| Emanuele Arciuli Artist's Website >> Pianist Emanuele Arciuli has in recent years earned an outstanding reputation as a champion of both Classicism and Twentieth-Century Music, particularly the Second Viennese School and American contemporary music. His collaborations with composers including George Crumb, Frederic Rzewski, John Adams, Aaron J. Kernis and Joel Hoffman have won him their enthusiastic response. He performs regularly for prestigious concert societies and with major orchestras in Italy and throughout Europe. He has been presented in recital by Teatro San Carlo (Naples), Theatro Municipal (Rio de Janeiro), Teatro Carlo Felice (Genova), Berliner Festwochen, Biennale di Venezia, Sagra Malatestiana di Rimini, Settembre Musica and Unione Musicale di Torino; and he has performed as a soloist with orchestras including Orchestra Sinfonica "Verdi" di Milano, St.Petersburg Philarmonic, Orquestra Sinfonica Brasileira, Hungarian Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana Lugano, Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano and many others. In June of 1998 he made his American debut at the Corbett Auditorium at the University of Cincinnati for the prestigious Festival "X" with great success. He was immediately re-invited for the following year's festival and for other recitals in the U.S. including Denver, Philadelphia, Boston, Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Milwaukee. He has recorded for the Stradivarius, VAI, Bridge and Chandos labels. His discography includes the complete piano works of Berg and Webern, the original version of the second book of Liszt's Années de Pèlerinage, the piano concerto of Bruno Maderna and an anthology of American piano music entitled Americans! Recipient of the "Patron of Exceptional Artist" award, he made his debut at The Miami Piano Festival in 2002. The VAI label will release a live CD of that recital. In November 2002 he premiered to great acclaim the "Round Midnight Variations" in New York (at Miller Theater of Columbia University), a collection of variations on the famous Thelonious Monk theme, composed for him by major American musicians (Babbit, Bolcom, Crumb, Daugherty, Harbison, Hoffman, Kernis, Torke, Rzewski ands more). Recent highlights include Beethoven Concertos Nos. 2 and 4 with Orquestra Sinfonica Brasileira in Rio, the Schnittke Piano Concerto at Teatro Comunale di Modena, the Italian première of John Adams Piano Concerto "Century Rolls" in Milan, Bartòk Piano Concerto No. 3 with Orchestra Toscanini, Bernstein's "Age of Anxiety" with the St.Petersburg Philarmonic, recitals in New York, Washington, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Cincinnati, Lecce, Ravello festival etc. and several new CDs (Crumb's Eine Kleine Mitternachtmusik, Adams, Rzewski, Beethoven and others). He teaches at the Conservatory of Bari and is Guest Faculty at University of Cincinnati. O1C Performances: Emanuele Arciuli |
