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Listen to music
played by Emanuele Arciuli
Reviews
All music selections
are partial clips except where noted.
Selected pieces:
Maurice Ravel
Concerto
in G
Szymanovski
Sheherezade
da "Masques"
(complete)
Franz Liszt
Sonetto del Petrarca 104
unedited version
John Adams
China Gates (1977) (complete)
Frederic Rzewski
Winnsboro cotton mill blues
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"In
the hands of the ardent Emanuele Arciuli everything
has been conceived not as your conveniently neutral
pitch-generator and theory tester but for the
piano as its glorious self. "
Richard
Buell, The Boston Globe
Emanuele
Arciuli has, over recent years, earned an outstanding
reputation as a champion of Twentieth Century's
Music, particularly for Vienna School and American
contemporary music. His collaboration with such
composers as G. Crumb, F. Rzewski, A.J. Kernis
and J. Hoffman has won him their enthusiastic
approbation). He studied with M.Marvulli, V.Vitale,
L. Fleisher, P. Bordoni and P.Rattalino, amongst
others.
He performs regularly for prestigious concert
societies and major orchestras in Italy and throughout
Europe. He has been presented in recital by the
Serate Musicali di Milano and Società dei
Concerti di Milano, Fondazione Cini di Venezia,
Sagra Malatestiana di Rimini, Unione Musicale
di Torino, and has appeared as soloist with orchestras
including Orchestra Sinfonica "Verdi"
di Milano, Orchestra Regionale del Lazio, Hungarian
Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra della Radiotelevisione
della Svizzera Italiana. He'll debut on November
at Teatro San Carlo in Naples.
His international debut took place in Lugano,
Switzerland, and was broadcast live by RTSI Concerti
Euroradio in fourteen countries). In June of 1998
he made his American debut at University of Cincinnati
(Corbett Auditorium University of Cincinnati)
for the prestigious Festival Ninety Eight with
great success. He was immediately re-invited for
the following year's festival, and for other recitals
(played in Denver, Philadelphia, Boston and invited
also for two new tournées on 2001).
His repertory ranges from Bach to the most recent
contemporary music and - besides the Twentieth
Century - favors Beethoven and Liszt. And just
with Liszt he has opened the '96/'97 Season of
Chopin Society in Bern, premiering the unpublished
original version of "Années de Pelerinage"
Deuxiéme Année-Italie, whose manuscript
he discovered in Weimar.
He records for Stradivarius label. His CDs have
received numerous awards and have garnered praise
from the international press. His discography
includes the complete piano works of Berg and
Webern, the original version of the second book
of Liszt's Années de Pelerinage, the piano
concerto of Bruno Maderna and an anthology of
American piano music (Americans!). Recently was
released another cd (with Hans Eisler music) by
Chandos label.
During the current concert season, he will make
debuts in Berlin (Philharmonic) at the Berliner
Festvochen and Teatro San Carlo in Naples, and
he'll be having two tournées in USA. On
June 2001. In November 2002 he premiered to great
acclaim "Round Midnight Variations"
(at Columbia University) an important collection
of variations on the famous Thelonios Monk theme,
composed for him by major American musician (amongst
other Babbit, Bolcom, Crumb, Daugherty, Harbison,
Hoffman, Kernis, Torke, Rzewski). He teaches at
Conservatory of Bari and is Guest Faculty at University
of Cincinnati.
Emanuele Arciuli's appearance at the 2002 Miami
International Piano Festival marked his Debut
in South Florida. On March 6th, 2003 he will collaborate
with Ilya Itin on two piano repertoire and on
March 9th, 2003 will introduce Thelonious Monk’s
“Round Midnight Variations” to Florida
audiences for the first time.
To contact
Emanuele Arciuli, visit his web site:
www.emanuelearciuli.com
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