Massimiliano Motterle

Massimiliano Motterle studied with Sergio Marengoni and graduated from the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan with the highest honours and a special commendation. He continued his training with Franco Scala, Lazar Berman, Paul Badura-Skoda and Alexis Weissenberg.

He won twenty-one national and international competitions, including the international competition in Parma, where he also received the jury’s special award for his performance of Liszt’s Sonata. He was a finalist in the José Iturbi Competition in Valencia and won third prize at the Franz Liszt Competition in Budapest, where no first prize was awarded, as well as at the international competition in Cincinnati, Ohio.

In 1994 he made his debut in Milan’s Sala Verdi, performing Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto with the Milan RAI Orchestra conducted by Daniele Callegari. In the same hall, he was selected to perform on a piano that had belonged to Vladimir Horowitz. In 2004 he performed Liszt’s twelve Transcendental Études for the Società dei Concerti. He was also invited to perform Liszt’s Malediction in Budapest’s Great Concert Hall with the Liszt Chamber Orchestra, and Totentanz with the Hungarian Matáv Symphony Orchestra at the Liszt Academy.

His concert career has taken him to Austria, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Spain, Sweden, Hungary, Taiwan, Oman and the United States. He has performed with the Liszt Chamber Orchestra, the Hungarian Matáv Symphony Orchestra, the Valencia Orchestra, the RAI Symphony Orchestra and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, under conductors including Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli, Piercarlo Orizio, András Ligeti, Riccardo Frizza, Jonathan Webb and Neal Gittleman.

His chamber music partners have included Andreas Brantelid, Karin Dornbusch, Elisa Citterio and the Quartetto della Scala. His collaboration with violinist Fulvio Luciani began in 2007; together they recorded for Naxos and performed the complete Beethoven sonatas for violin and piano for the international television channel Classica HD.

He has given seminars and masterclasses in Italy, Taiwan and the United States. His teaching and artistic leadership have included the Gaetano Donizetti Conservatory in Bergamo, the historic GIA music association in Brescia, and the Onde Musicali and Iseo Classica festivals.