Maurizio Baglini

A visionary pianist with a taste for musical challenges, Maurizio Baglini has an intense international concert career. Winner at the age of 24 of the “World Music Piano Master” in Monte Carlo, he performs regularly at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, at the Salle Gaveau in Paris, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, and he is a guest of prestigious festivals including La Roque d’Anthéron, Yokohama Piano Festival, Australian Chamber Music Festival, and the Festival Pianistico Internazionale di Bergamo e Brescia. He has performed as soloist with major ensembles including the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monaco, the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and with conductors such as Luciano Acocella, Francesco Angelico, Marco Angius, John Axelrod, Antonello Allemandi, Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli, Manlio Benzi, Giampaolo Bisanti, Filippo Maria Bressan, Marcello Bufalini, Massimiliano Caldi, Tito Ceccherini, Daniel Cohen, Howard Griffiths, Armin Jordan, Isaac Karabtchevsky, Seikyo Kim, Emanuel Krivine, Antonello Manacorda, Karl Martin, Donato Renzetti, Corrado Rovaris, Ola Rudner, Daniele Rustioni, Maximiano Valdés, and Tobias Woegerer.
Recently, together with conductor Marco Angius, he performed a very rare complete cycle of the works for piano and orchestra by Igor Stravinsky. He is the dedicatee soloist of Tre Quadri, Concerto per pianoforte e orchestra by Francesco Filidei, which he premiered with the OSN Rai conducted by Tito Ceccherini in streaming on Rai Cultura, Rai Radio 3, EuroRadio, and broadcast on Rai5 in November 2020. In September 2021, Tre Quadri was performed by Baglini and Ceccherini, once again with the OSN Rai, in its first public world performance at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, for the Milano Musica Festival. In 2022 he performed as soloist at the Ravenna Festival, under the direction of Daniel Harding, with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, in a program featuring the work by Azio Corghi Tra la carne e il cielo. The piece was commissioned from the composer by Baglini himself on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the death of Pier Paolo Pasolini and is dedicated to the cellist Silvia Chiesa.
Welcomed by excellent reviews, his discographic production for Decca/Universal includes keyboard works by Liszt, Brahms, Schubert, Domenico Scarlatti, and Mussorgsky, as well as the series Live at Amiata Piano Festival. Baglini is also recording the complete piano works of Schumann, and the first five CDs available so far are already considered a benchmark of interpretation. He is among the few virtuosos in the world to perform the “Ninth Symphony” by Beethoven in the transcendental piano transcription by Liszt. From 2008 to today, he has been invited to perform this vertiginous masterpiece live on many prestigious stages—in cities including Rome, Milan, Cremona, Paris, Munich, Tel Aviv, Beirut, Rio de Janeiro—and in 2020 he surpassed the record figure of one hundred performances. He created the innovative project “Web Piano,” in which his live interpretations—from Carnaval by Schumann to Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky or Images by Debussy—are accompanied by video projections by the artist Giuseppe Andrea L’Abbate (La Roque d’Anthéron, Lisztomanias, Châteauroux, Emilia Romagna Festival).
Also passionate about chamber repertoire, he has shared the stage with Kristóf Baráti, Enrico Bronzi, Gautier Capuçon, Renaud Capuçon, Boris Belkin, Cinzia Forte, Corrado Giuffredi, Andrea Griminelli, Gabriele Pieranunzi, Roberto Prosseda, Massimo Quarta, the Quartetto della Scala, and other distinguished colleagues. Since 2006 he has formed a permanent duo with the cellist Silvia Chiesa, with whom he has performed over 250 concerts worldwide.
He was Artistic Director of the Amiata Piano Festival, the international music event he founded in 2005 and which took place from 2015 to 2025 at the Forum Bertarelli in Poggi del Sasso (Grosseto, Tuscany). From 2013 to 2023 he served as Artistic Consultant for music and dance at the Teatro Comunale “Verdi” of Pordenone, which in these years has presented exclusive concerts for Italy, created a publishing series in collaboration with Ets, and become the main partner of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester on its European tours. In 2019 he was appointed Honorary Member of AIARP, the Italian Association of Piano Tuners and Technicians, “for the high merits and important artistic contributions that his activity has brought to the cause of the piano.” He plays a Fazioli grand piano. He teaches piano at the Claudio Monteverdi State Conservatory in Cremona.

https://www.mauriziobaglini.com
“Extraordinary performer” (L’Espresso)
“Refined, suggestive, profound” (Il Sole 24 Ore)
“Vivid performer” (Suonare News)
“Acuteness and curiosity of vision” (Classic Voice)
“Highly recommended” (Internazionale)
“Clarity and rigor” (Amadeus)
“Fervid and brilliant” (Venerdì di Repubblica)
“Superb” (Classica)
“Impressive” (American Record Guide)
“Authentic performer” (Musica)