Giorgio Koukl

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Giorgio Koukl (born 1953, Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a composer and pianist/harpsichordist who lives in Lugano, a town located in Ticino, an Italian-speaking canton of southern Switzerland.

Through masterclasses with Czech-American pianist Rudolf Firkusny, Koukl was first introduced to the piano music of Bohuslav Martinů. Koukl has recorded a 6-CD set of the complete solo piano music of Martinů for Naxos Records.^[1]. The first disc was released in early 2006; to date four of the 6 discs have been published.