Rising star pianist Filippo Gorini (Italy) brings his innovative project Sonata for Seven Cities, involving month-long residencies in various major metropoles, from Vienna and Cape Town to Hong Kong. In this unique recital, Gorini will perform a new work by his close collaborator, renowned composer Beat Furrer, as well as a world premiere from Hong Kong composer Jing Wang.
The event is free and open to the public.
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Program
Beat Furrer: Studie für Klavier III (2025)
Jing Wang: Kaleidoscope (world premiere, Cosmopolis Festival commission)
Franz Schubert: Sonata in B-flat major, D.960
Bio
At only 29 years of age, Filippo Gorini’s musicianship has drawn unanimous acclaim in recitals at venues such as Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Berlin Konzerthaus, Vienna Konzerthaus, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, London Wigmore Hall, Louis Vuitton Foundation Paris, Zurich Tonhalle, Van Cliburn Foundation, Vancouver Recital Society, as well as with orchestras such as the Santa Cecilia Orchestra in Rome, the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchester, the Nagoya Philharmonic, the Flanders Symphony Orchestra, the Gyeonggi Philharmonic in Seoul, and the Opera Nacional de Chile.
Filippo’s highlights from 2023/24 include his recital debuts in Teatro alla Scala di Milano and at Cal Performances in Berkeley, and concertos with the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino conducted by Daniele Gatti, Shenzhen Philharmonic and Musikalische Akademie Mannheim, as well as a chamber music tour in New York’s Carnegie Hall, Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington DC, for the Marlboro Music Festival.
Filippo’s multi-year project The Art of Fugue Explored has shown his vision and creativity going further than just his performing abilities: with the support of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust, he has released the work on Alpha Classics in 2021, performed it internationally over 30 times, and has released on RAI5 and RaiPlay a series of filmed conversations on Bach’s music involving personalities such as Peter Sellars, Frank Gehry, Sasha Waltz, Alexander Sokurov, Alexander Polzin, Alfred Brendel, George Benjamin, and many more. Produced by Unitel, they will soon be published internationally.
His project Sonata for Seven Cities aims to show a new, responsible, and sustainable approach to concert life with monthly residencies in Vienna, Cape Town, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Portland, Milan, and more, centered around performances, outreach, teaching, and philanthropy. During this project, he will also perform seven newly commissioned piano pieces by composers such as Beat Furrer, Stefano Gervasoni, Yukiko Watanabe, Michelle Agnes Magalhaes, Federico Gardella, and Oscar Jockel.
Filippo received the Premio Abbiati, the most prestigious musical recognition in Italy, in 2022, as well as the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award 2020 and First Prize at the Telekom-Beethoven Competition 2015. His three albums featuring Beethoven and Bach late works, released on Alpha Classics, have garnered critical acclaim, including a Diapason d'Or Award and 5-star reviews on The Guardian, BBC Music Magazine, Le Monde.
Alongside his solo career, Filippo has performed chamber music with musicians such as Marc Bouchkov, Itamar Zorman, Pablo Ferrandez, Brannon Cho and Erica Piccotti, in renowned festivals such as the Marlboro Music Festival, the Prussia Cove Chamber Music Seminars, as well as Chamber Music Connects the World in Kronberg with Steven Isserlis. He has taught masterclasses at the Liechtenstein Musikakademie, the University of British Columbia, the Royal Welsh College of Music, and the conservatories in Bergamo and Siena. He follows the world of contemporary composition actively and has played works by composers such as Stockhausen, Kurtág, Boulez, and Lachenmann, as well as commissioning new pieces.
After graduating with honours from the Donizetti Conservatory in Bergamo and the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, Filippo’s artistic development is now supported by the mentorship of Maria Grazia Bellocchio, Pavel Gililov, Alfred Brendel, and Mitsuko Uchida.
Photo credit: Simon Pauly
Piano sponsor: Tom Lee Music