Awarded “Editor’s Choice” by Gramophone several times, Giovanni Bellucci is an artist destined to continue the great Italian tradition, historically represented by Busoni, Zecchi, Michelangelo, Ciani, and Pollini.

“There are not ten pianists like him in the world; he takes us back to the golden age of the piano.” Thus, the newspaper Le Monde highlights Bellucci’s victory at the World Piano Masters Competition in Monte-Carlo, which marked the culmination of a very long series of successes in international competitions: Queen Elizabeth of Brussels, Primavera of Prague, Casella of Naples, Claude Kahn of Paris, and Busoni of Bolzano.

Awarded the “Ferenc Liszt Lifetime Achievement Award,” Bellucci was included by Diapason magazine in the Top Ten ideal interpreters of the Hungarian composer. The very limited selection compares him to Martha Argerich, Arrau, Brendel, Ciccolini, Cziffra, Kempff, and Zimerman.

Giovanni Bellucci has performed at the most famous auditoriums, traditional theaters, and festivals worldwide: Hollywood Bowl, where he made his American debut in front of 18,000 spectators; Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna; Performing Arts Society of Washington; Svetlanov Concert Hall in Moscow; Sydney Opera House; Herkulessaal in Munich; Konzerthaus in Berlin; Palais Princier in Monte-Carlo; Teatro alla Scala in Milan; Teatro La Fenice in Venice; Teatro Massimo in Palermo; Accademia Nazionale di S. Cecilia in Rome; Beethovenfest in Bonn; Geneva Wagner Festival; Prague Spring Festival; Newport Festival (U.S.A.); Bath Music Festival (England); Brescia and Bergamo Piano Festival; Ravello Festival; Yokohama Festival (Japan); Singapore Piano Festival; San Petersburg; Firkusny Piano Festival in Prague; Festival de La Roque d’Anthéron; Chorégies d’Orange; Festival Chopin in Nohant; Radio France et Montpellier; Dias da Musica and Beethoven Festival in Lisbon; and for the most prestigious Parisian concert halls (Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Cité de la Musique, Salle Pleyel, Auditorium du Louvre, Salle Gaveau, Théâtre du Châtelet).

A pianist with a vast repertoire, Bellucci recently performed Beethoven’s 32 sonatas at the Politeama in Palermo, the 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies and the complete cycle of Liszt’s Harmonies poétiques et religieuses at the Louvre Auditorium in Paris and at the Radio France Festival in Montpellier, the 9 symphonies of Beethoven/Liszt at the Belem Auditorium in Lisbon, Liszt’s transcription of the Symphonie Fantastique at the Performing Arts Society in Washington DC, the Fantastique itself plus the Harold en Italie also transcribed by Liszt at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome and at the Lisztomanias Festival in Châteauroux, the 5 Beethoven concertos on two consecutive evenings with the Biel-Solothurn Symphony Orchestra, and the complete works by Busoni for piano and orchestra with the RAI National Symphony Orchestra and with the Mannheim National Theater Orchestra.

Among his recordings, notable ones include Berlioz/Liszt’s Sinfonia Fantastica (Decca), Liszt’s paraphrases of works by Verdi and Bellini (Warner Classics), Liszt’s First Concerto and Totentanz (Accord/Universal France), the Three Concertos for piano and chamber orchestra by Alkan (Piano Classics), the 32 Beethoven Sonatas and the 9 Beethoven/Liszt Symphonies (14 CDs Brilliant Classics), and the 5 Beethoven Concertos (Calliope) with solo cadenzas composed by Beethoven, Liszt, Brahms, Busoni, Fauré, Reinecke, Stavenhagen, Gould, and Bellucci himself.