Concert for cello and piano

For over twenty years he has been the first solo cello of the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. In addition to many concerts in the dual role of soloist and conductor, since 2002 he has increasingly devoted himself to conducting. He has collaborated with soloists such as Avi Avital, Luis Bacalov, Stefano Bollani, Mario Brunello, Pietro De Maria, Benedetto Lupo, Sara Mingardo, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Valeriy Sokolov and has recorded three Piano Concertos by Paisiello (soloist Francesco Nicolosi) for Naxos and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons (soloist Grazia Raimondi) for Eloquentia, Britten’s Violin Concerto (soloist Livia Sohn) and a CD with Sara Mingardo in which he conducts Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder and Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, awarded in France in 2012 as the best Lieder CD of the year. From 2012 to 2022 he was musical director of the ICO Orchestra della Magna Grecia in Taranto. After the great success achieved in Rome in 2013 conducting the Strings of the Orchestra di Santa Cecilia in a concert of music by Schubert and the recording of the same program for a CD Eloquentia, Piovano began a stable collaboration at the head of the Strings of Santa Cecilia with which he performed in the most important Italian seasons and Festivals and has already recorded 6 CDs.

Among his engagements as a conductor in recent years, concerts on the podium of many of the main Italian orchestras and, abroad, the debut with the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra and, in 2022, with the Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg which immediately reinvited him for March 2023 and February 2024.

Very active in chamber music alongside artists of the caliber of Maurizio Pollini, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Myung-Whun Chung, Alexander Lonquich, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Leonidas Kava- kos, Veronika Eberle, Katia and Marielle Labeque, Nikolay Lugansky, Malcolm Bilson, since 2005 he has regularly played in duo with Antonio Pappano and from 2009 to 2019 he was part of the Trio Latitude 41. He has played as a soloist with prestigious orchestras – Tokyo Philharmonic, New Japan Philharmonic, Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Seoul Philharmonic, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal – under the baton of conductors such as Chung, Menuhin, Nagano, Pappano, Pletnev.

Luigi Carroccia has won prestigious awards including the “Premio Abbado” announced by the MIUR in memory of Claudio Abbado and the “Virtuoso Prize” of the Vendome Piano Prize held at the Verbier Festival 2019.

He received a medal in Kjustendil for his performances of A. Scriabin and in recent years he has achieved great success in the “Van Cliburn” Competition in Fort Worth, the “Ferruccio Busoni” in Bolzano and the “Fryderyk Chopin” in Warsaw.

His concert activity has seen him regularly engaged in Italy and abroad for Festivals such as the Duszniki International Chopin Piano Festival, the Miami International Piano Festival, the Dresdner Musikfestspiele, and in halls such as the Ishibashi Memorial Hall of the University of Tokyo, Flagey in Brussels, the Symphony Hall and the Town Hall in Birmingham, the Apollinee Halls of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the Museo Teatrale alla Scala in Milan, the Teatro Casa d’Italia in Istanbul and the Salle Bourgie in Montreal. Luigi began his musical studies under the guidance of his father and grandfather.

His artistic maturation then continued at the “C. Monteverdi” Conservatory in Bolzano, where he obtained the Old Order Diploma with top marks and honors and the II Level Academic Diploma with top marks and honorable mention.

He subsequently received a Junior Fellowship from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (UK) and from 2018 to 2022 he was Artist in Residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Waterloo, Belgium.