Francesco Nicolosi

January 5, 2024
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Francesco Nicolosi
Full Name Francesco Nicolosi
Occupation Pianist
Date Of Birth Dec 7, 1954(1954-12-07)
Age 70
Birthplace Catania
Country Italy
Birth City Sicily
Horoscope Sagittarius

Francesco Nicolosi Biography

Name Francesco Nicolosi
Birthday Dec 7
Birth Year 1954
Place Of Birth Catania
Home Town Sicily
Birth Country Italy
Birth Sign Sagittarius

Francesco Nicolosi is one of the most popular and richest Pianist who was born on December 7, 1954 in Catania, Sicily, Italy. He is known for his international performances and tours as well as recordings of the virtuoso piano of Sigismond Thalberg.

He along with pianist Vittorio Bresciani started the duo in 1998 to encourage piano versions of He and pianist Vittorio Bresciani founded a duo in 1998 to promote piano versions of Franz Liszt‘s symphonic compositions.’s symphonic compositions.

Nicolosi was born in Catania, Italy. He has lived in Naples, Italy since 1973 where he studied with Vincenzo Vitale. Since 1996 he is the president of the Sigismund Thalberg International Study Centre. In 1998 he founded the Franz Liszt Piano Duo with pianist Vittorio Bresciani with the aim of promoting Liszt’s symphonic works in two-piano versions.

1980: Second Prize at the Concours International d’Exécution Musicale in Geneva.

His birthplace was Catania which was historically a center for Italian art, culture and politics.

Francesco Nicolosi Net Worth

Net Worth $5 Million
Source Of Income Pianist
House Living in own house.

Francesco Nicolosi is one of the richest Pianist from Italy. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Francesco Nicolosi 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He won third place during The 1980 International Santander Piano Competition.

He was elected the president of the Sigismund Thalberg International Study Centre in the year 1996.

Francesco Nicolosi (born December 7, 1954) is an Italian pianist.

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He is Artistic Director of the Sigismund Thalberg International Piano Prize and until 2015 he was Artistic Director in many important Italian summer festivals such as “I concerti d’Estate a Villa Guariglia” in Vietri sul mare, “Jeux d’art a Villa d’Este” in Tivoli, “Roccaraso in Musica” and of the International Piano Masterclass in Naples and Rome.

Facts & Trivia

Francesco Ranked on the list of most popular Pianist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Italy. Francesco Nicolosi celebrates birthday on December 7 of every year.

The authoritative Corriere della Sera critic and musicologist Paolo Isotta wrote of Nicolosi on the occasion of the recent recording of two rare concerts of Paisiello: (…) listening to him playing is enough to remind us that no one today can match his luminosity of sound, his ability to draw out the song-like legato qualities of a keyboard instrument … he has acquired a reputation as one of our greatest living pianists … The great Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli performed eighteenth-century works, his inspiration came principally from the same source as Nicolosi’s, but perhaps lacked some of the latter’s lucidity and coherence. Nicolosi is now perfecting the process begun by Michelangeli.

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