Instrumentalist - Piano
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Pianist Alessio Bax is praised for creating “a ravishing listening experience” with his lyrical playing, insightful interpretations, and dazzling facility. “His playing quivers with an almost hypnotic intensity,” says Gramophone magazine, leading to “an out-of-body experience” (Dallas Morning News). First Prize winner at the Leeds and Hamamatsu international piano competitions – and a 2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient – he has appeared as soloist with over 100 orchestras, including the London and Royal Philharmonic orchestras, the Dallas and Houston symphonies, the NHK Symphony in Japan, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic with Yuri Temirkanov, and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra with Sir Simon Rattle.

Posted: Jun-6-2013
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Alessio Bax was recognized on May 20 with a 2013 Martin E. Segal Award, which carries a cash prize of $7,500. Since 1987, Lincoln Center has conferred these prestigious awards annually on two emerging young artists or ensembles in recognition of their exceptional accomplishments.
Posted: May-20-2013
Latest Acclaim
"Bax performed with acute intensity and during the first two movements he exhibited pristine piano playing. The piano and the violins danced together, often vacillating between balance and dominance.

"Bax’s fingers bounced playfully on the keyboard and gracefully blended with the accompanying musicians during the final movement, which ended on a lively note. The concerto was uniquely comforting, tenderly melodic and surprisingly lighthearted."
— Muskegon Chronicle
Posted: Jun-1-2013
Latest Recording

The Italian-born pianist and Leeds competition winner Alessio Bax returns with his third solo recital disc for Signum. His programme surveys a selection of highlights from Brahms' pianistic output, charting his development from the early lyrical collection '4 Ballades' (1854) through to the 'eight perfect gems' that are the 8 Klavierstücke Op.76 (1871-78). Bax also tackles Brahms' fiendish set of 'Variations on a Theme of Pagainini, Op.35', which Bax describes in the programme notes as one of "the most fearsome works ever written for piano".

Posted: Oct-22-2012
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Posted: Dec-11-2012