Enrico Elisi
Encyclopedia
Enrico Elisi is an Italian
pianist
from Bologna
, Italy
.
Enrico Elisi regularly performs to acclaim throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. In Italy he has appeared in prestigious venues such as La Fenice Theatre, Venice
; Palazzo Vecchio
, Florence
; Bibbiena Theatre, Mantua
; Teatro Comunale Luciano Pavarotti, Modena
; Teatro Comunale and Sala Bossi, Bologna
. Recent North American performances include recitals at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall
, and the New York Public Library
. In Asia, he performed in South Korea
(Seoul
, Busan
, Daegu
), Taiwan
(Taipei
, Tainan
), and China
(Shanghai
, Xiamen
, Hangzhou
, Fouzhou, Xinchang). Elisi has also given recitals in Germany
(Hamburg
, Bonn
, Wolfsburg
, Kiel
, Heiligenhafen
), Slovak Republic (Piešťany
), Spain
(Gijon
, Candas
), and Peru
(Lima
).
Over the last seasons, Elisi has appeared with the Florence Symphony, Italy; Orchestra Classica de Porto, Portugal; Bay Atlantic Symphony, Greeley Philharmonic, Pennsylvania Centre Orchestra, Penn State Philharmonic, Penn's Woods Orchestra, UNLV Chamber Orchestra and Johns Hopkins Symphony Orchestra, USA. He debuted as soloist/conductor with the Green Valley Festival Chamber Orchestra (2007).
Among Elisi’s awards are top prizes in the Venice Competition and the Oporto International Competition—which led to a concerto broadcast for Portuguese national TV. After winning seven first prizes in national competitions in Italy and a number of other top prizes, Elisi received the La Gesse Foundation Fellowship and performed in Toulouse
, France
, and New York’s Weill Recital Hall.
Via Classica, a German radio station, offered a two-hour broadcast of Elisi’s live recital with an interview (2008). Additional radio broadcasts include Montebeni Classica FM (Italy), WCLV Cleveland, UNC, KCNV Nevada Public Radio, and KGCS (USA). He also appeared in a TV broadcast for WPSU.
An active chamber musician, Elisi has performed at the Taos
and Ravinia Festivals, as well as other US venues and has given chamber recitals in China
, Korea
, France
, and Peru
. He collaborated with principal players from the Baltimore, Chicago, and American Symphony Orchestras.
As a champion of new music, Elisi has commissioned works from composers of many nationalities. He premiered Paul Chihara
’s Images, at Weill Hall, Carnegie Hall and has subsequently recorded it for Albany Records
. His vision for contemporary music led to his founding and directing an international composition competition, Arioso Musica Domani, (2010).
In Nevada
, Elisi has been the artistic director of the Piano Institute of the Las Vegas Music Festival as well as the co-founder/artistic director of the Green Valley Chamber Music Festival. The American Liszt Society Bicentennial Festival (Athens, GA) invited Elisi to perform as the President of the Pennsylvania Chapter he established in 2010.
Elisi joined the piano faculty of the Eastman School of Music
as an Associate Professor in 2011, having previously taught at the Pennsylvania State University
and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
. He has been a frequent guest teacher at the Accademia delle Marche in Italy and held a guest professorship at the China Zhejiang Art School in Hangzhou
. Elisi has given master classes and performances at the University of British Columbia
, Canada
; National Conservatory of Lima, Peru
; Taipei National University of the Arts
, Taiwan
; Pusan National, Kyungsung, Catholic, and Keimyung Universities, South Korea
. At Leon Fleisher
’s invitation Elisi performed at the World Piano Pedagogy Conference in a joint recital with his mentor (2007).
Elisi has been a jury member for the Tremplin International and the finals of the Concours de Musique du Canada, the Iowa Piano Competition, the Yale Gordon Competition (Peabody), NMTA, MSMTA, NVMTA, and VMTA.
In his native Italy, Elisi studied with Giuseppe Fricelli in Bologna
and earned diplomas from the Conservatory of Florence (summa cum laude) and the world-renowned Incontri col Maestro International Piano Academy of Imola, where he worked extensively with Lazar Berman
, Boris Petrushansky
and Alexander Lonquich
as well as Joaquín Achúcarro
and Franco Scala. Elisi earned MM and DMA degrees with distinction as a student of Leon Fleisher
at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University while serving as his assistant. He also took part in master classes with Maurizio Pollini
, Jörg Demus
, Murray Perahia
, Louis Lortie
, Peter Lang
, Sergio Perticaroli, and Rudolf Firkušný
.
