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FABIO BIDINI - pianist |
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Born in Arezzo, Italy, FABIO BIDINI began his first piano studies at the age five. His most important teachers were Orazio Frugoni (a student of Casella and Lipatti) and Maria Tipo (student of Scaramuzza, Casella and Agosti). In 1985 he received his diploma “Magna cum Laude” from the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome. Since the age of seven years he has been awarded the first prize in eleven of Italy's most prestigious national piano competitions and has been the winner of the top prizes awarded in eight international competitions (Van Cliburn - Fort Worth, Busoni - Bozen 1988 and 1992, WNP International Piano Competition - London, Beethoven International Piano Competition - Köln, UNISA - Pretoria, Marsala International Piano Competition - Marsala). In 1992, in a concert celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Barbican Center and the London Symphony Orchestra's residency there, Bidini appeared with the London Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas in a performance of Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat, joining other guest artists James Galway, Barbara Hendricks and Sir Georg Solti. Fabio Bidini made his North American debut performing Beethoven's Fantasy for piano, chorus and orchestra Op. 80 with Yoel Levi and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in the ASO Beethoven Summer Festival '93. During the 1993/1994 season he undertook two North American tours: the first one with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in the United States with Tadaaki Otaka conducting. During that tour Fabio Bidini made a guest appearance with the BBC at the “United Nations” honoring the 49th Anniversary of the U.N. The second tour one was a series of recitals and orchestral engagements in key cities from Mexico City to Juneau, Alaska. In 1994/95 Fabio Bidini's New York debut included recitals at Carnegie Hall, the Alice Tully Hall/Lincoln Center, the Frick Collection and the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts. In Italy he is regularly invited to the “Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli International Piano Festival” in Brescia and Bergamo, the most important Piano Festival in Italy. In the season 1998/1999 he debuted with a solo recital at the “Teatro Comunale di Bologna” and played at the “Festival dei Due Mondi” in Spoleto. In summer 1999 Fabio Bidini performed at the two most famous piano festivals: at the “Festival Radio France Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillion” and the “La Roque d’Antheron International Piano Festival”. In June 2000 he debuted at the “Stern Grove Festival” with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas performing Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 op. 18 and receiving a standing ovation from an audience of 12.000 people. The repertoire of Fabio Bidini is immense and includes 74 piano concerti. He has performed substantially all the repertoire from Bach to Berio. Fabio Bidini performs regularly in the following important cities of the USA: New York, San Francisco (Davis Hall, Herbst Hall), Los Angeles, Chicago (Ravinia Festival), Washington (Kennedy Center), Miami, Pittsbourgh, Boston, Cincinnati, Saint Louis, Denver, Detroit, Dallas, Atlanta, Phoenix, Columbus, Buffalo, Fort Worth, New Orleans, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Oklahoma City, Mexico City, and Montreal, among others. He performed with the following orchestras: London Symphony Orchestra, The Philharmonia Orchestra of London (Royal Festival Hall), San Francisco symphony, New World Symphony Orchestra (Miami), Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony orchestra, Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Columbus Symphony Orchestra (Ohio), Budapest Festival Orchestra, The Philharmonia Orchestra Prague (Rudolphinum), Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra (Liszt Academy Hall), China National Symphony, Slovenske Filharnonjie, Oklahoma Symphony Orchestra, Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, Gelders Orkest Arnhem, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie (Madrid, Zaragoza, Valencia, Barcelona, Murcia, Salamanca), among others. Fabio Bidini collaborated with the following conductors: Michael Tilson Thomas, Ivan Fischer, Jorge Mester, Eri Klas, Yoel Levi, Michael Christie, Jesus Lopez Cobos, Zoltan Kocsis, Jerzy Maksymiuk, GianAndrea Noseda, Thomas Hanus, Louis Lane, Barry Wordsworth, Tadaaki Otaka, JoAnn Falletta, Keri-Lynn Wilson, David Itkin, Joel Levine, Toshiyuki Kamioka, among others. As a chamber musician he worked with the following artists: Zoltan Kocsis, Paula Robison, Corey Cerovsek, Wendy Warner, Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker, Eva Urbanova, Eva Mei, Roberto Fabbriciani, Alexis-Pia Gerlach, Janacek Quartet, Quartetto di Fiesole, Nina Kotova, Hideko Udagawa, among others. Fabio Bidini presently has the position of the Artist in Residence at Arlington University, Dallas/Texas. He recorded 12 CDs for BMG, Classichord, Musikstrasse, EPR and True Sounds among others. Fabio Bidini played live for the most important radio stations of the world und appeared internationally in numerous television broadcastings. He is an official “Steinway Artist” since 1992. Since he founded his own chamber orchestra in Italy, Fabio Bidini became a sought after conductor. In 2003 he debuted as a conductor in the USA. In 2004 he was named the musical director of the “Nordwestdeutsche Sinfonietta”. Fabio Bidini is co-founder and artistic director of the “Associazione Musicale Orazio Frugoni”. Out of this organisation derived the “Assisi International Piano Festival” that takes place for the first time in 2004. |
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