Giuseppe Albanese

Giuseppe Albanese (born Reggio Calabria, May 11, 1979) is an Italian pianist.

Early years

Giuseppe began studying the piano at the age of five and graduated in 1996 at Conservatory "G. Rossini " in Pesaro under the guidance of Annamaria Cristina Raffa. He then attended the Imola International Piano Academy under the supervision of Franco Scala and Piero Rattalino, achieving the master title (the highest certificate released by this institution) in 2003.

In the same year he completed his traditional studies graduating in Philosophy at University of Messina with a thesis on Franz Liszt aesthetics in "Années de pèlerinage". Since 2005 he is a teacher of “methodology of music communication” in the same university.

Career

Piano Competitions

• 1997: First Prize at "Premio Venezia" competition (President of the jury: Roman Vlad);
• 2002: "Special prize for the best piano contemporary execution" at Ferruccio Busoni competition
• 2003: First Prize at “Vendome Prize” international competition (President of the jury : Jeffrey Tate).

Recordings

• 1998: Premio Venezia:
  • F. Chopin: Fantasy Op. 49
  • F. Schubert: “Wanderer” Fantasy D. 760
  • R. Schumann: Fantasy Op. 17
  • A. Skrjabin: Fantasy Op. 28

• 1999: Luciano Simoni:
  • Europe Piano Concerto Op. 50
  • Canto di Liberazione Op. 14
  • Da sempre mi conosci Op. 52

• 2000: 1900:
  • B. Bartόk: Vàltozatok (Variations) DD64
  • E. MacDowell: Sonata No. 4 (Keltic) in E minor, Op. 59
  • K. Szymanowski: Preludes Op. 1
  • A. Skrjabin: Fantasy Op. 28

• 2004: En plen air:
  • F. Mendelssohn: Sonata in B flat major, op. 106
  • C. M. Von Weber: Sonata No. 3 in D minor, op. 49
  • C. Tausig: 2 Concert Etudes for Piano, op. 1
  • C. Debussy: 4 Preludes
  • B. Bartόk: Out of Doors, Sz. 81

• 2012: Claude Debussy: Pour le Piano:
  • Suite Bergamasque
  • Ballade
  • Pour le Piano
  • Nocturne
  • Estampes
  • Masques
  • L'isle joyeuse
  • La plus que lent

Collaborations

Giuseppe makes regular recital tours in Europe and America. He has performed in the most important Italian theaters (such as San Carlo in Naples, La Fenice in Venice, Comunale in Bologna, Carlo Felice in Genes, Petruzzelli in Bari, Auditorium Parco della Musica and Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, Auditorium “Verdi” and Teatro Dal Verme in Milan, Lingotto in Turin, Valli in Reggio Emilia, Auditorium Nicolò Paganini in Parma; Alighieri in Ravenna, Olimpico in Vicenza, Politeama in Palermo) and abroad (New York, Berlin, Essen, Salisburg, Paris, London, Warsaw, Lisbon, Cairo, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Santiago).

He has also performed with major leading orchestras under conductors as Pavel Belaff, James Conlon, Will Humburg, Dmitri Jurowski, Alain Lombard, Othmar Maga, Anton Nanut, Tomas Netopil, George Pehlivanian, Jurai Valchua, Jonathan Webb.

External links

• Official Web Site

References