Paolo Giacometti

Paolo Giacometti has earned a status in a few circles as an expert of types in piano repertory, not least because he has recorded the complete keyboard result of Gioachino Rossini. He in addition has recorded many hardly ever encountered cello/piano functions by Reger, Hindemith, while others, aswell as chamber functions by neglected Classical-era French composer Jacques Widerkehr. But Giacometti possesses a wide repertory which includes very much standard fare, using the brands Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Fauré, Debussy, Ravel, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, among others frequently showing up on his concert applications and recordings. And Giacometti provides garnered countless rave testimonials, whether in mainstream repertory or less popular functions. His Rossini recordings have already been received specifically well by critics. He provides made a lot more than 40 recordings over time, many of them available on Route Classics and Outstanding Classics. Though Giacometti posesses heavy timetable of concerts, he also shows piano performance on the Utrecht Conservatory. Paolo Giacometti was created in Milan, Italy, in 1970, but was raised in holland. He performed the piano from his early youth and started piano lessons at nine with Joke Dekker-Vroons on the Hilversum Music College. Giacometti afterwards enrolled on the Sweelinck Conservatory, where he examined under Jan Wijn. In 1992 Giacometti captured second award on the International Brahms Competition in Hamburg. In 1995, the entire year he graduated with the best honors in the Sweelinck Conservatory, he was honored first prize on the Postbank Sweelinck Competition in Amsterdam. The next year saw the discharge of his initial recordings for Route Classics, including a Compact disc of functions for cello and piano by Utmost Reger, with cellist Pieter Wispelwey. In 1998 the same label released Giacometti’s first level of Rossini’s piano music, that was greeted broadly by vital acclaim. As well as the achievement continued: the 3rd quantity in the series, filled with works in the Péchés de vieillesse, was presented with the Edison Classical Prize in 2001. In the brand new century Giacometti provides appeared at main concert locations across Europe as well as the U.S., including in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Wigmore Hall (London), Théâtre du Châtelet (Paris), and Teatro Digestive tract (Buenos Aires). He frequently shows up in recital with cellist Pieter Wispelwey, with whom he distributed a Diapason d’or award in 1997 to get a CD of functions by Chopin, Fauré, and Poulenc. Among Giacometti’s later on recordings may be the 2009 Route Classics Compact disc of Schumann’s Davidsbündlertänze, Arabeske, and Gesänge der Frühe.