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Bruno Canino: Guest Artist
Born in Naples, he studied piano at the Conservatory of Naples with Vincenzo Vitale. He graduated in piano and composition with Enzo Calace and Bruno Bettinelli in Milan.

Bruno Canino performs as soloist and chamber musician in the most important concert halls in Europe, America, Australia, Japan and China. He has been playing duo with Antonio Ballista for over 50 years and is member of the "Trio di Milano" since 40 years ago.

He collaborates with renowned artists such as Salvatore Accardo, Uto Ughi, Lynn Harrell, Itzhak Perlman, Victoria Mullova and Pierre Amoyal. Bruno Canino is Artistic Director of the Giovini Orchestra Genovese and of the "Campus Internazionale di Musica" in Latina. Between 1999 and 2001 he is head of the music section of the Biennale in Venice. In particular he has also devoted himself to contemporary music. Bruno Canino has developed several projects with Pierre Boulez, Luciano Berio, Karl-Heinz Stockhausen, György Ligeti, Bruno Maderna, Luigi Nono and Sylvano Bussotti, among others, and has appeared in numerous first performances.

He has played under the baton of Abbado, Muti, Chailly, Sawallisch, Berio and Boulez. Bruno Canino has performed with orchestras such as the La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra, Santa Cecilia in Rome, the New York Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia of New York, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the French National Orchestra an Concertgebow.

Bruno Canino has been Piano Professor at the Milan Conservatory for twenty-four years and Professor of Piano Master Class and Modern Chamber Music at the Bern Musikhochschule for eleven years.

He is often invited as juror in many major piano and/or chamber music competitions (Bolzano, Santander, Maryland, Graz, Vienna, Zurich, Leipzig, etc.).

Bruno Canino has made many recordings and CD's; for example: Johann Sebastian Bach's "Goldberg Variations", the complete piano works by Alfredo Casella (Stradivarius) and at present he is recording Claude Debussy's complete works for piano. As a writer he published in 1997 "Vademecum per il pìanista da camera" (Passigli edition).

Bruno Canino