DAVIDE FRANCESCHETTI
Italy
Born in 1976, critically acclaimed Italian pianist, Davide Franceschetti won the Silver Medal at the Leeds International Piano Competition in 2000. His rivetting performance of the Brahms Piano Concerto op. 15 with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Sir Simon Rattle garnered high praise from both the elite jury and Maestro Rattle.
In 2001 he received the Steven De Groote Memorial Award for the Best Performance in Chamber Music and a Jury Discretionary Award at the Van Cliburn Competition in Fort Worth, Texas. At the young age of 17, he was awarded the fourth prize at the International Piano Competition Ferruccio Busoni in Bolzano. He then continued to take the Grand prize at the GPA Dublin International Piano Competition only one year later. Popolar with both critics and audiences alike, his success in Dublin then led to series of concerts and recitals worldwide. These included his debuts at the Wigmore Hall in London in November 1995, Alice Tully Hall in New York in March 1996, as well as numerous appearances all throughout the USA, Hawaii, Mexico, Cina and Japan.
Highlights of some of his other recital engagements included performances in Salt Lake City, Kennedy Center in Washington DC, in Vienna, the Festival de Brignoles in France, the Festival of Great Irish Houses, the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in Finland, the City Art Gallery in Leeds, Dublin National Concert Hall, Salle Cortot in Paris, Belfast Waterfront Hall, Konzerthaus Berlin, Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Piano Festival of Lille, and Italian Theaters in Modena, Imola, Bologna, Cesena, Ravenna, Pisa, Udine, Trieste, Monfalcone, Verona, Trento, Roma, Auditorium Mahler in Milano, Politeama in Palermo, Bibiena in Mantova, sala Mozart in Bologna, and many music societies like Società dei Concerti di Milano, Società del Quartetto di Vicenza, Associazione A. Scarlatti di Napoli, Società Filarmonica di Trento, Settembre Musica Torino, Società del Quartetto Vercelli, Accademia Filarmonica Romana, Società Quartetto Busto Arsizio.
In 2001 he gave his debut recital at Symphony Hall in Birmingham. This recital was subsequently broadcast on BBC’s Radio3. He then went on to give his first tour in Scotland, which included debuts in Aberdeen, at the Queen’s Hall in Edimburgh and the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow. In 2002, another one of his recitals was recorded live from the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester for yet another BBC broadcast. Some other engagements included recitals at the Brighton Festival in England, Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels and the Holkham Hall in Norfolk. Some of his solo recitals were then broadcast for Deutschland Radio and RAI3 from Quirinale in Rome, as well as a series of his chamber music collaborations at the Oxford Chamber Music Festival.
He has worked with such artists as Heinrich Schiff, Isabelle Faust, Renaud Capucon, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Natalie Clein, Christian Poltera, Priya Mitchell, Henning Kraggerud, Jorg Widmann, Vladimir Mendelssohn and Rocco Filippini and many conductors like Giuseppe Garbarino, Angelo Campori, Nicholas Kraemer, David Gilbert, Ron Spigelman, Ivailo Krinchev, Matthias Bamert, Marco Zuccarini, Kasper De Roo, Alasdair Neale, Garry Walzer, Paolo Olmi, Mark Stringer, Andreas Weiser, Edward Warren, Julian Kovatchev, Juan Carlos Lomonaco, Baldur Bronnimann, Giancarlo De Lorenzo, Barry Wordsworth, Giuliano Silveri, Emin Guven Yaslicam, Vassil Kazandjiev, Howard Griffiths, Pietro Borgonovo. Some of his concerto performances include his debut in Berlin performing Brahms Piano Concerto op. 83 in the Berlin Philharmonie with the Deutsches Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin.
Other performances include repeat engagements with the Istanbul Orchestra in Turkey, in Ireland with The RTE National Symphony, Irish Chamber, and Ulster Orchestras, and an Irish tour with the San Francisco Youth Orchestra; in the UK with the Hallè Orchestra, English Northern Philharmonia, Lakeland Sinfonia and the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra; in the USA with the Greenwich Symphony and the Texas Chamber Orchestras; in Bulgaria in a televised performance with the Rousse Opera Philharmonic, and in Finland with the Tapioca Sinfonietta as part of the Espoo International Piano Festival in Helsinki.
He played also with Opera North, Lakeland Sinfonia, Sinfonica Guanajuato, Sinfonica Mexico City, Orchestra Sinfonica Abruzzese, Orchestra Toscanini, Orchestra da Camera di Padova e del Veneto, Orchestra di Lecce, Orchestra Filarmonica di Udine, Orchestra ProArte Marche, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana. Not content to comunicate music solely at the piano, Mr. Franceschetti has most recently had his debut of two Mozart Piano Concerti as a conductor/performer with the G. Verdi Sinfonica Orchestra of Milan.
In 2007 and 2009 Mr. Franceschetti has been invited as a jury member in the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition in Vevey, Switzerland. When not performing,
Mr. Franceschetti dedicates his time to sharing and teaching music with aspiring young and talented pianists. A student of the Imola Piano Academy and the International Piano Academy Lake Como, studying with Antonio Ballista, Dmitri Bashkirov, Lazar Berman, Leon Fleisher, Claude Frank, Alexander Lonquich, Piernarciso Masi, William Grant Naborè, John O’Conor, John Perry, Menahem Pressler, Piero Rattalino, Charles Rosen, Franco Scala, Andreas Staier and Fou Ts’ong.
