Bruno Canino

pianist

Italy

bruno.canino@tiscali.it

Participou do “I Concurso Internacional de Piano
de Santa Catarina” (2010), como membro do Júri
www.concursopiano-sc.com.br

Bruno Canino was born in Naples. He studied piano at the Conservatory of Naples with Vincenzo Vitale. He received diplomas in piano and composition from Enzo Calace and Bruno Bettinelli in Milan.

He performed as soloist and chamber musician in the most important concerto rooms and in the most important festivals in Europe, America, Australia, Japan and China.

He has had piano duo with Antonio Ballista for 50 years and has been a member of the “Trio di Milano” for 40 years. As chamber musician, he has worked with renowned musicians such as Salvatore Accardo, Uto Ughi, Lynn Harrell, Itzhak Perlman, Victoria Mullova, Pierre Amoyal.

He was artistic director of the Giovine Orchestra Genovese of the “Campus Internazionale di Musica”, in Latina. Between 1999 and 2001 he was the chief of the music section of the Venice Biennial.

He participated in several projects with Pierre Boulez, Luciano Berio, Karl-Heinz Stockhausen, György Ligeti, Bruno Maderna, Luigi Nono and Sylvano Bussotti, among others.

Canino has made first presentations of several works of contemporary composers. Under the direction of Abbado, Muti, Chailly, Sawallisch, Berio, Boulez, he has played with orchestras such as the Philharmonic Orchestra La Scala, in Milan, Santa Cecília in Rome, Philharmonic Orchestra of Berlin, Philharmonic of New York, Orchestra of Philadelphia and the National Orchestra of France.

He has been a piano teacher for 24 years at the Milan Conservatory, and for 11 years has taught master classes of piano and modern chamber music at Music Hochschule of Bern. Currently he has been teaching chamber music in Madrid.

He is frequently invited as member of the jury of several important competitions of chamber music (Bolzano, Terni, Santander, London, Maryland, Graz, Vienna, Zurich, Leipzig, Moscow, Normandie, etc.)
He has recorded several CDs such as Goldberg Variations by Johann Sebastian Bach, the complete works for piano by Alfredo Casella Stradivarius. Currently he is recording the complete works by Claude Debussy for piano.

As a writer, he published in 1997 “Vademacum per il pianista da camera” edited by Passigli.