“Clearly among the most remarkable young pianists now before the public” (Gramophone), Alessio Bax releases Italian Inspirations, his eleventh recording for Signum Classics, on February 7. A native of Bari, Italy, Bax expands his critically acclaimed discography with a creatively curated solo recital program themed to his homeland, combining J.S. Bach’s arrangement of an Alessandro Marcello oboe concerto, Rachmaninov’s Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Liszt’s Italian-inspired St. François d’Assise: La prédication aux oiseaux and Après une Lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata, and Dallapiccola’s Quaderno musicale di Annalibera, a playful yet tender twelve-tone composition dedicated to the composer’s eight-year-old daughter, modeled after the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach.

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“Clearly among the most remarkable young pianists now before the public” (Gramophone), Alessio Bax looks forward to the release this season of Italian Inspirations, his eleventh recording for Signum Classics. Pairing works by Luigi Dallapiccola and Alessandro Marcello with Italian-themed pieces by Rachmaninov and Liszt, its program is also the vehicle for the Italian-American pianist’s upcoming U.S. tour, which features his solo recital debut at New York’s 92nd Street Y. Two further debuts follow with the Milwaukee and Santa Barbara Symphonies, where Bax plays Beethoven in concerts marking next year’s 250th anniversary celebrations of the composer’s birth. Other orchestral highlights include season-opening concerts with the North Carolina Symphony and a return to Italy’s Camerata Strumentale Città di Prato. A consummate chamber artist, Bax places especial focus on long-term collaborative projects this season, undertaking Beethoven’s complete sonatas for cello and piano with the Emerson String Quartet’s Paul Watkins at Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; giving numerous duo recitals and double concerto concerts with frequent piano partner Lucille Chung; rejoining Berlin Philharmonic principals Daishin Kashimoto, Emmanuel Pahud and others for chamber concerts at Japan’s Le Pont International Music Festival; and embarking on multiple U.S. and European recital tours with superstar violinist Joshua Bell. In high demand not only as a performer but also as both curator and educator, Bax recently completed his third summer as Artistic Director of Tuscany’s Incontri in Terra di Siena festival and joins the piano faculty of Boston’s New England Conservatory this fall.

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