Matteo Corio

Matteo Corio: Born in Italy he started studying concert piano at the Donizetti Conservatory of Bergamo, where he studied with Marco Giovanetti.

After obtaining his diploma he moved to Paris in 1997 to study, first, with Emile Naoumoff and, afterwards, with Bernard Job. He obtained a scholarship to continue studying with Emile Naoumoff at the Indiana University School of Music at Bloomington. While conducting his studies in the United States, he worked for two years as Assistant Piano Instructor at the Indiana University School of Music. In 2005, he returned to Italy, where he was appointed piano professor at S. Cecilia Music Academy in Bergamo. In 2009, he was elected Vice Dean of the Liceo Musicale S. Alessandro and in 2012 he started to teach piano at the Donizetti Conservatory of Bergamo. As a concert pianist, Matteo Corio has staged solo performances in renowned concert halls in Italy, France, Spain, England and the United States, interpreting both contemporary and classical compositions for piano. In 2001, he published his first solo recording performing Nicolay Mednter’s Sonata Tragica, Op. 39 from “Forgotten Melodies” along with Sonata Op. 5 by Johannes Brahms. His interest in contemporary music has given him the opportunity to premier works by talented young composers. In 2002, he staged the first interpretation of Twin for two pianos by Justin Messina and About laughing and forgetting by John Supko for piano and brass orchestra at the Paul Recital Hall in New York. In 2011 and 2012, he premiered the two concerts for piano and orchestra by Ludovico Pelis with the Valcea Symphonic Orchestra (Romania) and with the National Symphonic Orchestra of Ukraine, respectively. In 2018, he joined the Blumine Ensemble of Bologna, performing at the Festival Nuova Musica of Macerata (Italy), among others. In 2014 he founded, along with Marco Cortinovis, the ensemble Affinità Divergenti, and in 2015 they recorded the first album dedicated to the repertoire for organ and piano.