Nazzareno Carusi
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Nazzareno Carusi is an Italian pianist. He studied under Alexis Weissenberg
and Victor Merzhanov
.
, Abruzzo
.
In 1993 he began teaching as the youngest assistant of Viktor Merzhanov. In 1994 he was one of the winners of the Italian National Competition to become Faculty member in the Italian State Conservatories of Music. Currently he teaches chamber music in the Faculty of "G. Tartini" State Conservatory of Music in Trieste.
From September 2001 Carusi has been Artist in residence
at the Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago.
In April 2003 he made his debut at New York's Carnegie Hall
for the IAF Concert Series.
In July 2005, in Italy, he made his debut with the strings' ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
(Philharmonische Camerata Berlin).
In February 2006 he made his debut at Milan's Teatro La Scala
, where he has played with I Solisti della Scala in a sold out chamber music recital.
of Milan, Carnegie Hall
of New York
, the Téatro Colón of Buenos Aires
, the Los Angeles
's Herbert Zipper Hall, the Toronto
's Wenston Recital Hall and Jane Mallet Theatre, the Lugano
's Music Weeks, the Jewel Box Series and the Performing Arts Series of Chicago
, the Stresa
's Music Weeks, the Sala Verdi in Milan
, the Paris' Salle Cortot, Luxembourg's Radio Auditorium, Milan's Serate Musicali, the Teatro Olimpico
in Vicenza
, the Politeama Rossetti of Trieste
, the Politeama Garibaldi of Palermo
, Budapest
's Radio Auditorium, Rachmaninoff Hall at Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, the Sala América in Santiago (Chile), the Téatro del Libertador in Córdoba (Argentina) and the Meb Sura Hall of Ankara.
He founded I Solisti della Scala Trio with the oboist Francesco Di Rosa and the clarinetist Fabrizio Meloni, first solo parts of the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala of Milan. The ensemble tours worldwide and has been beautifully recensed by The Washington Post.
exclusive artist.
He has recorded for RAI - Italian National Broadcasting Corporation, the Swiss-German Radio of Lucerne, the WFMT USA Classical Fine Arts Radio Station of Chicago, the CHIN International RadioTelevision of Ottawa, the CFRB Radio and the Rogers and CHIN Television of Toronto, the TeleLatino TV in Montréal, the Turkish National and the Greek National Broadcasting Corporations.
In June 2006 the Italian most important music magazine Amadeus has published his recording of the two Sonatas op. 120
for piano and clarinet by Brahms
with Fabrizio Meloni.
In September 2006 the PonyCanyon Inc. in Tokyo has published his recordings of some works of Poulenc, Fauré and Montanari with the Canadian soprano Karine, included in her crossover album 'Bolero'.
In January 2007 the same magazine has released his recording of Nine Sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti Live in Chicago and in 2008 will release the recording of the Franz Liszt's Malédiction for piano and orchestra with the strings' ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
(Philharmonische Camerata Berlin).
He has been awarded with the Alexis Weissenberg Award 1999 in Engelberg (Switzerland) by the Bulgarian pianist himself.
The Italian Junior Chamber awarded him with the 2004 TOYP Italia Prize for the Culture.
Alexis Weissenberg
-Early life and career:Born into a Jewish family in Sofia, Weissenberg began taking piano lessons at the age of three from Pancho Vladigerov. He gave his first public performance at the age of eight. After escaping to what was then Palestine in 1945, where he studied under Leo Kestenberg, he went...
and Victor Merzhanov
Victor Merzhanov
-Biography:Studied at Tambov Musical College with Solomon Starikov and Alexander Poltoratsky. Between 1936-1941 he studied at the Moscow Conservatory in the classes of Samuil Feinberg and Alexander Goedicke , graduating with distinction....
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Biography
Nazzareno Carusi was born in CelanoCelano
Celano is a town and comune in the Province of L'Aquila, central Italy, east of Rome by rail.-Geography:Celano rises on the top of a hill in the territory of Marsica, below the mountain range of Sirente. It faces the valley of Fucino, once filled by the large Fucine Lake, which was drained during...
, Abruzzo
Abruzzo
Abruzzo is a region in Italy, its western border lying less than due east of Rome. Abruzzo borders the region of Marche to the north, Lazio to the west and south-west, Molise to the south-east, and the Adriatic Sea to the east...
.
In 1993 he began teaching as the youngest assistant of Viktor Merzhanov. In 1994 he was one of the winners of the Italian National Competition to become Faculty member in the Italian State Conservatories of Music. Currently he teaches chamber music in the Faculty of "G. Tartini" State Conservatory of Music in Trieste.
From September 2001 Carusi has been Artist in residence
Artist in residence
Artist-in-residence programs and other residency opportunities allow visiting artists to stay and work so that they may apply singular focus to their art practice....
at the Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago.
In April 2003 he made his debut at New York's 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....
for the IAF Concert Series.
In July 2005, in Italy, he made his debut with the strings' ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
The Berlin Philharmonic, German: , formerly Berliner Philharmonisches Orchester , is an orchestra based in Berlin, Germany. In 2006, a group of ten European media outlets voted the Berlin Philharmonic number three on a list of "top ten European Orchestras", after the Vienna Philharmonic and the...
