This concert is presented in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of San FranciscoThis is a rare opportunity of hearing the complete piano music of the Jewish-Italian composer Niccolò Castiglioni (1932-1996) performed by the foremost Castiglioni specialist: Alfonso Alberti. Highly esteemed by György Ligeti and Pierre Boulez, enthusiastically performed by Thomas Adès, Claudio Abbado and Jöelle Leandre, Castiglioni is one the most tender and refreshing compositional voices ever to emerge from Italy.