Italian pianist Giuseppe Andaloro is one of todays most appreciated pianists. This year he is scheduled to perform at the Salzburg Festspiele, at the Festival of the Two Worlds in Spoleto, at the Hong Kong International Piano Competition and at the Arturo Benedetti Michelangelo Festival in Brescia and Bergamo. Born in 1982 in Palermo, he is very appreciated and has a very busy concert season. He has been a keynote guest in many important events and has performed in the most prestigious halls in the world: at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, at the San Carlo in Naples, at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, at the Grobes Saal Mozarteum in Salzburg, at the Royal Festival Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, and at the Sumida Triphony and Pablo Casals Halls in Tokyo. His next concert will take place in Tokyo at the Auditorium Umberto Agnelli of the Italian Institute of culture.
“Cruel Beauty”
The event – organized by the Italian Institute of Culture – to take place Friday, February 26 at 18.30, will focus on some of the most beautiful pieces of music of the late European Romanticism and will feature the revisitation by Italian Ferruccio Busoni of the famous Chaconne in D minor by Johann Sebastian Bach. Andaloro has taught many master classes at institutions and conservatories in Japan, Indonesia, Thailand and the United States and has produced many recordings. His latest album “Cruel Beauty”, published by Sony and released in 2013, is a collection of late Renaissance and early Baroque Italian music that was played on a modern piano for the first time.
