BRUNO CANINO
He has performed both as a soloist and a chamber musician in all the great concert venues of Europe, US, Australia, Japan and China.
For over forty years Bruno Canino has been regularly performing with Antonio Ballista, his piano Duo partner, and since thirty he is a member of the Trio of Milan. Besides he collaborates with Salvatore Accardo, Pierre Amoyal, Itzhak Perlman, and Uto Ughi, among others.
For many years he has been Artistic Director of the Giovine Orchestra Genovese and, later, of the International Music Campus in Latina during the autumn. From 1999 to 2001 Bruno Canino has been the Director of the Venice Biennale Music Department.
A strong advocate of contemporary music, Bruno Canino has collaborated with composers such as Pierre Boulez, Luciano Berio, Karl-Heinz Stockhausen, Georg Ligeti, Bruno Maderna, Luigi Nono, Sylvano Bussotti and others, the works of whom he has often premiered. As a soloist Bruno Canino has performed with major orchestras including the Filarmonica della Scala, Santa Cecilia, Berliner Philharmoniker, New York Philharmonia, Philadelphia Orchestra, Orchestre National de France under the baton of leading conductors, among which Abbado, Berio, Boulez, Chailly, Muti, Sawallisch.
He holds a master-class of piano and chamber music at the Bern Conservatory.
Bruno Canino's recent recordings include the Goldberg Variations by Bach, the complete piano works by Casella for Stradivarius; recently the first two CDs of the complete Debussy piano works have been released by Stradivarius.
In 1997 Passigli Editions published his book "Vademecum for a chamber pianist".
