Maestri 2010
Canino, Bruno
Born in Naples, Bruno Canino studied piano at the Conservatory of Naples with Vincenzo Vitale. He graduated in piano and composition with Enzo Calace and Bruno Bettinelli in Milan. Bruno has performed as soloist and chamber musician in the most important concert halls in Europe, America, Australia, Japan and China. He has been playing duos with Antonio Ballista for over 50 years and has been a member of the "Trio di Milano" for the past 40 years. He has collaborated with renowned artists such as Salvatore Accardo, Uto Ughi, Lynn Harrell, Itzhak Perlman, Victoria Mullova and Pierre Amoyal. Bruno is Artistic Director of the Giovini Orchestra Genovese and of the "Campus Internazionale di Musica" in Latina. Between 1999 and 2001 he was head of the music section of the Biennale in Venice. He has also devoted himself to contemporary music, including several projects with Pierre Boulez, Luciano Berio, Karl-Heinz Stockhausen, György Ligeti, Bruno Maderna, Luigi Nono and Sylvano Bussotti, among others, and has given numerous first performances. He has played under the baton of Abbado, Muti, Chailly, Sawallisch, Berio and Boulez. Bruno has performed with orchestras such as the La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra, Santa Cecilia in Rome, the New York Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia of New York, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the French National Orchestra and the Concertgebouw. Bruno has been Piano Professor at the Milan Conservatory for twenty-four years and Professor of Piano Master Class and Modern Chamber Music at the Bern Musikhochschule for eleven years. He is often invited to be a juror in many of the major piano and/or chamber music competitions including Bolzano, Santander, Maryland, Graz, Vienna, Zurich and Leipzig. Amongst his many recordings are J.S, Bach's "Goldberg Variations", and the complete piano works by Alfredo Casella (Stradivarius). At present he is recording Debussy's complete works for piano. As a writer he published in 1997 "Vademecum per il pìanista da camera" (Passigli edition).