LUCABURATTO2015 HONENS PRIZE LAUREATE

Luca Buratto, 2015 Honens Prize Laureate, is a pianist of “fiery imagination and finesse” (Musical America).

In addition to his success at Canada’s Honens Piano Competition, Buratto was awarded third prize at the International Robert Schumann Competition (Zwickau) and the special ‘Acerbi’ prize, awarded to a distinguished Finalist at Milan’s Shura Cherkassky Competition, both in 2012. He took inspiration from Italian tennis player Roberta Vinci’s upset over Serena Williams at the U.S. Open just hours before his Honens win. “There are many similarities between the psyches of tennis players and pianists,” he says, referring to David Foster Wallace’s epic novel, Infinite Jest.

Buratto first caught the public’s attention at the Conservatory of Milan’s Sala Verdi where, for a Holocaust Remembrance Day event in 2003, he performed music of Renzo Massarani, his great grandfather. Massarani (1898–1975), a student of Ottorino Respighi, was a promising young composer whose career was interrupted by the imposition of racial laws in 1938. “My great-grandfather had to stop writing music because he was Jewish,” says Buratto. “And in Italy before World War II, his music was banned. Though he survived the war and the persecution, he decided to stop writing music because he was disgusted with mankind.” Massarani became a music reviewer in Rio de Janeiro. “This has been a big influence on me. I don’t feel a sense of responsibility, but I understand that music can be very powerful.”

Buratto has gone on to give the Milan premiere of the youthful Beethoven Piano Concerto in E-flat major WoO 4 with I Pomeriggi Musicali Orchestra, performances with Orchestra Sinfonica Giuseppe Verdi, Magdeburgische Philharmonie, and recitals throughout France, Italy and Switzerland. He has also been featured on national radio broadcasts on Radio Classica and Radio 3 RAI. He will be a resident artist at the 2016 Marlboro Music Festival (Vermont). In 2017, Buratto gives his Wigmore Hall and Carnegie Hall recital debuts. A live recording of his performances from the 2015 Honens Piano Competition is available on the Honens label, and his debut studio recording of works by Schumann will be released on the Hyperion label, also in 2017.

Buratto earned his piano Diploma from Milan Conservatory and his master’s from Bolzano Conservatory. He was a Theo Lieven Scholar at the Conservatory of Lugano, from which he received his Master of Advanced Studies. His teachers have included Davide Cabassi, William Grant Naboré and Edda Ponti.

Buratto’s affinity for the music of Robert Schumann is balanced by his curiosity for works of today’s composers such as Thomas Adès. He enjoys jigsaw puzzles and table tennis and has an interest in physics and American post-modern literature.

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Beethoven Piano Concerto in E-flat major WoO 4

Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major Op. 15

Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor Op. 37

Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major Op. 73

Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major S. 124

Mozart Piano Concerto No. 3 in D major K. 40

Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat major K. 271 ‘Jeunehomme’

Piano Concerto No. 14 in E-flat major K. 449

Piano Concerto No. 19 in F major K. 459

Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor K. 466

Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat major K. 482

Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major K. 488

Piano Concerto No. 26 in D major K. 537

Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat major K. 595

Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor Op. 16

Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major Op. 26

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor Op. 18

Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor Op. 30

Ravel Piano Concerto in G major

Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor Op. 54

Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor Op. 23

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Adès Darknesse Visible (1992)

J. S. Bach selection of Inventions and Sinfonias

selection of Preludes and Fugues

from The Well-Tempered Clavier Books I & II

Partita No. 5 in G major BWV 829

Overture in the French style BWV 831

Toccata in C minor BWV 911

Capriccio on the departure of a beloved brother BWV 992

Bartók Sonata Sz. 80

Out of Doors Sz. 81

Beethoven Six variations in G major WoO 77

Sonata No. 12 in A-flat major Op. 26

Sonata No. 18 in E-flat major Op. 31 No. 3

Sonata No. 21 in C major Op. 53 ‘Waldstein’

Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 ‘Appassionata’

Sonata No. 30 in E major Op. 109

Berg 12 Variations über ein eigenes Thema

Brahms Variations on an original theme Op. 21 No. 1

Variations and fugue on a theme by Handel Op. 24

Sechs Klavierstücke Op. 118

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Chopin selection of Etudes Op. 10

Scherzo No. 1 in B minor Op. 20

. selection of Etudes Op. 25

Preludes Op. 28 complete

Fantasy in F minor Op. 49

Polonaise in G-sharp minor Op. Posth.

selected Mazurkas

selected Waltzes

Clementi Sonata in F-sharp minor Op. 25 No. 5

Czerny Variations on a Favourite Viennese Waltz Op. 12

Debussy Children’s Corner

Suite bergamasque

Estampes

L’isle joyeuse

Granados Allegro de concierto Op. 46

Haydn Sonata in C major Hob. XVI:1

Sonata in D major Hob. XVI:37

Sonata in C major Hob. XVI:50

Janácek Sonata 1.X.1905 ‘Von der Straße’

