Piano
Biography:
Carmen Piazzini comes from a well-known family of musicians in Buenos Aires, in whose house Claudio Arrau, Wilhelm Backhaus, Walter Gieseking, Arthur Rubinstein and Arturo Toscanini went in and out. Her grandfather Edmondo, a close friend of Toscanini, had emigrated from Italy to Argentina and founded the renowned Thibaud-Piazzini Conservatory there.
Carmen Piazzini received piano lessons at the age of five. Her great talent quickly became apparent and Vincenzo Scaramuzza, teacher of Martha Argerich and Bruno Leonardo Gelber, brought her to his piano school. At fifteen she was already a celebrated pianist with an unusually large repertoire. After moving to Germany, she took lessons from Hans Leygraf and was supported by Wilhelm Kempff for many years.
Concert hall, radio, television and more than 50 CD recordings document Carmen Piazzini's impressive solo career - with a repertoire that ranges from classical to contemporary music. She is particularly interested in chamber music; she is co-founder of the álvarez quartet. In 1998 she received the Argentine Press Prize for Best Pianist and in 2001 the renowned Tortoni Prize. From 1985 to 2006 she taught as a professor at the Musikhochschule in Karlsruhe. Carmen Piazzini lives in Darmstadt.
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