Filippo Gorini

FILIPPO GORINI

These concerts are generously sponsored by Kris and Michael Kern and Maryellen and Michael McCulloch.

SUN, JAN 7, 2024
4:00PM / Lincoln Performance Hall, PSU

TUES, JAN 9, 2024
7:30PM / Patricia Reser Center for the Arts

“touched by a fierce ecstasy”

One of the piano world's rising stars, praised for "brave, original playing" (Guardian) and performances "exploding with pure joie de vivre" (BBC Music Magazine), Filippo Gorini returns to PPI with a program exploring the vast range of human emotion.

Charting a journey of tragedy and turmoil, Berg's only piano sonata is a work of searing intensity written at the crossroads of romanticism and modernism, while Schubert's bucolic Sonata in A Major lyrically evokes the beauty of summer in the Austrian countryside. And in his towering Diabelli Variations, Beethoven uses a simple waltz as the springboard for daring feats of musical expression fueled by the composer's boundless imagination.

MICHELLE AGNÈS MAGALHÃES
New composition (premiere)

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Sonata No. 31 in A-flat Major, op. 110

ROBERT SCHUMANN
Davidsbündlertänze, op. 6

GET TO KNOW FILIPPO GORINI

NATIONALITY: Italian

HOME: Milan, Italy

NOTEWORTHY: Filippo has proposed a very different way of touring as an artist in 2025-26 and, he hopes, in years to come. “The idea is simple: Instead of constantly travelling from one concert venue to another, I will focus on seven cities in different parts of the world, staying in each for a full month and offering much more than a single performance.”

WHAT GIVES YOU ENERGY TO KEEP UP ALL THE CREATIVITY?

I get bored by absence of activity or novelty, so there are always a lot of ideas in the back of my head forming. If I have an impending concert, that is usually my focus and motivation in the days leading up to it, but in emptier periods I develop long term projects. One such project is “Sonata for Seven Cities.” (As noted above.)

WHAT IS A PRODUCT OF ANY KIND YOU RECOMMEND?

Good noise-cancelling earphones: I love silence, I hate noise . . . enough said!

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