In 1988 the first Worldwide Dealers' Meeting was organized. Further meetings took place in 1992, 1994, 1998, 2001, 2003 and 2005. Since 1981, Fazioli pianos have been on display at the "Musikmesse" in Frankfurt and at the Namm Show in Anaheim, California. The connections made at these events enabled Fazioli Company to cooperate with an increasing number of qualified dealers across the globe through which Fazioli pianos are available worldwide.
From 1994 Fazioli has participated every year to the NAMM
show in Anaheim (Los Angeles), the most important exhibition for music in America.
In this occasion artists, events organizers and businessmen of the music field,
regularly show a great interest on Fazioli pianos.
In 1994, through the first Chinese Dealer, Fazioli pianos reached
the Far East, at the first Shangai Music Fair edition. In November a concert grand
was sold to the Sydney Town Hall. The piano was presented in a concert in the
presence of the Australian Prime Minister, Paul Keating.
In 1995 the F308 model was presented for the first time at the NAMM SHOW. In June the company showed at the Bejiging Music Fair in China.
In 1996 in the famous Musik Vereinsal in Vienna the Fazioli
concert grand was performed (among others) from Ingeborg Baldaszti, Elisabeth
Leonskaya and Markus Schirmer.
With the co-operation of the Bracco Pharmaceutic Company of Milan a model F212
was donated to the Music Academy in Zadar, Croatia, which was destroyed by the
Balkans war.
In 1997 Umbria Jazz in Perugia, the most important Jazz Festival in Europe decided to use a Fazioli piano. In this way the most important jazz artists in the world had the possibility to know Fazioli. Martial Solal, famous jazz pianist, in an interview said he had the occasion to play the most beautiful instrument of his life.
In 1998 the success in USA was growing even more. Umbria Jazz
decided to use only Fazioli pianos also for the Winter Jazz Festival in Orvieto.
The Company purchased a 14.000 square meters of land in front of the old factory
where a new production area was going to be built.
It was also decided to build a concert hall with 200 seats with the main purpose
to test the instruments in their more representative condition.
In 1999 the request for the biggest models F278 and F308 was increasing especially from Conservatories, Music Schools and Concert Halls. The organizers of the International piano competition in Seregno (Milano) decided to use only Fazioli piano for the competition. All contestants and jury members were totally satisfied.
In 2000 the works for building the new factory were started.
A rich Chinese customer ordered a special red colour F308, called Marco Polo,
with the copy of a Canaletto Venetian painting on the inside part of the lid.
In September 2001 the production moved into the completed new area. At the end
of the year 90 pianos were reached.
In September 2001 the production moved into the completed new area. At the end of the year 90 units were reached.
In 2002 the number of pianists that become Fazioli fans was increasing as well as the number of concerts performed on Fazioli pianos. Nikolai Demidenko, Angela Hewitt, Stephen Hough, Piers Lane performed in London and Europe on Fazioli pianos. 94 units were reached, approaching even more the goal of 100 pianos per year.
In 2003 the relationship with pianist Angela Hewitt become
more active: she purchased a Fazioli piano for her new house in Perugia and started
requesting Fazioli pianos for her concert tours in America and Europe. In May
Louis Lortie performed in place of Maurizio Pollini at Carnegie Hall in New York,
using with great success a Fazioli grand.
During the same year the magazine The Economist in an article about pianos wrote
that for many pianists the Fazioli piano is the best in the world.
In September in New York in occasion of the celebration for the victims of September
11st 2001, 21 Fazioli pianos were used for the first performance of Sinfonia per
21 pianoforti from the composer and pianist Daniele Lombardi. The production reached
98 units.
In 2004 the new office area and the Fazioli Concert Hall were
completed. The 2004 registered important deliveries and the production overcame
the 100 units. Among the most important events Herbie Hancock started to use only
Fazioli pianos both for concerts and recordings.
The Fazioli Concert Hall, conceived as an ideal place where testing the instrument,
is also dedicated to concerts and recording sessions. It is the best proof of
the great Fazioli determined commitment to the promotion of his product - the
piano - and of the world to which it belongs - that of Art and Culture.
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