Persons

Alessio Bax

piano

Biography

Pianist Alessio Bax, First Prize winner at the Leeds and Hamamatsu international piano competitions, is a 2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient. He has appeared as soloist with over 100 orchestras worldwide, including the London and Royal Philharmonic orchestras, Houston Symphony, NHK Symphony in Japan, and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra with Sir Simon Rattle. Recent highlights include performances with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic under Yuri Temirkanov, Dallas Symphony under Jaap van Zweden, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra under Hans Graf, concerts at New York’s Carnegie Hall, Washington’s Kennedy Center, and with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and tours with Joshua Bell. Among festival appearances are London’s International Piano Series (Queen Elizabeth Hall), England’s Aldeburgh and Bath festivals, Switzerland’s Verbier, Germany’s Ruhr
Klavier-Festival, BeethovenFest, and Schloss Elmau, and the USA’s Bravo! Vail, Music@Menlo, and Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Fall 2014 brings the release of an all-Beethoven disc for Signum Classics. Mr. Bax’s acclaimed discography also includes Bax & Chung, featuring Stravinsky’s four-hand Pétrouchka, Mozart’s Piano Concertos K. 491 and K. 595, Alessio Bax Plays Brahms (Gramophone “Critic’s Choice”), Rachmaninov: Preludes and Melodies (American Record Guide “Critics’ Choice”), Bach Transcribed and Baroque Reflections (Gramophone “Editor’s Choice”). At age 14, he graduated with top honors from the conservatory of his hometown, Bari, Italy, and after further studies in Europe moved to the U.S. in 1994. A Steinway artist, Mr. Bax resides in New York City with his wife, pianist Lucille Chung.

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December, 2014
8:00 pm
Grand Hall:
191186, St. Petersburg, Mikhailovskaya st., 2
+7 (812) 240-01-80, +7 (812) 240-01-00
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191011, St. Petersburg, Nevsky av., 30
+7 (812) 240-01-70
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