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Francesco Piemontesi has always been fascinated by the sound of bells. Church bells that he remembers hearing during his childhood in Ticino. When he plays the piano, he is able to suggest a whole palette of sound colors, playing on the effects of resonance, with a velvety and luminescent touch, for Schubert for example. But he also indulges in fiery impulses, as in the big Sonata in SI minor From Liszt acclaimed last Friday at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival.
Winner of a Swiss Music Prize in 2020, playing in the largest rooms in Europe, the United States and Asia, collaborating with training like the Berlin Philharmonic and the New York Philharmonic, Francesco Piemontesi is the current Swiss pianist with the most radiant career. Concentration, sensitivity, ability to impregnate its interpretations of a poetic dimension: this esthete born in Locarno, established for many years in Berlin, continues to mature his art. For the opening of the new season of the orchestra of French -speaking Switzerland (OSR), he will play a creation by the Swiss composer Beat Furrer alongside Chef Jonathan Nott, then he will address the poetic 4th concert De Beethoven in January 2026, with Renaud Capuçon and the Lausanne chamber orchestra.