Emanuele Torquati - Piano

Watch Emanuele Torquati plays Maurizio Azzan’s Time Changes the Memory of Things (2021). The video is part of the Play Further! Video Series.

Emanuele Torquati gained international recognition for his poetic and passionate music making, communicative performances and engaging programming. He has been hailed as “a thoughtful musician and a champion of contemporary music” by the New York Times and as “a vibrant pianist, excellent overall” by the Boston Globe. His flourishing career has taken him to some of Europe, Canada, America and Africa’s most illustrious venues, in such diverse cities as Addis Abeba, Buenos Aires (Teatro Colon), San Francisco, Toronto, Banff, New York, Chicago, Vancouver, Boston, Paris, Lyon, Frankfurt, Berlin, Leipzig, Berlin, Prague, Warsaw, Krakow, Munich, Graz, Ljubljana, Kiev and Oslo. His concerts have been broadcasted by RAI, BBC Radio3, Deutschland Radiokultur, MDR Kultur, Radio France, Swiss RSI, RTE Lyric  and Euroradio. Since 2015, he regularly collaborates with RAI Radio3 in the frame of “Lezioni di Musica” Programme.

As a soloist he has performed with such Orchestras as  Italian National Radio Orchestra (RAI), Lithuanian National Symphony, Buenos Aires Philarmonics, Avanti! Chamber Orchestra, Tuscany Regional Orchestra (ORT), Haydn Orchester Bozen. A notable performer of new music and an avid chamber musician, he enjoys a diverse and varied career as a pianist. He was artist in residence at The Banff Centre with the project “Voyage Messiaen” in 2008 and in 2010 with “Intimate Sketches: Visions on Leos Janàcek”, and more recently at the Italian Cultural Institut in Paris within the program “Les Promesses de l’Art”. His first recording, “Promenade sentimentale”, devoted to the Complete Piano Music of Albert Roussel has been followed by the Complete Piano Music by Alexander Zemlinsky and “The Vale of Dreams” (Charles Griffes Piano Music) for Brilliantclassics. In 2021 his new solo project “L’Anima e la Danza” featuring music from Couperin to nowadays, has been released by Stradivarius. His releases with New Music includes CDs with COL LEGNO, KAIROS, NEOS, RTV. With cellist Francesco Dillon, he recorded 3 Cds with Schumann rarities, Complete Works by Franz Liszt, and Brahms Lieder and Hungarian Dances. 
Moreover, he has worked intensively with leading composers including Salvatore Sciarrino, Francesco Filidei, Sylvano Bussotti, Wolfgang Rihm, Kaija Saariaho, Beat Furrer, Jonathan Harvey, Brett Dean, Philip Glass, Thomas Larcher, Magnus Lindberg, Peter Ablinger and he has collaborated among others with musicians such as Isabel Charisius, Matthias Pintscher, Michael Gielen, Marisol Montalvo, Garth Knox, Susanne Linke, Inon Barnatan and Prometeo String Quartet. The recipient of several international awards, Torquati has been supported by Institutions such as CEMAT, Accademia Musicale Chigiana, DAAD Bonn, Ambassade de France en Italie, Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Graz, Ensemble Modern, The Banff Centre. He has been invited to give Masterclasses within several Universities and Conservatories in Italy and abroad, a.o. for New York University, Boston University, University of La Plata and Universidad Popular de Còrdoba (Argentina), Trinity College Dublin and Southampton University. He is currently Professor at State Conservatory “G. F. Ghedini” in Cuneo.

His most influential teachers were Giancarlo Cardini and Konstantin Bogino. He also worked closely with Alexander Lonquich, Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen, Ian Pace, Michael Wendeberg. He went on to specialize in Chamber Music first with Franco Rossi (Quartetto Italiano), then he achieved a Master Degree at the International Chamber Music Academy of the Trio di Trieste. He has been for 10 years Artistic Director of music@villaromana for German institution Villa Romana in Florence.

www.emanueletorquati.com

See also the biography of Duo Dillon-Torquati, a cello and piano duo of Francesco Dillon and Emanuele Torquati.