Piano Masterclass by Bruno CANINO

Bruno CANINO (pianist)

At the age of 87 Bruno Canino is still active in teaching and performing.

Born in Naples in 1935, Bruno Canino studied piano with Enzo Calace and composition with Bruno Bettinelli at the Milan Conservatory. Immediately considered one of the best accompanist pianists around, he also distinguished himself as a concert performer in the international competitions of Bolzano (“Ferruccio Busoni”) and Darmstadt at the end of the fifties.

He then began a long career as a concert and chamber musician all over the world, during which he collaborated with artists such as Cathy Berberian, Severino Gazzelloni, Itzhak Perlman, Salvatore Accardo, Oleksandr Semchuk, Uto Ughi, Alessio Bidoli, András Schiff, Ksenia Milas, Viktoria Mullova, (with whom she won the Edison Prize in 1980), Luisa Sello and David Garrett.

Canino played for many years in piano duo with Antonio Ballista and in the Milan Trio (first with Cesare Ferraresi, then with Mariana Sirbu -violin- and Rocco Filippini -cello-). He has attended the modern and contemporary repertoire with particular assiduity (Busoni, Berio, Stockhausen, Rihm, Kagel), also collaborating with young instrumentalists. Among his most important recordings: the Goldberg Variations by Johann Sebastian Bach, the complete piano works by Alfredo Casella and the first complete piano works by Claude Debussy on compact disc.

Canino was a piano teacher at the Milan Conservatory and at the Bern Hochschule. He regularly gives master classes in musical institutions around the world. He is currently a music teacher at the Fiesole Music School and has taught at the Escuela Reina Sofia.

He also exercised the activity of artistic director for some organizations (such as the Giovine Orchestra Genovese, from 1986 to 1995), and in 1999-2002 he was musical director of the Venice Biennale.

The masterclass will be conducted in English.

Performers of the masterclass will be registered separately and will open to HKUST students only.

REMARKS

• Free admission with registration.
• Online registration is required; each registration admits one person only.
• Please arrive 15 minutes before the showtime.
• Age Limit: Children under the age of 6 will not be admitted.
• The organizer reserves the right in its sole discretion to make changes to the event program without prior notice.