The Italian Cultural Institute and the Embassy of Italy present a Piano Recital by critically acclaimed Gianluca Luisi celebrating the 150th anniversary of Ferruccio Busoni. The recital includes music by Verdi and Bach.
BIOGRAPHY
Critics from around the world (Postdate Nachrichten , Fanfare, New York at Carnegie Hall Concert reviews , Musica, consider Gianluca Luisi one of the most interesting Italian pianists of our time. His performances have received enthusiastic acclaim in many areas of the world.
In Italy, he graduated with honors from the Conservatory of Pesaro; studied at the Incontri col Maestro International Academy in Imola and with Aldo Ciccolini in Naples and Paris.
A winner of numerous competitions ( TIM International Competition Bellini of Caltanissetta , Rendano Prize , Competition of Cesenatico, Italian Music Youth Auditions, International Competition of Sulmona. Gianluca d received the first prize of the 4th International J.S. Bach competition in Saarbrucken – Würzburg, in March of 2001. He was selected among 54 pianists from 26 different countries while the critics heralded him as a new interpreter of J.S. Bach. On that occasion the Saarbrucken Zeitung declared: “The Italian won the first prize here. Well deserved […] because the young man is a great interpreter of Bach […] He produces music absolutely free . What more do you want?”
Gianluca Luisi has performed in prestigious halls and important venues, such as the Musikverein in Vienna , Carnegie Hall in New York City, the Festival of the rarity of the piano music of Husum ( Germany), the concert hall Toyota (Japan), the ” Musical Evenings “(serate musicali) in Milan, the Fondazione del Teatro Lirico di Trieste, the Accademia Filarmonica di Verona, the” Tiroler Festspiele (Austria), the Konzert Hall and Chuden Hall in Nagoya ( Japan), the Rossini Festival (Pesaro ), the New Auditorium of Milan, the Buam Hall in Seoul (Korea).
He also performed at the famous Teather Bellini in Catania, at the San Carlo in Naples ,to the Schleswig- Holstein Musik Festival, (Hamburg ), in the Mozart Saal at the Bachakademie in Stuttgart, the Bach Festival in Leipzig, in the castle of Bach in Köthen, Boesendorfer Hall in Vienna,for the Music Festival of the Saarland, in Weiden and Sulzbach for Meisterkonzerte, in Bauman Auditorium in Newberg (USA) and many other U.S. cities (Washington, New York, Las Vegas, Minneapolis, Cleveland, Lower Columbia College in Washington, as well as other places in Europe (Czechoslovakia, Malta, Porto ,Oslo, Helsink, Berlin, Neuhardenberg, Frankfurt.
He has worked with orchestras and as a chamber collaborator with the following ensembles: International Deutsch Chamber Orchestra (Frankfurt), Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra (Croatia), Frankfurt Ensemble by Hessichen Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Chantilly (Berlin),Winds of Parma, Orchestra of the San Carlo (Naples), Marche Philharmonic Orchestra(FORM), Symphony Orchestra Rossini, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Kasugay Symphony Orchestra (Japan), as well as others.
PROGRAM
Verdi Liszt : Don Carlos
Verdi Liszt: Miserere dal Trovatore
Gounòd Liszt :Valzer di Faust
Wagner Liszt: Isoldes Liebestod
Verdi Liszt: Rigoletto
Bach Busoni: “Nun freut euch, lieben Christen gmein” BWV734a
DOORS OPEN BETWEEN 6:00PM AND 6:55PM
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LOCATION
Embassy of Italy
3000 Whitehaven Street NW
Washington, DC 20008