Duo Pianistico di Firenze
The accomplished piano virtuosi ‘Duo Pianistico di Firenze’, invited to San Francisco as part of the annual Salkind piano duo festival, will grace our upper gallery with a special performance. Sara Bartolucci and Rodolfo Alessandrini formed The Florence Piano Duo in 1990, and quickly became one of the most original and eclectic duos of recent generations. They have since won important International Competitions and performed in Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, Poland and U.S.A.
Their extensive repertoire includes composers of all types and of all historical periods. They have played over 170 works in public with more than 50 first performances. They are also famous for their own transcriptions, like all which can be heard this evening. Their Radio and Television recordings are numerous: they have realized the first world recording of the “Manifesto of Futurist Music” by F. B. Pratella (CD – Radio 2 Music, Mudima, CH), and recently they recorded the complete 4 hands work by Anton Rubinstein in 3 CDs for Brilliant Classics. They have published important Urtext 4 hands scores for the publishers Carisch and Schott, and they are the editors of one of the largest publishing projects: the Four Hands Editions (MAP), a collection of the most important Nineteenth Century piano duo works.
After graduating “Magna cum Laude” in Florence, they specialized in Fortepiano and Romantic Piano with Stefano Fiuzzi at the International Piano Academy of Imola, receiving the honorary title of “Master”. They are also the artistic directors of the prestigious “Muzio Clementi” Piano Competition in Italy.
To view the programme for the evening, please click on the link for the brochure (below right).
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