About Nazzareno Carusi
Nazzareno Carusi (born 9 November 1968) 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. He is considered among the piano virtuosos, in which, however, strong elements of musical research go beyond the mere domain of the keyboard and his pianism has been described either as a synthesis between the Russian school of Gilels and Richter and the German tradition of Claudio Arrau, or as the personal expression of a sovereign musical freedom. == Biography == Riccardo Muti called him "a superlative pianist and a musician of the highest value". 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". Nowadays, he teaches at Conservatory of Bari. 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). He collaborated with Eleonora Buratto, the Philharmonische Camerata Berlin and Mischa Maisky, the Fine Arts Quartet. His live recordings from Teatro alla Scala, from Teatro Colon and from the Jewel Box Series at Northeastern Illinois University of Chicago were released by EMI. At the turn of the 10s, he was the first classical pianist to sign an exclusive with a main commercial television: Mediaset [10].
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