Alessio Bax

After graduating brilliantly from the Conservatory at the age of 14,, he then received an Honours Diploma from the Chigiana in Siena, and a scholarship that allowed him to improve his knowledge in the USA with Jaoquin Achucarro. Still not twenty years old, he won the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition in Japan. Since then he has won innumerable awards at international competitions, among them Leeds, in 2000, which provided him with an opportunity to play with the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Simon Rattle. He now performs as a soloist with the London Philharmonic and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tokyo Symphony, l’Orchestre National de Lille, the Matav Hungarian Symphony Orchestra, the Huston Symphony and all the most important Italian orchestras. His CDs, recorded since 2004 exclusively for Warner Classic, have been selected by Gramophone and Classical FM Magazine. His most recent recording, with the unabridged version for piano and orchestra by Robert and Clara Schumann, was made with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Larry Foster. Alessio Bax teaches at the Meadows School of the Arts at Dallas University, often returning to Europe. In July 2007 he received an invitation to the Verbier Festival and now he inaugurates this 87th concert season of the Filarmonica Laudamo with a recital of music by Brahms and Rachmaninov.

monday october 15th 2007 at 9 p.m.
The Vittorio Emanuele Theatre

ALESSIO BAX
piano

JOHANNES BRAHMS
4 Ballate op. 10
1. in re min. (Andante)
2. in re magg. (Andante)
3. Intermezzo, si min.
4. in si magg. (Andante con moto)

28 Variazioni in la min. op. 35
sopra un tema di Niccolò Paganini
(dal Capriccio op. 1 n. 24)

SERGEJ RACHMANINOV
Preludio in do diesis min. op 3 n. 2
Preludio in sol bem. magg. op. 23 n. 10
Preludio in sol magg. op. 32 n. 5
Preludio in sol diesis min. op. 32 n. 12
Preludio in si min. op. 32 n. 10
Preludio in si bem. magg. op. 23 n. 2

MAURICE RAVEL
La Valse