Liszt Etude No. 11 in D-flat major ‘Harmonies du soir’

from Etudes d’exécution transcendante S. 139

Sonata in B minor S. 178

Ligeti No. 15 White on White

No. 16 Pour Irina

from Etudes Book 3 (1995-2001)

Massarani Three preludes (1936)

Mendelssohn Prelude and fugue in E minor Op. 35 No. 1

Mozart Sonata No. 12 in F major K. 332

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Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

Prokofiev Sonata No. 3 in A minor Op. 28

Sonata No. 7 in B-flat major Op. 83

Rachmaninov No. 3 in B minor

No. 4 in E minor

from Moments musicaux Op. 16

Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor Op. 36

Études-Tableaux Op. 39 complete

Ravel Alborada del gracioso

from Miroirs

Schubert Moments musicaux D. 780

Sonata in A major D. 664

Sonata in C minor D. 958

Sonata in B-flat major D. 960

Schumann Papillons Op. 2

selections from Sechs Studien nach Capricen von Paganini Op. 3 and Op. 10

Carnaval op. 9

Fantasiestücke Op. 12

Kreisleriana Op. 16

Fantasie in C major Op 17

Humoreske in B-flat major Op. 20

No. 2 in D major

No. 8 in F-sharp minor

from Novelletten Op. 21

Waldszenen Op. 82

Tchaikovsky / Pletnev Concert Suite from The Nutcracker Op. 71

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With Violin

Beethoven Sonata for violin and piano No. 2 in A major Op. 12 No. 2

Sonata for violin and piano No. 3 in E-flat major Op. 12 No. 3

Sonata for violin and piano No. 8 in G major Op. 30 No. 3

Sonata for violin and piano No. 9 in A major Op. 47 ‘Kreutzer’

Brahms Sonata for violin and piano No. 2 in A major Op. 100

Debussy Sonata for violin and piano

Franck Sonata for violin and piano in A major

Mozart Sonata for violin and piano No. 18 in G major K. 301

Sonata for violin and piano No. 27 in G major K. 379

Ravel Sonata for violin and piano in G major

Schumann Sonata for violin and piano No. 1 in A minor Op. 105

Sonata for violin and piano No. 2 in D minor Op. 121

R. Strauss Sonata for violin and piano in E-flat major Op. 19

With Cello

Beethoven Sonata for cello and piano No. 1 in F major Op. 5 No. 1

Sonata for cello and piano No. 3 in A major Op. 69

Brahms Sonata for cello and piano No. 1 in E minor Op. 38

Sonata for cello and piano No. 2 in F major Op. 99

Grieg Sonata for cello and piano in A minor Op. 36

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Massarani Sonatina for cello and piano in C major (1937)

Schubert Sonata for arpeggione and piano in A minor D. 821

Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73

Fünf Stücke im Volkston Op. 102

Piano Trio

Beethoven Piano Trio No.7 in B-flat major Op. 97 ‘Archduke’

Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 49

Schumann Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 63

Piano Quartet

Mozart Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat major K 493

Piano Quintet

Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34

Schumann Piano Quintet in E-flat major Op. 44

Other Instrumentation

Beethoven Sonata for horn and piano in F major Op. 17

Trio for piano, clarinet and cello in B-flat major Op. 11

Quintet for piano and winds in E-flat major Op. 16

Brahms Trio for horn, violin and piano in E-flat major Op. 40

Trio for clarinet, cello and piano in A minor Op. 114

Lutoslawski Dance Preludes for clarinet and piano (1954)

Hindemith Sonata for viola and piano in F major Op. 11 No. 4

Mozart Trio for clarinet, viola and piano in E-flat major K. 498 ‘Kegelstatt’

Quintet for piano and winds in E flat major K. 452

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Schumann Fantasiestücke for clarinet and piano Op. 73

Drei Romanzen for oboe and piano Op. 94

Dicterliebe Op. 48

Piano Duo / Four Hands

Brahms Variations on a theme by Haydn for two pianos Op. 56b

Milhaud Scaramouche, suite for two pianos Op. 165b

Mozart Sonata for piano four-hands in C major K. 19d

Sonata for piano four-hands in B-flat major K. 358

Sonata for piano four-hands in D major K. 381

Sonata for two pianos in D major K. 448

Sonata for piano four-hands in C major K. 521

Rachmaninov Suite No. 2 Op. 17

Ravel Introduction and allegro

La valse

Schumann Andante und Variationen Op. 46

Shostakovich Concertino for two pianos in A minor Op 94

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