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Perotti Lucio
Lucio Perotti is “one of the finest pianists of his generation, able to take on a wide piano repertoire with success, with a particular passion for improvisation and contemporary music” (The Carousel). He is highly active on the contemporary music scene in all its forms, including jazz.

"Lucio Perotti è “uno tra i più validi pianisti della sua generazione, in grado di cimentarsi con successo in un ampio repertorio pianistico, con una particolare passione per l’improvvisazione e la musica contemporanea” (The Carousel), molto attivo sulla scena musicale contemporanea nelle sue più diverse declinazioni, compreso il Jazz."

Biography
Lucio Perotti is a

solo pianist

and principal piano of the

PMCE Parco della Musica Contemporanea Ensemble and of the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome . He recently appeared with the PMCE at the Venice Biennale 2018 in Elliott Carter’s Dialogues, for piano and chamber orchestra, and in Frank Zappa’s Yellow Shark. As a soloist he plays at major festivals including Ravenna Festival, the Venice Biennale, the Bartók Festival, the Sagra Musicale Malatestiana, the Romaeuropa Festival and the GOG Giovine Orchestra Genovese, where he was invited in 2020 to play Schoenberg and Prokofiev. At the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome he is engaged as soloist andprincipal piano in major productions including Berg’s Lulu, Thomas Adès’s Asyla and John Adams’s I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky. He performs and improvises alongside musicians of the calibre of Ute Lemper, Reggie Workman and Paolo Fresu , and works with international conductors such as Péter Eötvös, Alexander Briger, Paul Daniel, Jonathan Stockhammer and Peter Rundel. tra cui Lulu di A. Berg, Asyla di Thomas Adès e I was lookin at the ceiling and then I saw the sky di John Adams. Si esibisce e improvvisa al fianco di musicisti del calibro di Ute Lemper, Reggie Workman e Paolo Fresu e lavora con direttori internazionali quali Peter Eötvös, Alexander Briger, Paul Daniel, Jonathan Stockhammer e Peter Rundel.

“We should now like to hear this pianist in a whole programme of present-day music, since his repertoire is full of it: at last a modern performer in the full sense of the word.”
Mario Bortolotto – Il Foglio Quotidiano, 29 September 2012.

“Vorremmo ora ascoltare il pianista in un intero programma di musica attuale, visto che il suo repertorio ne include a piene mani: finalmente un esecutore moderno nel pieno senso del termine”.

Mario Bortolotto – Il Foglio Quotidiano, 29 settembre 2012.
“Lucio Perotti, a soloist of remarkable virtuosic ease.”

Il Gazzettino – Mario Messinis, 3 October 2018.

“Lucio Perotti solista di notevole disinvoltura virtuosistica”.

Il Gazzettino – Mario Messinis, 3 ottobre 2018.
“The piano piece Ruth is Sleeping (F. Zappa) was superb — Lucio Perotti was extraordinary!”

La Repubblica – Dino Villatico, 30 September 2018.

“Eccelso il pezzo per pianoforte Ruth is Sleeping (F. Zappa), straordinario Lucio Perotti!”.

La Repubblica – Dino Villatico, 30 settembre 2018.



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He works alongside important composers including Ivan Fedele, Unsuk Chin, Mark Grey, Péter Eötvös and Steve Reich.

Lavora al fianco di importanti compositori tra cui Ivan Fedele, Unsuk Chin, Mark Grey, Peter Eötvös e Steve Reich.