Gianluca Cascioli 900

Gianluca Cascioli attended the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in his hometown of Turin, where he studied composition with Alessandro Ruo Rui and Alberto Colla, and piano with Franco Scala. As the winner of the Umberto Micheli International Piano Competition in 1994, Cascioli was awarded a contract to record for Deutsche Grammophon. As a pianist, Cascioli has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, among many others. He has also conducted the Deutsche Kammerorchester Frankfurt, and performed chamber music with Yuri Bashmet, Mstislav Rostropovich, Maxim Vengerov, Sayaka Shoji, Sabine Meyer, Stefano Mollo, the Alban Berg Quartet, and the Berlin Philharmonic Octet. In addition to recording for Deutsche Grammophon, Cascioli has released CDs on Decca. (Blair Sanderson)