Alessio Bax | |
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Born | 30 November 1977 Bari, Italy | (age 46)
Genres | classical music |
Occupation | pianist |
Instrument | piano |
Years active | 1997–present |
Website | Alessio Bax |
Alessio Bax (born 1977 in Bari) is an Italian classical pianist. He graduated from the Bari conservatory at the record age of 14.[1][2] He won the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition in Japan at age 19 and the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition in 2000 after first participating in 1993. Bax was a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's CMS Two for three seasons, beginning in 2009.[3] He also received the Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2009.[1][2][4] He studied at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas with Basque pianist Joaquín Achúcarro.[4] Bax is a Steinway Artist.[3] He also serves since 2019 on the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music as a professor of piano.[5]