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NEW: Paul Chihara Cd on Albany Records just released

Elisi joins piano faculty at Eastman School of Music as an Associate Professor

NEW: Mozart Piano Works CD just released -- From Wolfsburger Nachrichter: "Enrico Elisi opened the concert series, il pianoforte all'italiana of the Italian Institute of Culture, Wolfsburg, with a large and demanding program [which included] Mozart's Sonata in F Major KV 332. Elisi fluidly expressed a wide variety of dynamics in the various themes and played the melodic ideas without ever neglecting the underlying counter-themes. Improvised ornaments, runs and leaps were always tied into the melodic flow resulting in an iridescent and richly varied work of art. Elisi developed Mozart's sonata as a dramatic scene that moved from one emotional level to another. Pamina could be heard languishing; Osmin clattering in his garden; one could imagine Papageno jumping but just as quickly the scene changed to the stony guest threatening a laughing Don Giovanni. The pianist who was evidently in the middle of this drama presented the audience with such great listening pleasure."

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American Liszt Society, PA Chapter

Arioso Artists Management

Mendelssohn, Fantasie, Op. 28, excerpt


“Musical fireworks were presented at the end of the concert, where the hands of the pianist flew. Runs crackled like rockets and chords thundered in the Dance of Fire by Manuel de Falla. The enthusiasm of the public was so great that they allowed the pianist his farewell only after three encores.”
—Angelika Kannenberg, Wolfsburger Nachrichten Zeitung

“A first-class piano recital [...] Elisi revealed remarkable sensitivity, imagination and polish. He brought clarity and sublety to Bach, considerable eloquence to Mozart, and his phrasing of Chopin contained uncommon rhythmic elasticity and poetic refinement.”
—Tim Smith, The Baltimore Sun

“Elisi's playing shows a refined sense of style and noble personality.”
—Lazar Berman, pianist

“Elisi is a highly gifted, serious, and accomplished musician. His playing is characterized by a keen awareness of those elements of music that distinguish the great artist from the pedestrian performer.”
—Leon Fleisher, pianist and conductor