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Swiss pianist
Francesco Piemontesi rehearsing with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales at Royal Albert Hall, London

Francesco Piemontesi is a Swiss pianist.

Life

Born in 1983 in Locarno, he studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover with Arie Vardi before closely collaborating with Alfred Brendel. He rose to international prominence with prizes at several major competitions, including the 2007 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. In 2009 he was awarded the fellowship of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust. From 2009 to 2011 he was chosen as a BBC New Generation Artist. In 2012, Piemontesi was announced as Artistic Director of the Settimane Musicali music festival in Ascona, and received the BBC Music Magazine Newcomer Award for his Recital disc with works by Haendel, Brahms, Bach and Liszt. Since 2012 he records exclusively for the French label Naïve Classique. Since 2019 he records for the Pentatone label. He currently lives in Berlin.

Francesco Piemontesi has given concerts with major ensembles worldwide: Cleveland Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, RSB and DSO Berlin. He has performed with such conductors as Zubin Mehta, Roger Norrington, Charles Dutoit, Jiří Bělohlávek, Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Ton Koopman and Marek Janowski, and has appeared in many international music festivals including the BBC Proms, Edinburgh International Festival, Aix-en-Provence Festival and Mostly Mozart Festival.

Discography

External links

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