(Philharmonische Camerata Berlin).
In February 2006 he made his debut at Milan's Teatro La Scala
La Scala
La Scala , is a world renowned opera house in Milan, Italy. The theatre was inaugurated on 3 August 1778 and was originally known as the New Royal-Ducal Theatre at La Scala...
, where he has played with I Solisti della Scala in a sold out chamber music recital.
Concerts
Among the Institutions where he has performed are the Teatro La ScalaLa Scala
La Scala , is a world renowned opera house in Milan, Italy. The theatre was inaugurated on 3 August 1778 and was originally known as the New Royal-Ducal Theatre at La Scala...
of Milan, 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....
of New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, the Téatro Colón of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
, the Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
's Herbert Zipper Hall, the Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
's Wenston Recital Hall and Jane Mallet Theatre, the Lugano
Lugano
Lugano is a city of inhabitants in the city proper and a total of over 145,000 people in the agglomeration/city region, in the south of Switzerland, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, which borders Italy...
's Music Weeks, the Jewel Box Series and the Performing Arts Series of Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
, the Stresa
Stresa
Stresa is a town and comune of about 5,000 inhabitants on the shores of the Lago Maggiore in the region of Piedmont, northern Italy; it is situated on the road and rail routes to the Simplon pass, about 90 km north-west of Milan. Since the early 20th century, the main source of income has been the...
's Music Weeks, the Sala Verdi in Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
, the Paris' Salle Cortot, Luxembourg's Radio Auditorium, Milan's Serate Musicali, the Teatro Olimpico
Teatro Olimpico
The Teatro Olimpico is a theatre in Vicenza, northern Italy: constructed in 1580-1585, it is the oldest surviving enclosed theatre in the world. The theatre was the final design by the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, Renaissance, and was not completed until after his death...
in Vicenza
Vicenza
Vicenza , a city in north-eastern Italy, is the capital of the eponymous province in the Veneto region, at the northern base of the Monte Berico, straddling the Bacchiglione...
, the Politeama Rossetti of Trieste
Trieste
Trieste is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is situated towards the end of a narrow strip of land lying between the Adriatic Sea and Italy's border with Slovenia, which lies almost immediately south and east of the city...
, the Politeama Garibaldi of Palermo
Palermo
Palermo is a city in Southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Province of Palermo. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old...
, Budapest
Budapest
Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...
's Radio Auditorium, Rachmaninoff Hall at Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, the Sala América in Santiago (Chile), the Téatro del Libertador in Córdoba (Argentina) and the Meb Sura Hall of Ankara.
He founded I Solisti della Scala Trio with the oboist Francesco Di Rosa and the clarinetist Fabrizio Meloni, first solo parts of the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala of Milan. The ensemble tours worldwide and has been beautifully recensed by The Washington Post.
Recordings
Since January 2008 he is an EMIEMI
The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...
exclusive artist.
He has recorded for RAI - Italian National Broadcasting Corporation, the Swiss-German Radio of Lucerne, the WFMT USA Classical Fine Arts Radio Station of Chicago, the CHIN International RadioTelevision of Ottawa, the CFRB Radio and the Rogers and CHIN Television of Toronto, the TeleLatino TV in Montréal, the Turkish National and the Greek National Broadcasting Corporations.
In June 2006 the Italian most important music magazine Amadeus has published his recording of the two Sonatas op. 120
Clarinet Sonatas (Brahms)
The Clarinet Sonatas, Op. 120, Nos. 1 and 2 are a pair of works written for clarinet and piano by the Romantic composer Johannes Brahms. They were written in 1894 and are dedicated to the clarinetist Richard Mühlfeld. The sonatas stem from a period in Brahms’s life where he “discovered” the beauty...
for piano and clarinet by Brahms
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...
with Fabrizio Meloni.
In September 2006 the PonyCanyon Inc. in Tokyo has published his recordings of some works of Poulenc, Fauré and Montanari with the Canadian soprano Karine, included in her crossover album 'Bolero'.
In January 2007 the same magazine has released his recording of Nine Sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti Live in Chicago and in 2008 will release the recording of the Franz Liszt's Malédiction for piano and orchestra with the strings' ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
The Berlin Philharmonic, German: , formerly Berliner Philharmonisches Orchester , is an orchestra based in Berlin, Germany. In 2006, a group of ten European media outlets voted the Berlin Philharmonic number three on a list of "top ten European Orchestras", after the Vienna Philharmonic and the...
(Philharmonische Camerata Berlin).
Awards
He has won the first Prize at the "Réncontres Internationales de Piano 1995" in Paris, at the "NFMC 1993 (duo)" in Buffalo, USA, at six National Italian Piano Competitions. He won also the Third Prize at the "Luis Sigall International Piano Competition 1992" in Viña del Mar (Chile).He has been awarded with the Alexis Weissenberg Award 1999 in Engelberg (Switzerland) by the Bulgarian pianist himself.
The Italian Junior Chamber awarded him with the 2004 TOYP Italia Prize for the Culture.