Elisi’s latest CD, Mozart Piano Works, has been released in 2011.
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
pianist
Pianist
A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...
from Bologna
Bologna
Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,...
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
.
Enrico Elisi regularly performs to acclaim throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. In Italy he has appeared in prestigious venues such as La Fenice Theatre, Venice
Venice
Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...
; Palazzo Vecchio
Palazzo Vecchio
The Palazzo Vecchio is the town hall of Florence, Italy. This massive, Romanesque, crenellated fortress-palace is among the most impressive town halls of Tuscany...
, Florence
Florence
Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
; Bibbiena Theatre, Mantua
Mantua
Mantua is a city and comune in Lombardy, Italy and capital of the province of the same name. Mantua's historic power and influence under the Gonzaga family, made it one of the main artistic, cultural and notably musical hubs of Northern Italy and the country as a whole...
; Teatro Comunale Luciano Pavarotti, Modena
Modena
Modena is a city and comune on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy....
; Teatro Comunale and Sala Bossi, Bologna
Bologna
Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,...
. Recent North American performances include recitals at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
, and the New York Public Library
New York Public Library
The New York Public Library is the largest public library in North America and is one of the United States' most significant research libraries...
. In Asia, he performed in South Korea
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
(Seoul
Seoul
Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...
, Busan
Busan
Busan , formerly spelled Pusan is South Korea's second largest metropolis after Seoul, with a population of around 3.6 million. The Metropolitan area population is 4,399,515 as of 2010. It is the largest port city in South Korea and the fifth largest port in the world...
, Daegu
Daegu
Daegu , also known as Taegu, and officially the Daegu Metropolitan City, is a city in South Korea, the fourth largest after Seoul, Busan, and Incheon, and the third largest metropolitan area in the country with over 2.5 million residents. The city is the capital and principal city of the...
), Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
(Taipei
Taipei
Taipei City is the capital of the Republic of China and the central city of the largest metropolitan area of Taiwan. Situated at the northern tip of the island, Taipei is located on the Tamsui River, and is about 25 km southwest of Keelung, its port on the Pacific Ocean...
, Tainan
Tainan
Tainan City is a city in southern Taiwan. It is the fifth largest after New Taipei, Kaohsiung, Taichung, and Taipei. It was formerly a provincial city, and in 2010, the provincial city merged with the adjacent Tainan County to form a single special municipality. Tainan faces the Taiwan Strait in...
), and China
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
(Shanghai
Shanghai
Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...
, Xiamen
Xiamen
Xiamen , also known as Amoy , is a major city on the southeast coast of the People's Republic of China. It is administered as a sub-provincial city of Fujian province with an area of and population of 3.53 million...
, Hangzhou
Hangzhou
Hangzhou , formerly transliterated as Hangchow, is the capital and largest city of Zhejiang Province in Eastern China. Governed as a sub-provincial city, and as of 2010, its entire administrative division or prefecture had a registered population of 8.7 million people...
, Fouzhou, Xinchang). Elisi has also given recitals in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
(Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
, Bonn
Bonn
Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located in the Cologne/Bonn Region, about 25 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....
, Wolfsburg
Wolfsburg
Wolfsburg is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located on the River Aller northeast of Braunschweig , and is mainly notable as the headquarters of Volkswagen AG...
, Kiel
Kiel
Kiel is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 238,049 .Kiel is approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the north of Germany, the southeast of the Jutland peninsula, and the southwestern shore of the...
, Heiligenhafen
Heiligenhafen
Heiligenhafen is a town in the district of Ostholstein, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated on the Baltic Sea coast, opposite the island Fehmarn, approx. 60 km northeast of Lübeck, and 55 km east of Kiel.-Geography:...
), Slovak Republic (Piešťany
Pieštany
Piešťany is a town in Slovakia. It is located in the western part of the country within the Trnava Region and is the seat of its own district. It is the biggest and best known spa town in Slovakia and has around 30,000 inhabitants.-History:...
), Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
(Gijon
Gijón
Gijón , officially Gijón / Xixón, is a coastal industrial city and a municipality in the autonomous community of Asturias in Spain. Early mediaeval texts mention it as "Gigia". It was an important regional Roman city, although the area has been settled since earliest history...
, Candas
Candas
Candas is a commune in the Somme department in Picardie in northern France.-Geography:Candas is situated on the D31 and D49 crossroads, some north of Amiens.-Places of interest:*Fanchon’s windmill...
