Antonio Piricone

Antonio Piricone, winner of the First Prize at the Van Wassenaer Concours in Amsterdam (2009) and recipient of the Clementi Award in England (2011), studied under the guidance of Jacques Ogg, Stanley Hoogland, Andreas Staier, and Sally Sargent.
 

As a soloist and chamber musician on both modern and historical keyboard instruments, his distinctive artistic voice has earned him an increasingly prominent presence at leading international concert halls and festivals. He regularly collaborates with internationally renowned musicians and has performed at venues including the Essen Philharmonie, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, Warsaw Chopin Festival, Cité de la Musique (Paris), La Folle Journée Bilbao, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space, with Concerto Köln, Collegium 1704, and the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra.

His growing discography, frequently featured by major international broadcasters, includes the complete English Suites by J. S. Bach and the critically acclaimed album De Meglio 1826, named Album of the Year by Junge Welt in 2017. In 2021, he appeared in a documentary on the life and legacy of Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, featuring the restoration of the rare tangent piano by Baldassare Pastore (Milan, 1799), now part of the permanent exhibition of the Tagliavini Collection at San Colombano, Bologna.

Antonio Piricone is based in Italy and maintains close artistic ties with the Netherlands, where he continues to develop part of his artistic and research activities. His work focuses on historical performance practice and the evolution of keyboard instruments. He has taught at the Conservatories of Alessandria, Trapani and Como, as well as at Yaşar University (Turkey). He is currently Professor of Piano and Historical Keyboards at the “G. B. Martini” Conservatory of Music in Bologna.