Massimiliano Scatena

Massimiliano Scatena
He trained musically at the ‘A. Casella’ Conservatory in L'Aquila, the Eesti Muusikaakadeemia in Tallinn and the ‘Liszt ferenc’ Academy in Budapest.

He specialised with musicians such as Aldo Ciccolini, Balázs Szokolay, Ferenc Rados, François-Joël Thiollier, Angela Hewitt, among others.
He has won numerous piano performance and chamber music competitions. An eclectic musician, he has always turned his attention to a vast repertoire, ranging from the music of Bach and Scarlatti to compositions of our time; piano works have been dedicated to him and there are several first performances by living composers.
Parallel to his work as a soloist, he carries out an intense chamber music activity: Significant in this regard are his collaborations with artists such as Alessandro Carbonare, Gabriele Geminiani, Francesco Dillon, Alexey Zhilin, Andrey Baranov, Matteo Liuzzi, Theodora Geraets, composers Michael Riessler, Sidney Corbett, the Camerata Italica orchestra, the Ensemble Modern Frankfurt, and the Dutch NSO orchestra, to name but a few, in locations such as the Santa Cecilia Auditorium of the Parco della Musica, Auditorium of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome, the Hungarian Academy in Rome, Auditorium of the Barattelli Concert Society Park in L'Aquila, Sala dos Espelhos in Lisbon, Auditorium of the Chopin Academy in Warsaw, Kissterem of the Liszt Academy in Budapest, Kossuth Klub in Budapest, among others.
He dedicates himself with great passion to teaching; he is the founder of the international Summer Campus for further education ‘Ambient'Azioni Musicali’, which since 2010 has offered intensive specialisation courses with high-profile teachers in various locations in central Italy.
He was a piano teacher for pre-academic courses at the Conservatorio ‘Santa Cecilia’ in Rome.