Pianist Emanuele Arciuli has in recent years earned an outstanding reputation as a champion of both Classicism and Twentieth-Century Music, particularly the Second Viennese School and American contemporary music. His collaborations with composers including John Adams, George Crumb, Joel Hoffman, Aaron J. Kernis, Michael Nyman and Frederic Rzewski, have won him their enthusiastic response.

He performs regularly for many prestigious concert societies and orchestras in Italy and throughout Europe. He has been present in recitals at Teatro San Carlo (Naples), Teatro La Fenice (Venice), Teatro Carlo Felice (Genova), Teatro Municipal (Rio de Janeiro) among the others. He has performed as a soloist with orchestras such as Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale RAI in Turin, Orchestra Sinfonica Verdi in Milan, Orchestra Teatro La Fenice in Venice, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Orquestra Sinfonica Brasileira, Hungarian Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano and many others. Emanuele is regularly invited by music festivals as Berliner Festwochen, Biennale di Venezia (where he won the Golden Lion in 2007 performing the world premiere of Ambrosini's double piano concerto Plurimo), Settembre Musica (Turin), Ravello Festival, Festival Pianistico "A.B.Michelangeli" and many more.

Recent highlights include the world premiere of the new Piano Concerto by Michael Nyman with Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale RAI conducted by the composer, Beethoven Concertos Nos. 2 and 4 with Orquestra Sinfonica Brasileira in Rio, the Schnittke Piano Concerto at Teatro Comunale in Modena, the Italian premiere of John Adams Piano Concerto Century Rolls in Milan, Bartok Piano Concerto No. 3 with Orchestra Toscanini, Bernstein's Age of Anxiety with the St.Petersburg Philharmonic, and several new CDs.

In June 1998 he made his American debut at the Corbett Auditorium at the University of Cincinnati for "Music X" Festival and was re-invited for the following year's festival and for other recitals in the U.S. including Washington, Ann Arbor, Denver, Philadelphia, Boston, Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Milwaukee. Recipient of the "Patron of Exceptional Artist" award, he made his debut at The Miami Piano Festival in 2002. In November 2002 he premiered the Round Midnight variations in New York (at Miller Theater - Columbia University), a collection of variations on the famous Thelonious Monk theme, composed for him by major American musicians (Babbit, Bolcom, Crumb, Daugherty, Harbison, Hoffman, Kernis, Rzewski, Torke and many others).

He has recorded for the Stradivarius, VAI, Bridge and Chandos labels. His discography includes the complete piano works of Berg and Webern, the original version of the second book of Liszt's Annees de Pelerinage, the piano concerto of Bruno Maderna and an anthology of American piano music entitled Americans! In 2005 his recording of Crumb Eine Kleine Mitternachtmusik (released by Bridge) was nominated for Grammy Awards. In 2006 he won the italian critic award (best of the year) with Rzewski-Adams cd released by Stradivarius.

He teaches at the Conservatory of Bari and is Guest Faculty at the University of Cincinnati.

They talk about him:

Many Thanks to Emanuele Arciuli for a most beautiful performance of my Processional. You are a great artist and my music has never been more wonderfully performed.
George Crumb, Cincinnati OH, june '99

In the hands of the ardent Emanuele Arciuli everything has been conceived not as your conveniently neutral pitch-generator and theory tester but for the piano as its glorious self.
Richard Buell - The Boston Globe, 20 june 2000

Mr. Arciuli addressed what proved a hefty program with an ironclad technique as well as unflagging
energy and imagination.
Allan Kozinn - The New York Times, 21 november 2002

A Pianist who leaves an Indelible Impression.
Jeremy Eichler - The New York Times, 1 november 2004 Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.