Pianist Emanuele Arciuli focuses, to a degree unusual for a European artist, on contemporary American music. Beyond that, he has a large repertory that has emphasized music by Bach and Liszt, and he is a significant educator. Arciuli released his debut album, a recording of Busoni's Piano Sonata in F minor, Op. 20a, in 1994, following that up with a release devoted to the "Italie" volume of Liszt's Années de Pèlerinage. A key event shaping the direction of Arciuli's career was his American debut at the University of Cincinnati's Festival Ninety-Eight in 1998. After that, Arciuli turned increasingly often to contemporary American music. In 2000, he issued the album Americans!: 20th Century Piano Music of American Composers. In 2005, he issued a recording of George Crumb's Eine kleine Mitternachtmusik; that album earned a Grammy Award nomination. In 2021, he released the album Arthur Farwell: America's Neglected Composer.