Luciana Bigazzi - Live in Oslo - For Piano and Guitar (2020)

Luciana Bigazzi, a celebrated pianist and composer, began playing the pianoforte at the age of five.

The deep conviction that music is “one”, without any cultural barriers whatsoever, is a fundamental tenet in Luciana Bigazzi’s musical world: a world in which emotion transpires in interpretative nuances present in her execution of a piece and her excursion into wide compositorial spaces, with slow and evocative, episodes, alternated with other implicating rhythms in which the piano is fuelled by an incandescent engine which would appear to wish to continue ceaselessly.
Her particular talent as a “pianist-composer”, reveals a new, fresh and eclectic artistic personality.

Having gained the Diploma in the Pianoforte (at the Turin Conservatory), and the Diploma in the Harpsichord (at the Conservatory of Milan), her University Specialisation on the theme “Le culture musicali” (Musical Cultures) (University of “Tor Vergata” in Rome), she continued her advanced musical studies and the expansion of her repertoire of keyboard music of the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries with Emilia Fadini, Jörg Demus, Paul Badura Skoda and Lazar Berman.
She has taken part in numerous International Musical Festivals, and in television broadcasts by RAI Television, RAI International and other broadcasters.

She enjoys travelling and the arts, the nature and the scents of excellence have always fascinated her and his love for animals is present in his music. The photographic camera has always been and continues to be a notebook and diary of her life.

At the same time she has also developed her interest in the musical world of Jazz-Rock and Fusion, dedicating herself to the artistic production of specialised discografic projects including the production of CDs and videos of Maurizio Colonna and of the Maurizio Colonna duo (classical guiitar) e Frank Gambale (electric and acoustic guitar).

On January 2000 she was invited to perform at the Concert of the Epiphany (Concerto dell’Epifania) at the Monastery of Saint Clare (Monastero di Santa Chiara) in Naples in a duet with Maurizio Colonna, accompanied by the Orchestra of the Basilica of Saint Clare (Orchestra della Basilica di Santa Chiara) conducted by Renato Serio (Italian State Television “Radiotelevisione italiana – Rai Uno, RAI International – RAI Sat” – televised live – worldwide broadcast) and broadcast at a later stage on 6 January on Italian State Television 2000.

Her compositions are published by Carisch (Music Sales – UK) and Bèrben (Italy) and she has been responsible for producing and directing a series of music for Christmas Christmas Songs Collection, which includes original compositions and versions written by celebrated contemporary musicians for the same publisher.

She has made numerous discografic recordings as an original interpreter and since 2006, has made her discografic début with a project subtitled “Works for Piano” : the first album, Lacoste (NCM New Classic Music / EGEA Distribution – 2006), and the second, Passages (NCM New Classic Music / EGEA Distribution – 2008) have been very favourably received both by critics and her admiring general public. The third album, Magical Places (NCM New Classic Music / EGEA Distribution), released in January 2011, constitutes an important moment in her compositional career, in which a recognisable language emerges, supported and sustained by a high level of interpretative capacity.
The compositions which appear in the three CDs “Works for Piano” have been published by Carisch – Machiavelli Music Publishing.

In February 2009 she inaugurated the concert programme “The new italian instrumental music” in London, at the Italian Cultural Institute in London with a concert “Works for Piano”, which was dedicated to her own music.
On 4 December 2010 she presented, as a première, some compositions from Magical Places Works for Piano in concert held in the Auditorium of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto, Portugal (Auditorio de Faculdade de Engenharia), at the invitation of the Italian Embassy in Portugal and the Italian Consulate on the occasion of the exhibition “Porto, Bairro a Bairro”.

Magical Places has been subsequently presentated in Turin, Rome (also for RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana – Tg2 MIZAR) and in Naples, at the prestigious Sala Chopin.
On 16 April 2011 she played Magical Places in London and on 16 May 2011 she presented the project in Milan, playing for a live radio broadcast for the Lifegate Radio network.

On 17 December 2011 she performed in London in duo with Maurizio Colonna: from that evening, she recorded the live cd Reflections in the night – Live in London for piano and guitar (NCM/EGEA) released in June of 2012, dedicated to the compositions of the two musicians.
On June 2, 2012 she was a guest at the event television broadcast worldwide (RAI Uno), “One World, One Family, One Love“, with the presence of Pope Benedict XVI, on the World Meeting of Families.
On December 2012 she released the live cd Christmas for guitar and piano – Live (NCM/EGEA) with Maurizio Colonna, 2011 in Papal Basilica St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori in Pagani, near Salerno (Italy).

On March 30, 2013 she played at the television (broadcast worldwide – RAI Uno) at the Extraordinary exposition of the Holy Shroud for television (Turin Cathedral), playing her composition “Prayer“.

In 2013 Christmas Day plays for RAI Italian television (RAI Uno) for program Community broadcast from Rome for the Americas, Australia, Asia and Africa.

In November 2014, edited by the Italian Cultural Institute in Hong Kong and the Consulate General of Italy in Hong Kong, plays at Sheung Wan Civic Centre – Theatrein Hong Kong, with great acclaim from audiences and is host of the RoadshowTV-Hong Kong (RTDE-grandcity).

In January 2015 (NCM / EGEA Music) published the CD for piano Full Moon. In the album there are fifteen piano pieces, four of which were colored by her with suggestive electronic timbres.

The March 26, 2015 plays at “The Mall” in Milan on the occasion of the inauguration of “ESXENCE – The Scent of Excellence“, the worldwide event of high artistic perfumery: during the concert she plays her “Homage to Keiko Mecheri” with Keiko Mecheri, the famous international artist of the scent of excellence. The event was streamed and recorded in audio-video for ESXENCE.
In November 2015 it was released the CD “LIVE IN HONG KONG” (NCM / EGEA Music), recorded with guitarist Maurizio Colonna at Sheung Wan Civic Centre Theatre in Hong Kong.