Corrado Greco

Corrado Greco graduated in piano with honours at the age of nineteen and subsequently attended masterclasses with Alberto Mozzati and Bruno Canino. He also graduated in composition and electronic music from the Milan Conservatory and earned a master’s degree with honours in musicology, with a dissertation on the communication of art music in Italy. He is Professor of Chamber Music at the Milan Conservatory.

A prizewinner at national and international piano competitions, he performs as a soloist and with orchestras and ensembles including the Amarcord Quartett of the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Orchestra da Camera di Mantova and the Prague Chamber Orchestra. His collaborators have included Mario Ancillotti, Rodolfo Bonucci, Bruno Canino, Mario Caroli, Fabio Di Casola, Martina Janková, Bin Huang, Massimo Quarta, Giovanni Sollima, Tatjana Vassiljeva and Lorna Windsor.

As pianist of Trio des Alpes, he has appeared at international festivals since 2010 and recorded for Dynamic. He has developed thematic programmes for the trio and performed triple concertos by Beethoven, Ghedini, Schnyder and Martinů. In music and theatre productions, he has worked with Dacia Maraini, Arnoldo Foà, Franco Graziosi, Amanda Sandrelli, Pamela Villoresi and Enzo Decaro.

His recordings have received acclaim from the specialist press and have been broadcast by RAI, RSI, SRG, HRT and other international broadcasters. He has also appeared several times in the Quirinale Concerts in Rome, broadcast live through Euroradio.

Committed to sharing music with wider audiences, Greco regularly gives seminars, lectures and lecture-recitals. Since 2001 he has been Artistic Director of the concert season at the University of Insubria in Varese, where he also teaches courses on musical communication and twentieth-century music.