Poster Fabio Bidini, pianist and teacher
Fabio Bidini, pianist and teacher
Colburn School
Performance Today®

Pianist Fabio Bidini

Italian pianist Fabio Bidini is a terrific pianist, and he's also very much in demand as a piano teacher as well. Bidini teaches at the Colburn School in Los Angeles, and at the Hans Eisler Music Academy in Berlin. On today's show, Fabio Bidini plays Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 3, with conductor JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Christos Hatzis: String Quartet No 1 Movement 4
St. Lawrence String Quartet: Geoff Nutall and Owen Dalby violins; Lesley Robertson, viola; Christopher Costanza, cello
Awakening
EMI Classics 5 58038 2

Peter Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.3
Fabio Bidini, piano; Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, NY

Doug Balliett: Gawain's Journey
St. Lawrence String Quartet, JACK Quartet
Spoleto Festival USA, Dock Street Theater, Charleston, SC

Nikolai Nikolayevich Tcherepnin: Horn Quartet Op. 35
Lucie Krysati, Anton Oskar Doppelbauer, Jacob Dean and Henrike Graf, horns
Konzerthaus, Berlin, Germany

Hour 2

Leonard Bernstein: Fancy Free Ballet; Three Dance Variations: Variation 3: Danzon & Variation 1: Galop
Nashville Symphony; Andrew Mogrelia, conductor
Bernstein: Fancy Free/Dybbuk
Naxos 559280

Traditional, arr. Wenhe Han: Chu-Han War
Yu Bin, pipa; Jiawei Zhang, gaohu; Shanghai Chinese Orchestra; Shenshen Yao, conductor
International Arts Festival of China, Grand Theatre, Shanghai, China

Leonard Bernstein: Lonely Town
Michael Brown, piano
The Freda & Aaron Silberman Recital Series performed at Baruch Performing Arts Center at Baruch College, Engelman Recital Hall, New York, NY

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, Op. 60
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Louis Langree, conductor
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Music Hall, Cincinnati, OH

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