Pianist Alessio Bax is praised for creating “a ravishing listening
experience” with his lyrical playing, insightful interpretations and
dazzling facility.
First prize winner at the Leeds and Hamamatsu
international piano competitions and a 2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant
recipient, he has appeared as soloist with over 90 orchestras, including
the London and Royal Philharmonic orchestras, Dallas and Houston
symphonies, the NHK Symphony in Japan, St. Petersburg Philharmonic with
Yuri Temirkanov, and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra with Sir
Simon Rattle.
This season, Bax returns as soloist with the St.
Petersburg Philharmonic under Temirkanov for the opening concert of the
St. Petersburg Winter Festival, and collaborates with Finnish conductor
Pietari Inkinen in Denmark.
He performs solo recitals in New York,
Boston, Washington, D.C., Saint Paul, and Atlanta, as well as in
Venezuela, South Korea and Japan. Bax makes his Carnegie Hall debut with
cellist Sol Gabetta, with whom he appeared last season at the Kennedy
Center.
He also returns to the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln
Center and tours with violinist Chee-Yun as well as his frequent duo
partner, pianist Lucille Chung.
October marks the release of Alessio Bax plays Brahms on the Signum
Records label.
His most recent album,
Rachmaninov: Preludes and Melodies, was selected as a “Critics’ Choice 2011” by American Record Guide. Also in his acclaimed discography are Bach Transcribed and
Baroque Reflections
(Warner Classics, Gramophone “Editor’s Choice”). This past summer, he
performed and recorded Mozart’s Piano Concertos K. 491 and K. 595 with
the Southbank Sinfonia in London for release in 2013.
Among the
esteemed conductors with whom Bax has worked are Marin Alsop, Sergiu
Commissiona, Alexander Dimitriev, Vernon Handley, Jacques Lacombe,
Jonathan Nott, Vasily Petrenko, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Dimitry
Sitkovetsky and Christopher Warren-Greene. He performed Beethoven’s
“Hammerklavier” Sonata for maestro Daniel Barenboim in the PBS-TV
documentary Barenboim on Beethoven: Masterclass, available as a DVD box
set on the EMI label.
Festival appearances have included London's International Piano Series
(Queen Elizabeth Hall), Verbier in Switzerland, England's Aldeburgh and
Bath festivals, and the Ruhr Klavierfestival, BeethovenFest and Schloss
Elmau in Germany.
He has performed recitals at major music halls in
Rome, Milan, Madrid, Mexico City, Paris, London, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Seoul,
Hong Kong, New York and Washington, DC.
He is Artistic Director at
Joaquín Achúcarro Foundation .
At
age 14, Bax graduated with top honors from the conservatory of his
hometown, Bari, Italy, and after further studies in Europe moved to the
United States in 1994. A Steinway artist, he resides in New York City
with his wife, pianist Lucille Chung.
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