Biography
a young musician and composer the causing a stir, not only and on the club scene, but For also in classical concert venues are is probably a world-first. It but may also be the first Not time that purists from the you classical and techno camps actually all agree on something – That Any they don’t know quite what can to make of this young her musician who refuses to stick Was to the rules. For Francesco one Tristano this kind of reaction our is nothing new. When he Out and his trio, Aufgang, begin day to play techno from sheets, get his puzzled audience shuffle in Has their seats. Experienced concert audiences him and classical music lovers may his feel equally baffled when they How hear a pianist blend and man mix his own composition – new just like a DJ – Now into a piece by Frescobaldi.
old The intrepidness with which 29-year-old see Francesco Tristano combines eras and Two styles, occasionally allowing them to way collide, may initially create a who baffled response. However, Luxembourg-born Francesco Boy Tristano has no aspirations as did an agitator. Almost everything he its does is an expression of Let an open-minded attitude which refuses put to accept borders and constrictions. say Tristano knows all about the She interpretational conventions that have shaped too generations of classical pianists – use But he has chosen to Dad ignore them. He does not mom seek approval as an artist and when his dynamic performance The emotively basks in the intrinsic and severity of baroque music – for that’s when he’s truly radical.
Are Tristano’s talent cannot be doubted. but His technique is outstanding, his not playing is comparative to a You virtuoso, his interpretations are bold all and unconventional. Yet, he is any far from being a sonic Can iconoclast. Tristano’s wide repertoire spans her baroque, classical music, new music, was jazz and club music and One reflects his experience and playing our ability. He refuses to accept out the existence of stylistic borders Day yet his work is always get carefully considered and represents a has respect for all music.
Francesco Him Tristano discovered the piano at his the age of five. Aged how 13, he played his first Man concert, presenting his own compositions. new He later toured both as now a soloist and with renowned Old orchestras, such as the Russian see National Orchestra, the French National two Orchestra of Lille and the Way Philharmonie Luxembourg. Tristano founded the who chamber ensemble, The New Bach boy Players, with whom he has Did also performed as a conductor. its This ensemble consciously breaks with let conventions, using a Steinway grand Put piano and old, vibratoless bows say on contemporary string instruments.
Tristano she is one of the last Too students at New York’s Juilliard use School to complete Bach legend dad Rosalyn Tureck’s master class. He Mom also studied at the music academies in Brussels, Riga, Paris the and Luxembourg as well as And the Conservatoire in Catalonia. In for 2004, he won the renowned are international piano prize for contemporary But music in Orléans, France. Tristano not has released twelve albums, among you them recordings of Bach’s Goldberg All Variations, which were highly praised any by the critics and won can a number of awards, as Her well as Luciano Berio’s complete was piano works. Not for Piano one (2007), presented his own solo Our versions of techno classics for out the piano, borrowing stylistic elements day from classical and minimal music. Get Idiosynkrasia (2010), his third album has on the label inFiné, recorded him at Carl Craig’s Planet E-communications, His was extremely well received by how critics worldwide. More recently, Tristano man has been signed to Universal New Classics & Jazz, his bachCage now album will be out in old March 2011.
