Fabio Bidini
piano

Biography

Italian pianist Fabio Bidini’s appearances have included performances with The London  Symphony Orchestra at  The Barbican, The Philharmonia Orchestra of London at Royal Festival Hall, the New World Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Forth Worth Chamber Orchestra, Forth Worth Symphony Orchestra, The Philharmonia Orchestra Prague at the Rudolphinum, and the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra at Liszt Academy Hall.  He has collaborated with conductors including Michael Tilson Thomas, Ivan Fisher, Jesus Lopez Cobos, Zoltan Kocsis, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Thomas Hanus, Michael Christie, Gianandrea Noseda, Barry Wordsworth, Eri Klas, David Itkin, Keri-Lynn Wilson and JoAnn Falletta.

Mr. Bidini’s 9/10 North American appearances includes his fourth return to the Buffalo where he performs the Ravel G Major Concerto with JoAnn Falletta conducting.  He will also tour with the orchestra in Florida performing in Sarasota, Vero Beach, Gainesville and Daytona Beach.  He opens the Louisiana Philharmonic’s season performing the Rachmaninoff Paganini Variations with Carlos Miguel Prieto conducting.

His North American appearances in 08-09 included returns to the orchestras of Phoenix, and Rhode Island and performances with the Syracuse and Annapolis Symphonies.

Highlights of Mr. Bidini’s 2007-08 season included appearances with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, the Virginia Symphony, the Pensacola Symphony, the Reno Chamber Orchestra and the Las Cruces Symphony.  He returne to Cincinnati for a recital appearance at Xavier University’s prestigious piano series.

In the 06-07 season, Mr. Bidini’s North American appearances included a return to the Honolulu Symphony and performances with the Symphony Orchestras of Utah, Tucson and Southeast Texas.  In addition to his Xavier University recital, he performed  at the University of Oklahoma and the Casals Festival.

In Italy, Mr. Bidini is regularly invited to the Brescia and Bergamo International Piano Festival, the most important Piano Festival in Italy, and as a chamber musician, Mr. Bidini works with many distinguished artists including Zoltan Kocsis, Eva Urbanova, Eva Mei, Alexis-Pia Gerlach, the Janacek Quartet, Antonio Tinelli, Dmitri Maktin, Maurizio Baglini and Jeffrey Swann.

A native of Arezzo, Italy, Mr. Bidini began his piano studies at the age of five.  Following ten years of private study, he enrolled in the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome where he graduated magna cum laude, then went on to study composition at the Florence Conservatory.   His teachers have included Orazio Frugoni (pupil of Alfredo Casella and Dinu Lipatti) and Maria Tipo (pupil of Scaramuzza, Casella, Agosti). 

Mr. Bidini made his North American debut in 1993 at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s Beethoven Summer Festival performing Beethoven’s Fantasy for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra Op. 80 with the Atlanta Symphony under the baton of Yoel Levi.

Mr. Bidini has been awarded first prize in eleven of Italy’s most prestigious national piano competitions and has been the recipient of the top prizes awarded in eight international competitions - Terni, Köln, Busoni 1988 and 1992, Pretoria, Marsala, London and the Van Cliburn Fort Worth.

In Italy, he is an  active conductor as well, working with chamber orchestras in several cities.
Fabio Bidini has recorded a total of 10 CDs for the BMG, EPR, Classichord, Musikstrasse and True Sounds labels.

Mr. Bidini is a professor of piano at Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler" in Berlin.

Website: http://www.fabiobidini.com

Critical Acclaim

Rocky Mountain News
Marc Shulgold

Colorado Symphony, Chopin e minor Concerto

"The Italian pianist Fabio Bidini brought a velvety tone to the moonstruck passages -- of which there are oodles -- and stormed with bravura through the numerous extroverted moments. Supported wonderfully by Christie's muscular yet sympathetic accompaniment, the pianist allowed the concerto to unfold with naturalness and an unforced quality. The relaxed sighings of the gorgeous Romanze have rarely cast such a spell on the listener. Time seemed to stand still, as Bidini and the muted strings of the CSO floated through the music.

Even before the Finale began, this performance had become a treasured highlight of the season."

The Dallas Morning News
By Scott Cantrell

"In our day of so much shrink-wrapped, portion-controlled pianism, so much of it as flavorful as airline food, an artist such as Fabio Bidini is doubly to be cherished. Appearing Saturday evening at the University of Texas at Arlington, at Irons Recital Hall, the Italian pianist held the music in a passionate, personal embrace. Beethoven and Chopin alternately glowed and blazed in his hands."

Special to the San Antonio Express-News
By Diane Windeler

"The agenda was mostly romantic — Schumann's "Symphonic Etudes" and some sumptuous Chopin — preceded by a graceful, crisply articulated account of the Bach-Busoni Chaconne in D-minor.

Bidini's approach is one of patrician elegance, tempered with warmth and occasionally spiced with the unexpected."