National Theatre Sarajevo

 

L. van Beethoven: Overture Prometheus op. 43
                              Piano concerto no. 1, C major, op. 15
                              Symphony no. 6, F major, op. 68  "Pastoral"

 

GIUSEPPE BRUNO, Italy

Conductor & Piano

 

 

Giuseppe BRUNO

 

Giuseppe BRUNO graduated with honours in Piano, Composition and Conducting with professors Specchi, Zangelmi and Taverna. He has then followed masterclasses with Paolo Bordoni (piano) and Leopold Hager (conducting, at Salzburg Mozarteum), and a composition seminar at Ircam, Paris. Following his debut at 17, he has been playing solo and chamber music in three continents and recorded a huge number of CDs. In the meantime, he has conducted (often from the piano) many orchestras in Italy, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, such as Archi della Scala, Orchestra della Toscana, Kremlin Chamber Orchestra. He has given the first performance of many contemporary pieces and the first Italian performance of Liszt’s “Sardanapalo”, an opera reconstructed by the English scholar David Trippett. His chamber transcription of Mahler’s “Purgatorio” movement of Tenth Symphony has been published by Universal Edition, Vienna. He currently teaches at “Puccini” Conservatoire in La Spezia, which he has chaired from 2008 to 2014.