he played the world premiere of Azio Corghi's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in Turin with the Rai Orchestra under the direction of Arturo Tamayo . Most recently at Decca: Mussorgsky, works for piano, including pictures at an exhibition.

In 2005 he founded the Amiata Piano Festival and the Dionysus Music, Art and Multimedia Festival as artistic director, which takes place every year in the wine cellar of Colle Massari in Poggi del Sasso (Cinigiano) in Tuscany near Grosseto.

Since January 2011 he has also been artistic director of the concerts in the Palazzo Reale in Pisa, the artistic events in the showroom of the piano manufacturer Fazioli in Milan, and the chamber music festival Les Musiques de Montcaud in France. Since 2013 he has been artistic director of the Teatro Communale Giuseppe Verdi, Pordenone (Opera di Friuli).

Web links

• http://www.mauriziobaglini.com/