In a programme of R. Schumann: Vier Fugen Op. 72 (1845), 7 Klavierstücke in Fughettenform Op. 126 (1853); F. Liszt / F. Busoni: Fantasie und Fuge über den Choral ‘Ad nos, ad salutarem undam’, S.259 (1852; 1896); Vanraj Bhatia: Introduction and Retrograde (’for Judy’, April 1959), Fantasia and Fugue in C (February-May 1999) and L. v. Beethoven: Sonata Op. 106 in B-flat major ‘Grosse Sonate für das Hammer klavier’ (dedicated to the Archduke Rudolph von Österreich, 1817-1818)
After graduating in piano performance and composition, Daniele Buccio (Verona, 1980) received the title of Ph.D in Musicology at the University of Bologna with a dissertation on the history of Gestalt psychology in the musical domain. From 2011 until 2017, he has been a teacher of piano and score reading for composers at the “Santa Cecilia” Conservatory of Music in Rome, Italy.
In 2016, he was awarded the DAAD short-term research grant to pursue a research project at the Musikhochschule Lübeck and in 2020 he was awarded a research grant by the Paul Sacher Stiftung Basel. He has been performing solo recitals since 1997. In 2010, he published the recording Dettagli e ritagli for the Bongiovanni label in Bologna, 69 piano pieces dedicated to him by Luigi Verdi.
Among his most recent projects are the public performances of piano works by Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Ivan Wyschnegradsky, Igor Miklachevsky, and Marina Scriabine, and of the complete Lisztian transcriptions of Beethoven’s nine symphonies.
