Roberto Plano

Roberto Plano performs internationally with orchestras and at festivals. He won first prize at the Cleveland International Piano Competition in 2001, received prizes at the Honens, Dublin, Sendai, Géza Anda and Valencia competitions, and was a finalist at the 2005 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. He has also won first prizes at several Italian competitions.

He has appeared on NPR’s Performance Today and on television programmes for PBS and Japan’s NHK. His recordings include releases for Brilliant Classics, Azica, Arktos and Sipario. Two world premiere recordings for Concerto devoted to the rediscovered eighteenth-century composer Andrea Luchesi received five-star reviews in Musica. In May 2016, Amadeus awarded five stars to his Decca recording of Liszt’s Harmonies poétiques et religieuses.

Plano studied at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatoire in Milan, the École Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot in Paris and the Lake Como Academy. He founded and directed the Associazione Musicale Alfred Cortot, which he co-chaired with his wife, pianist Paola Del Negro. His teaching includes masterclasses at his own academy and internationally; he joined the Boston University faculty in September 2016.

His hometown of Varese has awarded him several distinctions, including the Lumen Claro, also received by soprano Barbara Frittoli, designer Ottavio Missoni and economist Mario Monti. In 2016 he became an honorary member of the Lions Club Varese.