ABOUT THE GUEST ARTIST Italian-born pianist Enrico Elisi has earned international recognition for his performances across four continents. Praised for his “mastery of elegance, refinement, and fantasy” (La Nueva España) and “remarkable sensitivity, imagination, and polish” (Baltimore Sun), he has given recitals at major venues throughout Europe, and has performed to acclaim in Japan, South Korea (IBK Hall, Seoul), China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Singapore, Peru (Cen- tro Cultural de España, Lima), and Canada (Banff Centre) and at notable venues in the United States, including the National Gallery of Art, the Italian Embassy in Washington, DC, the New York Public and Morgan Libraries, and Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall. He recorded works by Mozart, with an upcoming release featuring selected Partitas and Preludes by J. S. Bach. Additionally, he has been featured in TV broadcasts, including the Rádio e Televisão de Portugal and WPSU (USA). He has appeared on radio stations such as Montebeni Classica FM (Italy), WCLV Cleveland, UNC, KCNV Nevada Public Radio, and KGCS. Via Classica Radio showcased him in a two-hour recital and interview broadcast from Hamburg (Germany). An avid chamber musician, Elisi collaborated with the New Orford String Quartet and principal players from the Baltimore, Chicago, and American Symphony Orchestras and worked with accomplished partners such as Federico Agostini. A frequent guest at music festivals worldwide, Elisi performed and conducted masterclass- es at Cincinnati’s “Art of the Piano,” Interlochen Center for the Arts, Texas State, Artciál, RPPF, and the Chautauqua Institution in the USA; VIPA Valencia in Spain; Todi Music Masters, Conero Festival, Amalfi Coast in Italy; Borromeo in Switzerland; The Thinking Pianist in England; and the Ameri-China Foundation and Sichuan International Piano Festival in China. He served on the jury of numerous international contests, including the Peabody Yale Gordon, Iowa, SMU Concerto, and Dallas International competitions in the United States; the Stepping Stone and RCM’s Glenn Gould School Concerto competitions in Canada; the Pacific Rim in Australia and New Zealand. Elisi also served as the chairper - son for the Nuova Coppa Pianisti in Osimo and the Palma d’Oro in Italy. He has taught a myriad of masterclasses at prestigious institutions across the United States, Canada, Peru, Denmark, Italy, Turkey, Taiwan, China, Singapore, Indonesia, Japan, and Korea; he has also been a featured concert artist at state conferences for the Florida, Missouri, and Oklahoma Music Teachers Associations and has participated in the American Liszt Society Festivals at Northwestern University and the University of Georgia. Dr. Elisi holds the Harold D. and Imogene Herndon Endowed Professorship of Music in Piano at Texas Christian University. Throughout his distinguished teaching career, he has taught at the University of Toronto (which has recognized him with the FoM Teaching Award for his excellence, commitment, and innovation in teaching), the Eastman School of Music, Penn State University, and UNLV. Elisi’s primary teachers include Leon Fleisher, Lazar Berman, Alexander Lonquich, Franco Scala, Boris Petrushansky, and Giuseppe Fricelli. His musical education began at the Conservatories of Bologna and Florence; it continued at the International Piano Academy of Imola, the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, and the Taos and Ravinia Festivals, where he delved into chamber music with Robert McDonald, Mena- hem Pressler, Gilbert Kalish, and Claude Frank. He became a citizen of the United States of America in 2012 and is a Steinway Artist.
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