Edoardo Torbianelli (*1970)

Biography

Edoardo Torbianelli was born in Trieste in 1970.

As a pianist, he has performed in prestigious seasons and festivals and has recorded for the main European radios. His recordings have received international critical acclaim and prestigious awards.

His interest in historical performance leads him to play on period instruments and makes him an expert on the 18th and 19th centuries. An excellent improviser, he composes in both traditional and contemporary styles.

Since 1998 he is professor of historical pianos, chamber music and the aesthetics of the 18th and 19th century piano repertoire at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel. Since 2008, he helds the same position at the Hochschule der Künste in Bern.

Edoardo Torbianello is Professor and guest lecturer in various musical institutions in Europe and Colombia. From 2014 to 2021 he was responsible for instrumental training in the new Master of Musicology and practice of the pianoforte at the Sorbonne University in Paris as well as professor of historical pianos at the CRR of Paris. 

Between 2016 and 2019, he was Artist in Residence at the Abbaye de Royaumont study center.