The Italian Cultural Institute of Hamburg presents a concert by pianist Paolo Restani, scheduled for Friday 17 December.
Born in La Spezia on 2 August 1967, Paolo Restani made his debut at the age of sixteen as a pianist at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. In addition to his highly successful solo career (particularly in South America), Restani is also involved in chamber music and theatre. Amongst others, he has collaborated with the ballet and classical dance icon, Carla Fracci, and the Milanese actor and director, Enrico Maria Salerno. Riccardo Muti has conducted him on several occasions: in Liszt’s Second Concerto with the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala and in the symphony ‘Lélio ou Le Retour à la vie’, op. 14b by Berlioz, alongside Gérard Depardieu, narrator, and the Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor. His vast repertoire ranges from Bach to contemporary music, although he has a preference for the masterpieces of Romanticism and the twentieth century, which led him to tackle Brahms’ complete piano work, the majority of Chopin and Debussy’s compositions, as well as the complete works for piano and orchestra by Beethoven, Field, Liszt, Tchaikovsky and many others.
At the Institute he will be performing pieces by Frederic Chopin, Claude Debussy and Franz Liszt.
For more information, go to: iicamburgo.esteri.it
