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Maurizio Zanini
A pianist and a conductor (his most recent work includes concerts with the Verdi Orchestra in Milano, the Philharmonic in Turin, The Padua and Veneto Orchestra, the EAOSS, Musical Afternoons, and the national symphonic orchestras in Malta and Ankara), Maurizio Zanini won in 1986 the First Prize at the “Dino Ciani” International Competition, also being awarded the Oscar of the Critics “Maschera d'argento”. In the twenty years that have gone by since these important achievements he has held concerts as a soloist and also with orchestras, greeted enthusiastically by the international press, that compared him to Rudolf Serkin for his musical lucidity and the exciting range of timbre ( The Indipendent ), Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli and Maurizio Pollini ( Diapason ). Today he presents a poetic re-visitation of the world of childhood with Schumann's Kinderszenen and Chick Corea's Children's Song, a series of 20 short pieces that Zanini «compared to Corea, purifies of all jazz influences revealing a continuity with the poetry of Schumann's Scenes from Childhood and Debussy's Children's Corner y» ( Musica ).
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