Emilio Aversano Πιάνο
Emilio Aversano, from Salerno, Italy, began his successful career as a concert pianist while still a teenager performing as soloist with prestigious international orchestras (Bacau, Vidin, Ploiesti, SBS Youth Orchestra, Sidney etc.).
Since 2002 he has become one of the most highly sought-after italian performers thanks to his now famous piano marathons. In 2002 he made his debut for the Milan Società dei Concerti in the renowned Sala Verdi of the Conservatoire performing during the same concert Tchaikovsky's Concerto No.1 and Rachmaninov's Concerto No.2 with the Bacau Philharmonic Orchestra directed by O. Balan. The audience of over 1.600 granted him a standing ovation. The concert was recorded live and published on CD by Phoenix Classics receiving enthusiastic reviews in the “Gazzetta di Parma” (Giampaolo Minardi) and “Il Sole 24 Ore” (Carla Moreni).
In 2004 he added Mozart's Concerto K488 to the marathon which he performed in the Sala Verdi of the Turin Conservatoire. In 2005 he gave a recital in the “Marmorsaal” at the Mirabell Castle in Salzburg and in 2006 he gave a concert at the International Club “Chateau S. Anne”, Bruxelles. He debuted in Norway at the University of Oslo in the presence of the Italian ambassador in 2007 and in the same year was invited to play in the “Benjamin Britten” Theatre at the Royal College of Music, London and at the Italian Institute of Culture.
On 14 May 2008 Aversano undertook what has been defined “the piano marathon of the century” at the Teatro Dal Verme, Milan, performing four concertos in one evening (Mozart K488, Rachmaninov No.2, Tchaikovsky No.1 and Liszt No.2) receiving rave reviews from Gian Mario Benzing, music critic of “Il Corriere della Sera”: “Never seen anything like it…Aversano has tamed the monsters in an incredible crescendo of strength and virtuosity. Talent and hard work, memory and solidity; what great virtues this artist has had to cultivate in order to achieve such a result…”.
In October 2010 the piano marathon reached its apotheosis when Aversano performed as many as five concertos one after the other (the previous four to which he added Schumann) once again at the Teatro Dal Verme, Milan. The daily newspaper “La Repubblica” reported at length on the event. A live CD recording of the performance has since been presented during a conference-recital in the Sala del Grechetto at the Biblioteca Centrale chaired by the critic G. M. Benzing of “Il Corriere della Sera”. The illustrious musicologist Quirino Principe, present at the event, later recalled in an article published in Il Sole 24 Ore “meeting Emilio Aversano in Milan we had a clear illumination as to how cultured, refined, Hellenic and European at the same time this artist from our deep south can be...”.
Aversano has been interviewed by the first Channel of Italian State Television (RAI) and by the daily prestigious newspaper “Il Corriere della Sera” which has defined him “the inventor of a genre”. A long article about him was published in the colour supplement (“Sette”) of the same newspaper.
In 2014 Aversano took part in a critical discussion with G. M. Benzing on the theme of Beethoven and the poetry of Homer and Shakespeare by way of introduction to a his concert of Beethoven sonatas at the Biblioteca Nazionale, Milan, organized by “Serate Musicali” and he gave a recital in “Villa Rufolo” at Ravello Festival.
He performed new piano marathons at the Konzertsaal of Universität der Kunste in Berlin and at the Gewandhaus, Leipzig. Next autumn he will play with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo directed by Giancarlo De Lorenzo at the Teatro dell'Opera del Casinò in Sanremo (Italy) and he will perform his famous marathon at the Megaron in Salonika (Greece) in “Dimitria Festival” with the City Orchestra of Salonika conducted by Panagiotis Diamantis. Future commitments include also the presentation of this CD recording at a special recital to be organised by the Italian Institute of Culture in Berlin.
Aversano is Professor of Piano at the Conservatoire of Vibo Valentia and holds a cum laude degree in Literature and Philosophy at University of Salerno. Among his teachers, the most prestigious was the recently deceased Italian pianist Aldo Ciccolini.
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