Gianluca Cascioli

Active as a pianist, conductor, and composer, Gianluca Cascioli has championed 20th century and contemporary music, including his own. A major break came in 1994 when Cascioli won the Umberto Micheli International Piano Competition in Milan. Part of his prize was a contract with Deutsche Grammophon, and he began his recording career in 1997 with an album of works by Beethoven, Webern, Schoenberg, Ligeti, and Boulez. An enthusiastic chamber music player, Cascioli numbers various prestigious musicians among his collaborators, such as cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and violinist Yuri Bashmet. In 2021, he returned to the recording studio, performing Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58, and what was termed the Piano Concerto No. 6, Op. 61a.