Marcello Abbado - Honorary President

Marcello Abbado is equally noted as a pianist and composer. As a pianist he has appeared in Europe, America, Africa and Asia on such stages as La Scala, Milan, the Salle Gaveau in Paris, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, the Bolshoi Hall in the Conservatory Tchaikovsky of Moscow, the Teatro Coliseo in Buenos Aires and the principal arenas of London, Montreal, New York, Peking, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo.

Mr. Abbado has worked with many acclaimed musicians, including Paul Hindemith and conductors Wolfgang Sawallisch and Guido Cantelli. He enjoys a particularly close working relationship with Vienna Philharmonic, with which he has performed and conducted all of Mozart's 27 piano concertos. After 9 tours in South America, he commemorated Bach and Scarlatti by executing monographical programs, as well Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev by carrying out some concertos for piano and orchestra, including the concerto for the left hand and the entire piano work of Debussy. He has also held masterclasses in Europe, Central Asia, China, Japan and U.S.A.

Mr. Abbado has composed for a wide variety of ensembles, including works for violin soloist, orchestra, and percussion ensembles, as well as chamber music and ballet scores. His compositions are published by Carisch, Curci, Ricordi and Suvini Zerboni of Milan. Recently in Moscow and in U.S.A. symphonic programs have been dedicated entirely to his music and in Japan programs entirely to his chamber music. Marcello Abbado has been a member of the jury for many international competitions for chamber music, composition, conducting, singing, violin and piano.

He was composition's teacher during twelve years in the conservatory of Bologna, Parma and Piacenza and between 1972 to 1996 he was the director of the Conservatory in Milan. Meanwhile in 1993 he co-founded along with Vladimir Delman the Symphony Orchestra of Milan Giuseppe Verdi. The executive director of the "TCU-Cliburn Piano Institute" invited him to be part of the "TCU-Cliburn Piano Institute" in USA and he is the only Italian pianist honorary member of the "PTNA-Japan piano teachers Association" of Tokyo.

Marcello Abbado is composition's professor and director of the section of the Music in the new Academy of Sciences of Arts and of the Spectacle in Catanzaro city, Italy and since 2005 he is the honorary President of CAMERATA EUROPÆA in Berlin.