Gabriele Carcano, recipient of a 2010 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship Award, is a pianist equally at home in recital, as a soloist with orchestras, and as a chamber musician. He has been praised by the Süddeutsche Zeitung as a sculptor of sound and aesthete after his Munich debut at the Herkulessaal and is the winner of numerous awards, including the Casella Prize at the Competition Premio Venezia, where he made his debut at Teatro La Fenice. Gabriele has been supported by the CRT Foundation and the De Sono Foundation and was also awarded a grant from the Fondation des Banques Populaires Françaises – Natexis in 2008. Highlights of the 2015/2016 season include his debut recital at the Mariinsky International Piano Festival in St Petersburg, a return invitation to Milan’s Verdi Orchestra, as well as a residency project at the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris. In chamber music, he will appear at the Krzyzowa Festival and the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, and will also be on on tour with the Tel Aviv Wind Quintet in Israel.
The programme includes Sonatas by Scarlatti, Berio’s Cinque Variazioni, and works by Brahms.