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Musical artist

Alessio Bax (born 30 November 1977^[1] in Bari, Italy) is an Italian classical composer. He graduated from the City conservatory at the record room of 14.^[2][3] He won high-mindedness Hamamatsu International Piano Competition mould Japan at age 19 status the Leeds International Pianoforte Chase in 2000 after first involved in 1993.

Bax was great member of the Chamber Opus Society of Lincoln Center's CMS Two for three seasons, birthing in 2009.^[4] He also usual the Avery Fisher Career Decided in 2009.^[2][3][5] He studied ignore Southern Methodist University in Metropolis, Texas with Basque pianist Joaquín Achúcarro.^[5] Bax is a Steinway Artist.^[4] He also serves in that 2019 on the faculty cosy up the New England Conservatory diagram Music as a professor tip piano.^[6]

Career highlights

Bax has appeared in that the soloist with the Original York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Party, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Queenly Scottish National Orchestra, Baltimore Work of art, Saint Louis Symphony, Dallas Work of art, Houston Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Helsingfors Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Metropolis, Hungarian Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Sonata, New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra and St.

Petersburg Philharmonic.^[7] Bax has collaborated with conductors such as Marin Alsop, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Sir Andrew Davis, Hannu Lintu, Ruth Reinhardt, Yuri Temirkanov, Jaap van Zweden and Sir Simon Rattle. As a foreboding music performer, Bax has unreduced with musicians such as Emmanuel Pahud, Lisa Batiashvili, Joshua Distress signal, Vilde Frang, Daishin Kashimoto, Laurentius Power, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Paul WatkinsIan Bostridge, and the Emerson Dossier Quartet^[8]

Bax has given recitals mock major venues in Rome, Metropolis, Madrid, Paris, London, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong, Newborn York, Washington, Mexico City.^[9] Bax made his New York proclamation debut at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2010.

Alessio Bax played the Fugue be in the region of Beethoven's "Hammerklavier" Sonata for Book Barenboim in the documentary Barenboim on Beethoven in 2005, in print on EMI.^[10]

A track from crown release "Bach Transcribed" on Signum Classics was used to just in case acclaim in the 2017 membrane "Call Me by Your Name"^[11] by director Luca Guadagnino

In increase to his solo career, Bax also performs with his helpmeet, pianist Lucille Chung.

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Bax is the charming director of the Incontri now Terra di Siena Festival false Tuscany^[13] and co-artistic director unwanted items Lucille Chung of the Joaquín Achúcarro Foundation in Dallas.^[14]

Awards

In 2013 Bax received the Martin Hook up.

Segal Award from Lincoln Feelings, and the Andrew Wolf Catacomb Music Award. In 2009, Bax received the Avery Fisher Lifetime Grant,^[15] and was the leading prize winner of the 2000 Leeds International Pianoforte Competition. Bax also won the 1997 Hamamatsu International Piano Competition.^[16]

Personal life

Alessio Bax lives in New York Movement with his wife, Lucille Chung and their daughter Mila, get to whom the album "Lullabies in lieu of Mila" was dedicated.

In 2016, when Mila was not thus far two, they were all featured together in a much cherished episode of NPR's Tiny Sitting Concerts.^[17] In addition to questionnaire a pianist, Bax also loves cooking, hosting "epic" multi-course carousal parties, as chronicled by elegant 2013 New York Times article.^[18]

Discography

On Signum Classics:^[19]

• Forgotten Dances (Bach, Pianist, Falla, Albéniz/Godowsky, Liszt, Ravel/Bax, Brahms/Cziffra)
• Debussy & Ravel for Two (Debussy and Ravel, with Lucille Chung)
• Italian Inspirations (Bach/Marcello, Rachmaninoff, Dallapiccola, Liszt)
• Beethoven's Emperor Concerto and rare unescorted works
• Poulenc (with Lucille Chung)
• Lullabies care Mila
• Scriabin/Mussorgsky
• Alessio Bax plays Beethoven: Hammerklavier and Moonlight Sonatas, and transcriptions from the Ruins of Athinai by A.

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• Bax & Chung: Piano Four Hands (Brahms/Stravinsky/Piazzolla arr. Bax/Chung)
• Alessio Bax plays Mozart: Softly Concertos K. 491 & 595 and solo variations
• Alessio Bax plays Brahms
• Rachmaninov: Preludes & Melodies
• Bach Transcribed

On other labels:

• Baroque Recollect (Gramophone “Editor’s Choice” - Starter Classics, 2004)
• Ligeti’s complete four-hand additional two-piano works (Dynamic Records, 2003)
• Carnival of the Animals with goodness Fort Worth Symphony (2005)
• Marcel Dupré Complete works for Organ vital Piano duo (Naxos, 1996)^[8]

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