Emanuele Arciuli has established himself as one of the most original and interesting performers of the new concert scene. His repertoire goes from Bach to contemporary music, with a special relationship to the United States including  Native American composers such as Brent Michael Davids.

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Be sure to hear Emanuele Arciuli’s 2012 Festival performance listed below

Friday, August 17, 2012, 6:30 PM at St. Francis Auditorium

Emanuele Arciuli has established himself as one of the most original and interesting performers of the new concert scene. His repertoire goes from Bach to contemporary music, with a special relationship to the United States. He is highly esteemed by American composers and maintains close and fruitful collaborations with many of them.

He gives regular recitals at major music institutions and festivals, including La Scala, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro San Carlo (Naples), Verona Arena, La Fenice (Venice), the Rai National Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Festwochen, Milano Musica, Torino Settembre Musica, Brescia and Bergamo International Piano Festival, Teatro Carlo Fenice (Genoa), Miller Theater (New York), Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira (Rio de Janeiro), and Miami Piano Festival.

He collaborates with many orchestra directors, including Petr Altrichter, Marc Andreae, Yoel Levi, James MacMillan, Anton Nanut, Kazushi Ono, Zoltan Pesko, Stefan Reck, Arturo Tamayo, and Mario Venzago. He performed (with Valede, Libetta, and the Rai Symphonic Orchestra) at the Venice Biennale in Claudio Ambrosini’s Plurimo awarded with the 2007 Golden Lion.

Among the composers who have written for Arciuli are Michael Nyman, Piano Concerto No. 2; George Crumb, Eine Kleine Mitternachtmusik; Lorenzo Ferrero, Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra; Filippo Del Corno, Not in my Name for Piano and Orchestra; Michele dall’Ongaro, Concerto No. 2; Carlo Boccadoro, Achrome for Piano and Orchestra; Brent Michael Davids (Mohican) and Louis W. Ballard (Cherokee). In 2008, he performed Louis W. Ballard’s Indiana Concerto with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.

Round Midnight Variations, a group of 16 compositions that in 2001 were written expressly for Arciuli, has gained much interest by international critics and can be considered one of the most significant contemporary piano collections. Involved composers include Babbitt, Rzewski, Torke, Daugherty, Bolcom and Harbison.

His interest in Native American culture has inspired a special project with major Native composers (Davids, Quincy, Croall, Chacon) in piano pieces dedicated to Arciuli, who performed these pieces in November 2008 at the Washington Smithsonian Museum.