About Nazzareno Carusi
Nazzareno Carusi is an Italian pianist. A pupil of Alexis Weissenberg and Victor Merzhanov, he also studied with Lucia Passaglia and Adriano Vendramelli. The classical studies with Ugo Maria Palanza and Vittoriano Esposito and the meetings with the Dominican theologian F. Innocenzo Colosio, pupil of Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, and Isaac Stern were decisive for his formation. In his early twenties, he won the national competition for chairs in the Italian Music Conservatories (1990) and became their youngest professor of "Chamber music". He also won the Réncontres Internationales de Piano in Paris (1999) and the Alexis Weissenberg Prize, awarded by the legendary pianist Alexis Weissenberg himself (1995). For this commitments, he was awarded the Special Mention of the "Giustiniano Prize" in Ravenna in 2013.
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