Piano Recital

one piano, one pianist. Here, Francesco Tristano does what he does best: piano playing. In his piano recitals, which he has been giving since age 13, he explores an extreme or marginal repertoire, linking ancient composers like Girolamo Frescobaldi or Orlando Gibbons with the likes of John Cage, Luciano Berio or his own work. The music of Johann Sebastian Bach has been a leitmotif ever since Francesco started playing the piano. After the concertos and the French Suites, this season sees Francesco focusing on the Partitas and presenting his debut album on deutsche gramophone: ‘bachCage’. In recent years FT has been an advocate of exploring new shapes of the piano recital: programs are often interpreted without breaks (“playlist”- like) and /or amplified, exploring the sonic possibilities of the instrument through real-time processing.

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Soloist with orchestra

performing with orchestra since the age of 12, Francesco gave his US concerto debut in 2000 in Ann Arbor, Michigan performing Scriabin with the Russian National Orchestra lead by Mikhail Pletnev. During his student years, He gave the US premiere of Hans Abrahamsen’s Piano Concerto in New York City. This season sees Francesco as artist-in-residence at the Hamburger Symphoniker where Francesco is performing piano concertos by Messiaen, Debussy & Prokofiev. Apart from specializing in concertos of the 20th century, Francesco has co-founded The New Bach Players, a chamber orchestra with whom he toured Europe and recorded the Complete piano concertos by Bach. All conducted by Francesco from the piano.

Francesco Tristano Schlimé & the Russian National Orchestra
Conductor Mikhail Pletnev
Recorded @ The Grand Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory
Moscow – April 2005
MAURICE RAVEL (1875-1937)
PIANO CONCERTO IN G (1931)
3. Presto

Live Club Set

rhythm is rhythm, music is music. And it would definitely sound different without Tristano. Whether he races across the keys or tweaks the knobs of his various controllers and synthesizers, FT explores a new symbiosis between the organic and the sequence, generating a new form of dance music. Thanks to Tristano, avant-garde is back in the clubs.

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