To download a biography as well as other materials, please visit the Press Kit page Excerpt from Ravel's Valses nobles et sentimentales Biography (long) Italian pianist Enrico Elisi regularly performs and gives master classes in Europe, America, and Asia. He has appeared as a soloist with several orchestras in the US, Italy, and Portugal. He was featured as a recitalist in several radio broadcasts, including a German radio station which hosted a two-and-a-half-hour program about Elisi, most recently.  With his versatility he has garnered top awards at such diverse venues as the Venice Competition - which brought him a performance at the famous La Fenice theatre, in Italy - and the Oporto International Competition - which led to a broadcast for Portuguese national television.  An active chamber musician, Elisi has collaborated with many renowned artists and has also performed at the Taos and Ravinia Festivals. Elisi is equally at home with the standard repertoire as well as new music. He enjoys working with living composers and has premiered several works (some of which were dedicated to him) at debut recitals in Toulouse, France; Carnegie Recital Hall; as well as other venues in North and South America.  He is the founder of the Green Valley Chamber Music Festival, an outreach program he developed and subsequently directed for three years. Previously, he was also the director of the Piano Institute of the Las Vegas Music Festival. Elisi is active nationally and internationally as an adjudicator.  Elisi worked extensively with Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, where he served as his mentor's assistant during his master's and doctoral degrees. Mr. Elisi also holds two Italian degrees from the Conservatory of Florence and the world renowned "Incontri col Maestro" International Piano Academy of Imola, where he studied with Lazar Berman, Boris Petrushansky, and Alexander Lonquich. Mr. Elisi is on the piano faculty at Penn State University and has formerly served on the faculty of the University of Nevada (UNLV). Biography (long)