DUO PIANISTICO DI FIRENZE

DUO PIANISTICO DI FIRENZE
Sara Bartolucci and Rodolfo Alessandrini celebrated 30 years of professional activity as Firenze Piano Duo in 2021.

Appreciated for their perfect ensemble and stylistic attention, winners of important Piano Competitions including the Internationals of Rome and Stresa, they have performed in Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Japan and the United States, presenting a vast repertoire including all eras (over 150 opus numbers) and largely unknown (over 50 first performances). They have recorded CDs for Brilliant Classics, presenting the complete Anton Rubinstein's work in 3CD as a world premiere and participated in the complete Chopin's work. They have also recorded world premieres of Pratella's music for Mudima (Swiss Radio), and for Rosalba Records they recorded movie music in their own transcriptions. They published 4 hands works for Carisch (Czerny and Calligaris), Schott (Rota) and they are curators of a large publishing project for piano duo: the Four Hands Editions (Da Vinci), which is reprinting the most significant compositions in Urtext edition by over thirty authors, including Chopin, Czerny, Kozeluch, Martucci, Pleyel, Ponchielli, Rubinstein, etc. Pupils of Rosa Maria Scarlino and Stefano Fiuzzi respectively, they trained as a duo with Duo Moreno-Capelli and Dario De Rosa, then specializing at the Imola Academy with Stefano Fiuzzi in Fortepiano and Romantic Piano, obtaining the Master's Degree. The Duo has embarked on a specialization on ancient instruments thanks to a ten-year passion for fortepianos and the performance practice of the time that they were able to cultivate thanks to constant contact with the prestigious Bartolomeo Cristofori Academy in Florence. In addition to the traditional repertoire on fortepiano, they have already presented first performances by various authors, including Czerny, Pleyel, Soliva, Dittersdorf, Elsner etc. on instruments by Johann Schantz, Conrad Graf, Wilhelm Lange and Ignace Pleyel. The two pianists also stood out for their passionate activity as organizers of musical events. They were founders and Artistic Directors, among other events, of the "City of Cesenatico" Piano Competition and are Artistic Directors of the historical "Muzio Clementi" National Piano Competition. Currently they are teaching piano in the Conservatories of Foggia and Potenza and piano duet in Scuola di Musica di Fiesole.