Paolo Restani

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Paolo Restani showed his prodigious capabilities already in his first recital at the age of 12. In 1984, invited for a cycle of recitals at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome by the great artistic director Francesco Siciliani, gained an extraordinary success asserted by the most prestigious press: He has already won his place in our home great piano tradition (Alfredo Gasponi, Il Messaggero), At Santa Cecilia a star is born (Mya Tannenbaum, Corriere della Sera), Sixteen years old but you don’t believe it: Paolo Restani, who appeared yesterday evening at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, is actually shocking (Ivana Musani, Paese Sera).

Since then engagements with the most prestigious theatres in Italy followed on. Among the many successes of those years, memorable the concert at Sala Verdi in Milan for the Serate Musicali: in January 1988, invited to replace Alexis Weissenberg in few hours notice, he performed a programme including Beethoven’s Eroica Variations and Liszt’s 12 Etudes d’Exécution Transcendante.