Emanuele Arciuli

Emanuele Arciuli (born June 26, 1965) is an Italian classical pianist.

Arciuli was born in Galatone and received his diploma from the Conservatory in Bari, where he also teaches. After his diploma, he continued his piano studies with Vincenzo Vitale, Paolo Bordoni and Leon Fleisher and attended masterclasses with Gyorgy Sandor, Michel Dalberto, and Maurizio Pollini. He gave numerous recitals in prestigious italian concert houses such as Teatro San Carlo (Naples), Teatro La Fenice (Venice) and Teatro Carlo Felice (Genova). He won numerous awards and is regularly invited to festivals throughout Europe and the U.S.

His repertoire comprises Classical Music and the Second Viennese School, his discography includes the complete piano works of Alban Berg and Anton Webern. After his american debut 1998 in Cincinnati, Arciuli dedicated much work to a fruitful collaboration with contemporary american composers and musicians. In 2002 he premiered at the Miller Theater at New York Columbia University "Round Midnight Variations", a collection on variations on the famous Thelonious Monk theme, composed for him by major american musicians (Babbitt, Bolcom, Crumb, Daugherty, Harbison, Kernis, Rzewski, Torke and others). In 2005, his recording of Crumb's "Eine kleine Mitternachtmusik" was nominated for Grammy Awards and in 2006 he won an important italian critic award for his recording of Rzewski-Adams. In 2008, he premiered with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Mario Venzago Louis Ballard's "Indiana Concerto", the only piano concerto ever written by native american composers.

External links

[http://www.emanuelearciuli.com/ Official Website]

[http://www.miamipianofest.com/artists/arciuli.html Emanuele Arciuli at Miami Piano Festival]

[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A03EED71639F932A15752C1A9649C8B63&scp=3&sq=arciuli&st=cse Round Midnight Variations (New York Times)]

[http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/01/arts/music/01eman.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=arciuli&st=cse&oref=slogin Music Review (New York Times)]