Occupation(s) Pianist Genres Classical music Name Paolo Restani | Website forumartists.com Years active 1983–present | |
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Born August 2, 1967 (age 56)
La Spezia, Italy ( 1967-08-02 ) Albums Handel Variations, Amazing Piano, Piano Quintets, Piano Variations Similar People John Field, Gerhard Oppitz, Bruno Canino, John O'Conor, Alfredo Casella | ||
Paolo restani plays liszt rhapsodie espagnole s 254
Paolo Restani (born 2 August 1967, La Spezia) is an Italian classical pianist.
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- Paolo restani plays liszt rhapsodie espagnole s 254
- Liszt concerto no 2 riccardo muti conductor paolo restani piano
- Education
- Career
- References
Liszt concerto no 2 riccardo muti conductor paolo restani piano
Education
Piano-pupil of Vincenzo Vitale (a renowned representative of the Naples piano-school) since 1984, in the following he perfected his interpretative manner with Gerhard Oppitz at Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, Peter Lang at Mozarteum Salzburg, Gustav Kuhn, Piero Rattalino, Aldo Ciccolini, Nikita Magaloff and Vladimir Ashkenazy. In addition he studied composition with Paolo Arcà and Bruno Bettinelli.
Career
After his debut in 1983 in recital at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, he was invited to the most prestigious theatres in Italy. Among several successes in this period, a standout one was the concert at Sala Verdi in Milan for the Serate Musicali: in January 1987 he was invited to replace Alexis Weissenberg with only a few hours notice, and he performed a programme including Eroica Variations by Beethoven and the 12 Etudes d’Exécution Trascendante by Liszt.
During his almost thirty-year international concert career, his own solo-participations with Europe, America and Australia orchestras are innumerable. Among the conductors: Roberto Abbado, Gerd Albrecht, Vladimir Delman, Claus Peter Flor, Lu Jia, Gerhard Korsten, Julian Kovatchv, Gustav Kuhn, Yoel Levi, John Nelson, John Neschling, Daniel Oren. In January 2008, at the invitation of Yuri Temirkanov, he participated in the XVII International Festival Christmas Musical Meeting in Palmira of the North in Saint Petersburg. Under the baton of Riccardo Muti he appeared in June 2004 with Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala in the Liszt’s Second Piano Concerto and, in 2008, still conducted by Muti, he was soloist in the symphonic production of Lélio ou Le Retour à la Vie op. 14b by Berlioz together with Gérard Depardieu, the Orchestra Luigi Cherubini, Orchestra Giovanile Italiana, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor.
Among the various international appreciations he is awarded with, are to be pointed out those gained in South America (where he plays every year): in 2005 the Association of Argentina Critics recognized him as the best interpreter of the year, and, in 2011, with the Quartetto d’archi della Scala as the best ensemble.
Beside his piano soloist activity, Paolo Restani dedicates to chamber music and theatre performances. Among his partners: Carla Fracci, Sylvie Guillelme, Laurent Hilaire, Enrico Maria Salerno, Simona Marchini, Mariano Rigillo, Gottfried Wagner. In partnership with Chiara Muti, in the last seasons, he created three original musical plays on the life of Mozart, the relationships between Richard Wagner and Ludwig II, on Rachmaninov and Gogol.
His extensive repertoire ranges from Bach to present-day composers. His particular preference for the Romantic and 19th-century repertoire makes him associated with most works by Field, Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky, Rachmaninov, and Casella. Of particular note is his predilection for the music of Liszt, of which he is considered one of the most authoritative interpreters.