He successfully combined authority and poetry
Daily Telegraph
Alessio Bax made his first entry and it was clear within minutes that here at last was a pianist with the style, the sound, the breadth of technique and, above all, the ability to listen and participate in a spontaneous give-and-take interpretation with Sir Simon Rattle and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
The Times
Bax pulled together that perfect Brahmsian balance of intellect and emotion through subtle, generous and communicative playing
This was real music-making that made its own world on stage and invited the audience in as guests, rather than running at them screaming "look at me"
Independent on Sunday
… control and eloquence, innate understanding of the work's logic and impetus and those additional magical ingredients -weight of sound, clarity of detail and absolute conviction in his conception of the music
The Independent
…The Baroque style is seen through richly varied perspectives, ranging from the audacious to the devotional, from the intimate to the heaven-storming.
…His playing quivers with an almost hypnotic intensity.
Gramophone
…An enterprising, intelligent recital played with musical conviction and finesse
Classic FM
…Here's a disc to treasure
American Record Guide
…his Rachmaninov was heaven itself
Dallas Morning News
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Alessio's latest CD. BACH TRANSCRIBED on Signum Classics CLASSIC FM CD OF THE WEEK
Transcriptions by Bax, Busoni, Siloti, Petri, Saint-Saens, Kempff and Godowsky CLICK ON THE COVER TO DOWNLOAD ON iTUNES or go to:
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Alessio performs the Fugue of Beethoven's "Hammerklavier" Sonata for Maestro Daniel Barenboim in "Barenboim on Beethoven" a 6 DVD set issued by EMI in 2007! TO BUY OR FOR MORE INFO CLICK ON THE COVER!!!
Check out "Baroque Reflections" released on Warner Classics!! Editor's Choice on Gramophone and Instrumental Best Buy on Classic FM
To purchase the album, or to listen to sample tracks click on the cover (Rhino Website) or go to:
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Just released by Warner Classics. They picked JS Bach's transcription of Alessandro Marcello's Adagio from the Oboe Concerto as one of the 40 most beautiful love themes. I swear I didn't think of that when I chose the piece ;-) TO BUY OR FOR MORE INFO CLICK ON THE COVER!!!
Alessio and Lucille in Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals. Narration by Michael York! Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Miguel Harth-Bedoya. TO BUY OR FOR MORE INFO CLICK ON THE COVER!!!
Alessio and Lucille in the complete works for two pianos and one piano four hands by Gyorgy Ligeti! It is part of Lucille's two-disc cycle of the complete works for piano by Ligeti. TO BUY OR FOR MORE INFO CLICK ON THE COVER!!!
Alessio in Hamamatsu. Live performances from the 1998 Japan Tour. Granados, Rachmaninov, Rimsky-Korsakov, Scriabin and Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto. There should also be a double CD from the competition with Granados and Brahms' 1st Concerto somewhere on the 'net!
My first CD! from 1996! The complete works for piano and organ duet of French organist/composer Marcel Dupre, with organist Stefan Engels. TO BUY OR FOR MORE INFO CLICK ON THE COVER!!!
Winner of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant for 2009, Alessio Bax is universally praised for his lyrical playing and insightful interpretations. Since taking first prize at the the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition in Japan at age 19 and the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition in 2000, Bax has won audiences across the globe. Acclaimed by the international press, his performances have been described as “real music-making that makes its own world on stage and invites the audience in as guests” (The Independent), and “successfully combining authority and poetry” (Daily Telegraph).
Alessio Bax’s extensive concerto repertoire has led to appearances with over 80 orchestras including the London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National, Dallas Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Houston Symphony, Rome Symphony, Hungarian Symphony, NHK Symphony, Tokyo Symphony, and New Japan Philharmonic. He has worked with a number of esteemed conductors such as Marin Alsop, Alexander Dimitriev, Jonathan Nott, Vernon Handley, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Ken-ichiro Kobayashi, Dimitry Sitkovetsky and Sir Simon Rattle.
Bax’s festival appearances include London’s International Piano Series (Queen Elizabeth Hall), the Verbier Festival in Switzerland, England’s Aldeburgh and Bath festivals, the Ruhr Klavierfestival, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, BeethovenFest, and Musikfestspiele Saar in Germany. He has performed in recital at music halls in Rome, Milan, Madrid, Paris, London, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong, New York, Washington DC, and Mexico City. Also an active chamber musician, he has collaborated with Joshua Bell, Steven Isserlis, Andrés Diaz and Nobuko Imai, among others. He joins Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Society Two residency program for outstanding artists for three seasons beginning in 2009-10.
His 2004 recording for Warner Classics, Baroque Reflections, received rave reviews and was selected as “Editor's Choice” by Gramophone magazine. In 2003, Bax and Lucille Chung recorded the complete works for two pianos and piano-for-four-hands of György Ligeti on Dynamic Records. In 2005, they recorded Saint-Saëns’s Carnival of the Animals with conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. He has recorded the complete works for piano and organ of Marcel Dupré on Naxos, and Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1, live with the New Japan Philharmonic, for Fontec. Also on Fontec, Bax released a live recording of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Hamamatsu Symphony Orchestra.
His latest recording, Bach Transcribed, will be released by Signum Records in 2009.
In 2005, Alessio Bax was selected to play the Fugue of Beethoven’s “Hammerklavier” Sonata for Maestro Daniel Barenboim in Barenboim on Beethoven. The documentary was produced by Channel 13/PBS, in conjunction with Bel Air Media, BBC, and NHK Japan. It was broadcast worldwide and released as a DVD box set in 2006 on the EMI label. His performances are often broadcast live on the BBC, CBC (Canada), RAI (Italy), RTVE (Spain), NHK (Japan), WDR, NDR and Bayerische Rundfunk (Germany), Hungarian Radio Television, Serbian RTE, among others.
Alessio Bax graduated with top honors at the record age of 14 from the conservatory of his home town, Bari, Italy. He studied in France with François-Joël Thiollier, and attended the Chigiana Academy in Siena under Joaquín Achúcarro. He moved to Dallas in 1994 to continue his studies with Achúcarro at SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts. He is now on the teaching faculty there. He and his wife, pianist Lucille Chung, reside in New York City.
I'm going to Hiroko Nakamura talk & concert in Hamamatsu on Sep 23, which is one of the pre-events for The 7th Hamamatsu International Piano Competition in Nov. I'm really looking forward to what she will talk about and her romantic pianism.
I wish I could see your performance again here in November...
Hi Alessio, I uploaded 2 Grieg tracks, 1 Mendelssohn track, very best wishes to you and yours and congratulations again on your wonderful music. By the way, I found out today in Busoni's later life he thought Mendelssohn was the rightful heir to Mozart, it makes you think. Very best wishes to you and yours, Peace, Neil
Ciao Alessio e grazie per l'add! Per caso qualche domenica fa' ho conosciuto tuo padre, che parlando di musica e conservatori mi ha detto di te, quindi ho visitato il tuo myspace, scoprendo il tuo talento eccezionale. Non avrei mai immaginato che vicino casa mia fosse cresciuto un artista del tuo livello...Complimenti davvero! Marco.
Thank you so much for your brilliant recitals in here Japan, especially in Shizuoka. We audience was really fascinated with the fantastic collaboration. Thank you so much. I already can't wait for next opportunity, hopefully soon...
It's great to see your gorgeous photos from official website!
It is amazing to get so much talent! Technic to serve music, precision in the gests, nothing is overdone, everything is in place as it has to be. Congratulations.
Hi I really like your music!! would you like to partecipate as a pianist to my project? Let me know my e-mail address is vagnini@libero.it Thank you Have a great day
