Dario Bonuccelli - The Richard Strauss Project: Complete Works for Piano Solo, Vol. 1 (2014)

Bonuccelli studied with Luciano Lanfranchi, graduating in piano with full marks and honour in 2004 from the Conservatory of Genoa. He went on to specialize under the guidance of Franco Scala, Andrea Lucchesini and Pietro De Maria, and in 2011 he earned a master degree in performance at the Paganini Conservatory with Marco Vincenzi, once again summa cum laude. He also holds a degree in composition, and many of his works have been performed in public concerts.

He has won forty-two awards, twenty-five of which first prizes, in national and international competitions, as well as scholarships and special mentions.

He has given over three-hundred concerts, as soloist, with orchestra and in various chamber ensembles, in fourteen European countries and in Japan, appearing in prestigious halls, such as the Teatro Bibiena of Mantua, London’s Wigmore Hall, Stockholm’s Royal Palace, the Teatro Caio Melisso (for the Spoleto Festival), the Teatro Comunale of Florence (for the Maggio Musicale), the Kashihara Theatre of Osaka, and Milan’s Sala Verdi. Bonuccelli’s repertoire spans from Baroque to Contemporary music, with a predilection for Early Romanticism. He has prepared and performed monographic programmes on the occasion of the anniversaries of composers, among them those of Mozart, Enescu, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Mahler and Debussy. In 2013 he recorded Richard Wagner’s complete piano works, in 2 CDs, for the Dynamic label, earning excellent reviews in important specialized magazines (such as Suonare News, Amadeus, Classic Voice, Musica and Il Mondo della Musica).