Fabio Bidini (Italy)

6th Isidor Bajic Piano Memorial Competition Jury member

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Fabio Bidini is one of the top-flight younger-generation pianists. He graduated „Magna cum Laude“ from, and was one of the youngest graduates ever of, the prestigious „Conservatorio Santa Cecilia“ in Rome. Pianists who made a significant contribution to his artistic development are Orazio Frugoni and Maria Tipo.

After winning top prizes in some of the most famous international piano competitions, his sensational success at the Busoni and Van Cliburn International Piano Competitions opened the door to a constantly growing international career. His outstanding piano playing combines technical wizardry with poetic lyricism, and his fascinating „culture of attack“ on the keyboard earned him a glowing London debut in 1992 at the Barbican Center with the London Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas, and in the presence of Sir Georg Solti, Barbara Hendricks and James Galway. Shortly after, he made his highly acclaimed North American debut with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Joel Levi.

Since then Fabio Bidini has been a frequent guest of manyof the world’s best orchestras (the San Francisco Sympony, Dallas Symphony, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Philharmonia Orchestra of London, BBC Orchestra Wales) while playing in the world’s most famous halls (Carnegie Hall, Kimmel Center Philadelphia, Kennedy-Center Washington, Royal Festival Hall, Davies Hall, and Tonhalle Zürich, among others).

He has collaborated successfully with many of the leading conductors of our time, including Michael Tilson Thomas, Ivan Fischer, Andrey Boreyko, Zoltan Kocsis, Eri Klas, GianAndrea Noseda, Barry Wordsworth, Yoel Levi, Pavel Kogan, Louis Lane, Tadaaki Otaka, Mathias Bamert, Jesus Lopez Cobos, Jorge Mester, and JoAnn Falletta.

Fabio Bidini is also greatly in demand as a chamber music partner. He has enjoyed artistic collaboration with the American String Quartet, the Janacek Quartett, the Brodsky Quartett, the Szymanowski Quartet, the Modigliani Quartet, the Quartetto di Fiesole, Zoltan Kocsis, Nikolaj Znaider, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Paula Robison, and Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker. With the latter he has formed a stable duo and the publication of their debut CD of sonatas of S. Prokofieff and R. Strauss has laid the foundations for an extensive collaboration with the US American label True Sounds.

Fabio Bidini’s discography comprises thirteen CDs with leading recording companies like BMG, Classichord, Musikstrasse, EPR, True Sounds, among others.

In 2005 Fabio Bidini accepted a professorship in the Piano Departement of the Universität der Künste – Berlin. In 2009 he was appointed Chair for Piano at the world-renown Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin, Germany, one of the country highest posts, and has been teaching as a professor at this prestigious university since that time.