Acclaimed Italian pianist Fabio Bidini will bring his virtuosity to the Dixon Center stage Tuesday in Lee University’s final Presidential Concert of the 2009-10 season. Bidini will present a program of familiar piano works by Chopin, Mozart and Schumann.
Bidini’s repertoire contains 84 piano concerti that range from works from the baroque to the modern eras. He has received praise from numerous music critics and reviews including The New York Times, Broad Street Review of Philadelphia and Classical Voice of North Carolina, which called his playing “an ideal alloy of power, poetry and style.”
Playing piano since age 5, Bidini has won 11 of Italy’s most important piano competitions. His career went international after winning top prizes at the Van Ciburn International Piano Competition, and he is now at the forefront of younger generation pianists.
In 2009, he was appointed to one of the highest chairs for piano at the esteemed Hochschule fur Musik Hanns Eisler, a university of music in Berlin, and has since taught as a professor there.
Tuesday’s concert is dedicated to the memory of Michael Brownlee, who died last November after a 30-year career with Lee’s piano faculty.