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Francesco Piemontesi is a Swiss pianist.

Life

Born in 1983 in Locarno,[1] he studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover with Arie Vardi[2][3] before closely collaborating with Alfred Brendel.[4] He rose to international prominence with prizes at several major competitions, including the 2007 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels.[5] In 2009 he was awarded the fellowship of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust.[6] From 2009 to 2011 he was chosen as a BBC New Generation Artist.[7] In 2012, Piemontesi was announced as Artistic Director of the Settimane Musicali music festival in Ascona,[8] and received the BBC Music Magazine Newcomer Award for his Recital disc with works by Haendel, Brahms, Bach and Liszt.[9] Since 2012 he records exclusively for the French label Naïve Classique.[10] He currently lives in Berlin.[11]

Francesco Piemontesi has given concerts with major ensembles worldwide: Cleveland Orchestra,[12] London Philharmonic Orchestra,[13][14] Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra,[15] City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra,[16] NHK Symphony Orchestra,[17] Gewandhausorchester Leipzig,[18] Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France,[19] RSB[20] and DSO[21] Berlin. He has performed with such conductors as Zubin Mehta,[22] Roger Norrington,[23] Charles Dutoit,[24] Jiří Bělohlávek,[25] Stanisław Skrowaczewski,[26] Vladimir Ashkenazy,[27] Ton Koopman[28] and Marek Janowski,[29] and has appeared in many international music festivals including the BBC Proms,[30] Edinburgh International Festival,[31] Aix-en-Provence Festival[32] and Mostly Mozart Festival.[33]

Discography

• Schoenberg, Messiaen & Ravel, PENTATONE, 2022
• Schubert: Last Piano Sonatas, PENTATONE, 2019
• Debussy: Preludes, Naïve Records, 2015[34]
• Mozart: Piano works, Naïve Records, 2014[35]
• Schumann | Dvorak: Piano concertos (BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiří Bělohlávek), Naïve Records 2013[36]
• Frank Martin: Intégrale des Oeuvres pour Flûte (Emmanuel Pahud, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Thierry Fischer), Musiques Suisses 2012[37]
• Recital: Händel, Brahms, Bach, Liszt, Avanti classics 2010[38]
• Schumann: Piano works, Claves records 2009[39]

External links

• official website
• Naïve Classique
• Colbert Artists Management, Inc. - North American Management
• Sergei Rachmaninov, Piano sonata No. 2 Op. 36
• Francesco Piemontesi in concert with Frankfurt Radio Orchestra
• 'The Spectator' magazine: portrait

References

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