Since winning the First Prize and Audience Prize at the Telekom-Beethoven Competition in Bonn in 2015 and winning the Borletti-Buitoni Trust prize in the beginning of 2020, Italian pianist Filippo Gorini has enjoyed a steadily rising career. His concert appearances have drawn unanimous acclaim on many prestigious stages such as the Berlin Konzerthaus, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Munich Herkulessaal, Società del Quartetto di Milano, and the Samsung Concert Hall in Seoul.
Filippo’s highlights from 21-22 include recitals in Milan and Turin for MiTo Settembre Musica, and at the Ludwigsburg Festival; an orchestral date with the Santa Cecilia Orchestra in Rome. Not also forgetting another personal invite to Marlboro Music School by Mitsuko Uchida, where he performed with Itamar Zorman, Haesue Lee, Brannon Cho and he continues to perform with Stephanie Zyzak whom he met at the Festival in 2021. In 22-23, alongside his performances at Vancouver Recital Society, Konzerthaus Vienna, Festival Bach Montreal, Wigmore Hall, and San Carlo Theatre in Naples just to name a few, Filippo will be continuing his multi-year project of Bach’s Art of Fugue funded by the BBT. Having released the work on Alpha Classics it will continue with the release of a series of filmed conversations on Bach’s music between Filippo and personalities such as Peter Sellars, Frank Gehry, Sasha Waltz, Alexander Sokurov, Alexander Polzin, Alfred Brendel, and many more.
Other releases on Alpha Classics include Filippo’s debut disc in 2017 featuring Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations, which won the Diapason d'Or Award. His second disc in 2020 of Beethoven’s Op.106 & 111. Filippo has also received other awards such as “Una Vita per la Musica - Giovani” of the La Fenice Theatre, the Young Euro Classic Award, and the Beethoven-Ring of Bonn.
Alongside his solo career, Filippo continues to perform as a chamber musician: in 2016 he performed at “Chamber Music Connects the World” in Kronberg with Steven Isserlis, who later invited him to take part in the Chamber Music Seminars in Prussia Cove. He has also performed with the Mozarteum Orchestra and collaborated with violinists Jonian Ilias Kadesha and Marc Bouchkov. He follows actively the world of contemporary composition, and has played works by composers such as Stockhausen, Kurtág, Lachenmann, Gervasoni, Lanza in the past season alone.
After graduating with honours from the Donizetti Conservatory in Bergamo and completing a Postgraduate Course at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, Filippo continues his studies with Maria Grazia Bellocchio and Pavel Gililov, and is mentored by Alfred Brendel.
September 2022
