Nazzareno Carusi


Nazzareno Carusi is an Italian pianist. He studied the Piano under Lucia Passaglia, Alexis Weissenberg and Victor Merzhanov. He also studied Chamber music under Adriano Vendramelli, and received advice from Isaac Stern.

Biography

Italian conductor Riccardo Muti has described him as "a superlative pianist and an artist of the highest order".
Since his 2003 Carnegie Hall debut in New York, Carusi has been invited to perform for the world’s principal institutions, capitals and music centers, including La Scala in Milan, Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, La Fenice in Venice, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence, the Wigmore Hall in London, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Toronto Centre for the Arts, the Palau de la Música in València, the Zipper Hall in Los Angeles, the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, and several times again at Carnegie Hall. He has shared the stage with dozens of top artists and orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, Eleonora Buratto, the Fine Arts Quartet, Mischa Maisky, Domenico Nordio and the Soloists of La Scala.
In May 2016 he was appointed Artistic Adviser of the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition in Bolzano.
From 2001 to 2006 he has been Artist in residence at the Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago.
In 1990 he was one of the youngest winners of the Italian national competition to become Faculty member in the Italian State Conservatories of Music. In 1993 he began teaching as the youngest assistant of Victor Merzhanov. Currently he teaches Chamber music in the Faculty of International Piano Academy "Incontri col Maestro" in Imola and in the Faculty of "A. Buzzolla" Conservatory of Music in Adria.
After his recital in Washington D.C. in Trio with the Soloists of La Scala, the music critic Cecelia Porter wrote on The Washington Post: "An evening of breathtaking artistry... Carusi transformed the keyboard into a 100-pieces orchestra".

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