), and Peru
Peru
Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
(Lima
Lima
Lima is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, in the central part of the country, on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima...
).
Over the last seasons, Elisi has appeared with the Florence Symphony, Italy; Orchestra Classica de Porto, Portugal; Bay Atlantic Symphony, Greeley Philharmonic, Pennsylvania Centre Orchestra, Penn State Philharmonic, Penn's Woods Orchestra, UNLV Chamber Orchestra and Johns Hopkins Symphony Orchestra, USA. He debuted as soloist/conductor with the Green Valley Festival Chamber Orchestra (2007).
Among Elisi’s awards are top prizes in the Venice Competition and the Oporto International Competition—which led to a concerto broadcast for Portuguese national TV. After winning seven first prizes in national competitions in Italy and a number of other top prizes, Elisi received the La Gesse Foundation Fellowship and performed in Toulouse
Toulouse
Toulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, and New York’s Weill Recital Hall.
Via Classica, a German radio station, offered a two-hour broadcast of Elisi’s live recital with an interview (2008). Additional radio broadcasts include Montebeni Classica FM (Italy), WCLV Cleveland, UNC, KCNV Nevada Public Radio, and KGCS (USA). He also appeared in a TV broadcast for WPSU.
An active chamber musician, Elisi has performed at the Taos
Taos
Taos can meanPlaces*Taos Pueblo, a Native American pueblo, Tua-tah*Taos dialect, a dialect of the Tiwa language*Taos County, New Mexico, United States*Taos, New Mexico, a city, the county seat of Taos County, New Mexico...
and Ravinia Festivals, as well as other US venues and has given chamber recitals in China
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
, Korea
Korea
Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, and Peru
Peru
Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
. He collaborated with principal players from the Baltimore, Chicago, and American Symphony Orchestras.
As a champion of new music, Elisi has commissioned works from composers of many nationalities. He premiered Paul Chihara
Paul Chihara
Paul Seiko Chihara is an American composer.Chihara was born in Seattle, Washington in 1938. A Japanese American, he spent several years of his childhood with his family in an internment camp in Minidoka, Idaho....
’s Images, at Weill Hall, Carnegie Hall and has subsequently recorded it for Albany Records
Albany Records
Albany Records is an American classical music record label focusing particularly on contemporary classical music. It was established by Peter Kermani in 1987, and is based in Albany, New York.-External links:**...
. His vision for contemporary music led to his founding and directing an international composition competition, Arioso Musica Domani, (2010).
In Nevada
Nevada
Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...
, Elisi has been the artistic director of the Piano Institute of the Las Vegas Music Festival as well as the co-founder/artistic director of the Green Valley Chamber Music Festival. The American Liszt Society Bicentennial Festival (Athens, GA) invited Elisi to perform as the President of the Pennsylvania Chapter he established in 2010.
Elisi joined the piano faculty of the Eastman School of Music
Eastman School of Music
The Eastman School of Music is a music conservatory located in Rochester, New York. The Eastman School is a professional school within the University of Rochester...
as an Associate Professor in 2011, having previously taught at the Pennsylvania State University
Pennsylvania State University
The Pennsylvania State University, commonly referred to as Penn State or PSU, is a public research university with campuses and facilities throughout the state of Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1855, the university has a threefold mission of teaching, research, and public service...
and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
University of Nevada-Las Vegas is a public, coeducational university located in the Las Vegas suburb of Paradise, Nevada, USA. The campus is located approximately east of the Las Vegas Strip. The institution includes a Shadow Lane Campus, located just east of the University Medical Center of...
. He has been a frequent guest teacher at the Accademia delle Marche in Italy and held a guest professorship at the China Zhejiang Art School in Hangzhou
Hangzhou
Hangzhou , formerly transliterated as Hangchow, is the capital and largest city of Zhejiang Province in Eastern China. Governed as a sub-provincial city, and as of 2010, its entire administrative division or prefecture had a registered population of 8.7 million people...
. Elisi has given master classes and performances at the University of British Columbia
University of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia is a public research university. UBC’s two main campuses are situated in Vancouver and in Kelowna in the Okanagan Valley...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
; National Conservatory of Lima, Peru
Peru
Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
; Taipei National University of the Arts
Taipei National University of the Arts
The Taipei National University of the Arts is a national university at Kuandu of Beitou District, Taipei City, Taiwan. This university should not be confused with National Taiwan University of Arts at Banciao City.-History:...
, Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
; Pusan National, Kyungsung, Catholic, and Keimyung Universities, South Korea
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
. At Leon Fleisher
Leon Fleisher
Leon Fleisher is an American pianist and conductor.-Early life and studies:Fleisher was born in San Francisco, where he started studying the piano at age four...
’s invitation Elisi performed at the World Piano Pedagogy Conference in a joint recital with his mentor (2007).
Elisi has been a jury member for the Tremplin International and the finals of the Concours de Musique du Canada, the Iowa Piano Competition, the Yale Gordon Competition (Peabody), NMTA, MSMTA, NVMTA, and VMTA.
In his native Italy, Elisi studied with Giuseppe Fricelli in Bologna
Bologna
Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,...
and earned diplomas from the Conservatory of Florence (summa cum laude) and the world-renowned Incontri col Maestro International Piano Academy of Imola, where he worked extensively with Lazar Berman
Lazar Berman
Lazar Naumovich Berman was a Soviet Russian classical pianist. As a technician, Berman was extraordinary in terms of sheer evenness, control, and rhythmic panache, yet he always channeled his considerable craft toward musical ends....
, Boris Petrushansky
Boris Petrushansky
Boris Petrushansky is a Russian pianist, naturalized Italian citizen.Petrushansky started an intense intercontinental concert career at the mid-70s. After the USSR's collapse he settled in Italy.-References:...
and Alexander Lonquich
Alexander Lonquich
Alexander Lonquich is a German classical pianist and conductor.- Biography :Born in Trier.Studied with Paul Badura-Skoda, Andrzej Jasínski, and Ilonka Deckers-Küszler....
as well as Joaquín Achúcarro
Joaquín Achúcarro
Joaquín Achúcarro is a Basque Spanish classical pianist.- Biography and career :Achúcarro was born in Bilbao, Spain, in the difficult years of the Spanish post-war period. He began piano lessons at the Bilbao Conservatory and, in 1956, at the age of 13, made his concerto debut in Bilbao playing a...
and Franco Scala. Elisi earned MM and DMA degrees with distinction as a student of Leon Fleisher
Leon Fleisher
Leon Fleisher is an American pianist and conductor.-Early life and studies:Fleisher was born in San Francisco, where he started studying the piano at age four...
at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University while serving as his assistant. He also took part in master classes with Maurizio Pollini
Maurizio Pollini
Maurizio Pollini is an Italian classical pianist.- Biography and career :Pollini was born in Milan to the Italian rationalist architect Gino Pollini. Maurizio studied piano first with Carlo Lonati, until the age of 13, then with Carlo Vidusso, until he was 18...
, Jörg Demus
Jörg Demus
Jörg Demus is an Austrian pianist.At the age of six, Demus received his first piano lessons. Five years later, at the age of 11, he entered the Vienna Academy of Music, studying piano and conducting. He graduated in 1945, then 17 years old...
, Murray Perahia
Murray Perahia
Murray Perahia KBE is an American concert pianist and conductor.-Early life:Murray Perahia was born in the Bronx borough of New York City to a family of Sephardi Jewish origin. According to the biography on his Mozart piano sonatas CD, his first language was Judaeo-Spanish or, Ladino. The family...
, Louis Lortie
Louis Lortie
Louis Lortie, OC, CQ is a French-Canadian pianist. He currently lives in Berlin.He is known for his interpretation of Ravel, Chopin and Beethoven...
, Peter Lang
Peter Lang
Peter Lang is an international academic publisher with its head office in Bern, Switzerland.-Origins:It was founded 1970 in Frankfurt am Main by Swiss editor Peter Lang as Peter Lang GmbH. A 1977 development saw it transformed into Peter Lang AG, going to Bern...
, Sergio Perticaroli, and Rudolf Firkušný
Rudolf Firkusny
- Life :Born in Moravian Napajedla, Firkušný started his musical studies with the composers Leoš Janáček and Josef Suk, and the pianist Vilém Kurz. Later he studied with Alfred Cortot and Artur Schnabel. He began performing on the continent of Europe in the 1920s, and made his debuts in London in...
.
Elisi’s latest CD, Mozart Piano Works, has been released in 2011.
External links
- http://www.ariosomanagement.com, Arioso Artists Management Website
- http://www.enricoelisi.com, Enrico Elisi's Official Website
- http://www.enricoelisi.com/calendar.html, Enrico Elisi's Calendar of Events
- http://www.music.psu.edu/prospective/faculty/keyboard.html#elisi, Enrico Elisi at Penn State University
- http://www.music.psu.edu, Penn State School of Music Official Website
- http://www.psu.edu, Penn State University Official Website