Winner of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant for 2009, Alessio Bax is universally praised for his lyrical playing and insightful interpretations. His extensive concerto repertoire has led to appearances with over 80 orchestras including the London Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, Rome Symphony, Hungarian Symphony, and the Tokyo Symphony. He has worked with conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Marin Alsop, Alexander Dimitriev, Jonathan Nott, Vernon Handley, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Ken-ichiro Kobayashi, Dimitry and Sitkovetsky. His recording Baroque Reflections received rave reviews and was selected as “Editor's Choice” by Gramophone magazine. His latest recording, Bach Transcribed, will be released by Signum Records in 2009. In 2005, Alessio Bax was selected to play the Fugue of Beethoven’s “Hammerklavier” Sonata for Maestro Daniel Barenboim in Barenboim on Beethoven. His performances are often broadcast live on the BBC, CBC (Canada), RAI (Italy), RTVE (Spain), NHK (Japan), WDR, NDR and Bayerische Rundfunk (Germany), Hungarian Radio Television, Serbian RTE, among others. Alessio Bax graduated with top honors at the record age of 14 from the conservatory of his home town, Bari, Italy. He is now on the teaching faculty there. He and his wife, pianist Lucille Chung, reside in New York City. He appeared at these concerts in 2007 and 2008.

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