Swiss-Italian pianist Francesco Piemontesi appears as a regular guest with many of the world’s leading orchestras, in concert halls and music festivals around the globe. With his subtle but mesmerizing interpretations of Schubert’s piano sonatas as well as the solo works and piano concertos of Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and Liszt, he has been acclaimed internationally by critics and audiences alike.

 

As a soloist, he has played alongside leading orchestras such as Berlin, New York and Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestras, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Filarmonica della Scala, Wiener Symphoniker, the Boston, Chicago, NHK and London Symphony Orchestras, the Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe as well as the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. He regularly collaborates with distinguished conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Gianandrea Noseda, Antonio Pappano, Daniele Gatti, Lorenzo Viotti, Iván Fischer, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Joana Mallwitz, Daniel Harding, Paavo Järvi, Nathalie Stutzmann, and Elim Chan.

 

A consummate recitalist, this season he performs at the Musikverein, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and at the Wigmore Hall in London, where he is a regular favourite. In addition to the classical and romantic periods, Francesco Piemontesi’s wider repertoire includes works by Bach and Handel, piano concertos by Ravel, Debussy, Bartók, and Schönberg, as well as works by Olivier Messiaen and Unsuk Chin. Among his many important musical influences, he highlights his distinguished teachers Arie Vardi, Alfred Brendel, and Cecile Ousset. He recently has been Artist in Residence with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Dresden Philharmonic and Gstaad Menuhin Festival.

 

In 2024, Francesco collaborated with director Jan Schmidt-Garre to create the documentary “The Alchemy of the Piano.” Filmed over one year, Piemontesi talks with some of the world’s leading performers, including his mentor, the late Alfred Brendel, Maria João Pires, Stephen Kovacevich and Antonio Pappano, in a series of revealing encounters that illuminate their individual approaches to the instrument, its colour and form.