NEC welcomes Alessio Bax to Piano faculty
NEC is pleased to announce that Alessio Bax will be joining our piano faculty in fall 2019.
Alessio Bax will join Piano faculty in fall 2019. Considered "among the most remarkable young pianists now before the public" (Gramophone), Bax is a well-known performer on four continents as a recitalist, chamber musician, and a concerto soloist.
"I am thrilled to join the faculty at the New England Conservatory of Music. NEC is an exemplary institution with a glorious past, a thriving present and a vibrant future. It creates the perfect environment for a new generation of musicians to strive for excellence while being inspired by its most illustrious faculty. I am incredibly excited to add this new facet to my musical life and look forward to many years of fruitful collaboration." said Alessio Bax.
First catapulted to prominence by his First Prize wins at both the 1997 Hamamatsu International Piano Competition and 2000 Leeds International Piano Competition, he has since also been recognized with a 2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant, 2013 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award, and 2013 Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award.
Equally accomplished as a solo recitalist and chamber musician, NEC students will benefit from Bax's extensive experience, which includes appearing on five continents with more than 100 orchestras.
"We are thrilled that Alessio Bax will join our piano faculty next year! It’s an incredible opportunity for our students to learn from such a wonderful musician, who not only maintains an active performing career, but is also a dedicated teacher. He presented an excellent masterclass at NEC just a few months ago, after which we knew that he would be a great addition to the faculty roster and that our students would benefit a great deal from their work with him" said Vice President and Provost Tom Novak.
Bax has served as Artistic Director of Tuscany’s Incontri in Terra di Siena festival since 2017. His most frequent collaborators include his wife, pianist Lucille Chung, superstar violinist Joshua Bell, cellist Paul Watkins, Berlin Philharmonic principals Daishin Kashimoto and Emmanuel Pahud, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He has also shared the stage with such prominent artists as pianist Emanuel Ax, tenor Ian Bostridge, cellists Sol Gabetta and Steven Isserlis, violist Lawrence Power, clarinetist Jörg Widmann, and the Emerson String Quartet.
As a concerto soloist, Bax has appeared with some of the world's top orchestras, including the London, Royal, and St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestras, the Boston, Dallas, Sydney, and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestras, and the NHK Symphony in Japan, collaborating with such eminent conductors as Marin Alsop, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Sir Andrew Davis, Sir Simon Rattle, Yuri Temirkanov, and Jaap van Zweden.