Artist · Piano

Andrea Carcano

Biography

Andrea Carcano, a pupil from Bruno Canino’s piano school, has given concerts at prestigious halls in Italy (Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Auditorium Arvedi, Cremona, Parco della Musica, Rome – on invitation by Michele Campanella to the Maratone Liszt, etc.) and abroad.

He recently performed at Weill Carnegie Hall, NY, as a soloist in a Concerto by Bach in 2018, Severance Hall, Cleveland, in one of his US tours, which took in the cities of Cincinnati, Baltimora, Houston; out of US he performed in Dubai (Art Theater), at several festivals in Switzerland, notably Longlake in Lugano, and for a collaboration with Cameristi della Scala at the El Jem amphitheatre, Tunisia. In 2019 he made his Russian debut, in Saint Petersburg.
He recorded for Bottega Discantica and Acam Recording, music by Bach, Beethoven, Liszt, Godowsky, Mendelssohn, Harsany, Françaix, and Bach transcriptions by Busoni (Goldberg Variations and others), Friedman, and Szanto. His in-depth work on contemporary authors like Feldman, Rihm, Benjamin, Larcher, is vigorous and crucial.
Andrea Carcano has played as a soloist for the performance of concertos by Šostakóvić (with OFVG), Cage (Orchestra Laboratorio di Alessandria), Mozart, Beethoven, Czerny (with ACAM), Françaix (with OFV).
He has been a tenured piano teacher since 1995, at Conservatories in Matera, Rovigo, Udine, Alessandria. He is a teacher at the “G.Verdi” Conservatory, Milan, since 2019.

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