Francesco Piemontesi

From Alfred Brendel, one of his mentors, Francesco Piemontesi says he has learned the “love of detail” and, indeed, one recognizes in him that rare combination of virtuosity and intellectual vivacity that makes his every interpretation so engaging. He is renowned for his refined interpretations of the music of Mozart and the early Romantic era. However, thanks to his prodigious technique and a deep sensitivity, he feels just as comfortable playing the late romantic as well as the early 20th-century repertoire.

Born in Locarno in 1983 and Berliner by adoption, Piemontesi studied with Arie Vardi in Hannover, before working with Alexis Weissenberg, Mitsuko Uchida and Cécile Ousset. Third prize at the Reine Élisabeth Competition in Brussels in 2007, Piemontesi also received the Fellowship from the Borletti-Buitoni Trust in London and was nominated “BBC New Generation Artist”. These acknowledgements gave a decisive boost to his intense concert activity in Europe, Asia and the United States.

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