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Carlo Grante (born 1960 in L'Aquila) is an Italian classical pianist. He graduated at the National Academy of St Cecilia in Rome with Sergio Perticaroli [it]. Later he also studied with Ivan Davis, Rudolf Firkušný, and Alisa Kezheradze. He is known as a performer of mainstream classical composers such as Franz Liszt, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Domenico Scarlatti, as well as highly demanding late romantic and 20th-century composers such as Leopold Godowsky, Ferruccio Busoni, George Flynn, Roman Vlad, Michael Finnissy, Alistair Hinton, and Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji. His discography consists of more than 50 albums.[1][2]


Biography


Grante graduated in piano at the Conservatory St. Cecilia in Rome with Sergio Perticaroli, then he studied in the U.S. with Ivan Davis, at the University of Miami and with Rudolf Firkusny at the Juilliard School in New York; he then moved to London, where he studied intensively with Alisa Kezheradze-Pogorelić.

Grante is one of the most active among today's recording pianists and his concert repertoire, which has also contributed to the appreciation of lesser-known works. His discography currently numbers more than fifty CDs, ranging from Domenico Scarlatti (the complete recording of the sonatas is taking place in Vienna—a project of about 40 CDs under the patronage of Bösendorfer and Paul and Eva Badura-Skoda), Platti, Clementi, Liszt and Schumann, to twentieth-century composers as Godowsky, Busoni and Sorabji. His recent record productions include works by Roman Vlad (Opus Triplex) and Finnissy (Bachsche Nachdichtungen) dedicated to him and inspired by Bach and Busoni, the two concertos for piano and orchestra by Franz Schmidt with the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Fabio Luisi, three concertos for piano and orchestra by Mozart with the Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome conducted by Bernhard Sieberer, the Busoni Concerto, recorded live in Vienna with the Vienna Symphony conducted by Fabio Luisi, the three sonatas by Schumann (recorded in the Sala Santa Cecilia in Rome's Parco della Musica), as well as works by Godowsky, Rachmaninoff, Flynn, Bloch and Liszt.

In his concert activity[3] he has performed in major concert venues and prestigious halls: the Grosser Saal of the Konzerthaus and Goldener Saal of the Musikverein in Vienna, Wigmore Hall and Barbican Hall in London, at the Parco della Musica in Rome, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Dresden Semperoper, Staatsoper Stuttgart, in New York, Chicago, Milan, Moscow, Hong Kong, Singapore, Hanoi, Zagreb, Bucharest, Lima, Rio de Janeiro, the Vienna Festival, Istanbul, Husum, Newport, Neuhaus Festival in Saratov, Miami, Tallinn, Ravello, MDR Musiksommer, etc., with major orchestras, such as Staatskapelle Dresden, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, Vienna Symphony, Orchestra of St. Cecilia, Orchestra i Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan, Orchestra of Radio-TV in Zagreb, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Cappella Istropolitana of Bratislava, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, etc. Grante has also written scholarly articles regarding research into methodology and piano literature.

At the Newport Music Festival in 1995, Grante performed the world premiere of the 53 Studies on the Études of Chopin by Leopold Godowsky. In 1996, on the occasion of two recitals at Wigmore Hall in London, a Musical Opinion reviewer wrote: "The discs of Grante had shown astonishing qualities... his live performances have then proved him to be the first rate pianist that his discs suggested."[This quote needs a citation]

In 1997 he gave a series of six recitals in New York.

He performed again at the Newport Music Festival in 2011 and 2012.[4]


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  1. "Carlo Grante, pianist". carlogrante.com. Archived from the original on 2012-03-04. Retrieved 2011-12-06.
  2. "Carlo Grante". onepointfm.com.
  3. Jean-Pierre Thiollet, 88 notes pour piano solo, "Solo nec plus ultra", Neva Editions, 2015, p. 51. ISBN 978 2 3505 5192 0.
  4. "Newport Music Festival 2012 Celebrates 44th Season". Archived from the original on 2013-12-19. Retrieved 2013-07-23.




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