Edoardo Bruni

Edoardo Bruni, born in Trento, Italy, in 1975, is a pianist and composer.

As a pianist, he graduated with honors from the Conservatory of Trento (in 1996 under the tutelage of Maddalena Giese) and subsequently from the Conservatory of Rotterdam (in 2000 under Aquiles Delle Vigne). He refined his skills through masterclasses with Arnaldo Cohen, Lazar Berman, András Schiff, and Leonid Margarius. He is the winner of several national and international competitions. He has performed as a soloist and in chamber music ensembles across Italy and Europe. He has participated in festivals alongside renowned artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Bruno Canino, Ivo Pogorelich, Stefano Bollani, Michele Campanella, and The Swingle Singers. He has also served as a jury member in various international competitions.

He is equally accomplished as a composer. He studied with Armando Franceschini, Cosimo Colazzo, and Carlo Galante at the Conservatory of Trento, where he earned a composition degree with honors in 2000. He furthered his studies with Alexander Mullenbach at the Mozarteum in Salzburg (1998) and with Azio Corghi and Luis Bacalov at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena (2004). He has received numerous composition awards, including the "Liszt Competition for Pianist-Composers" (2010 in Bellagio, where he won the Audience Award). His works have been performed by: the Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento, Ensemble La Pluma De Hu, Ensemble of the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Ensemble Alternance, Orchestra of the Trentino Music Schools, Ensemble Scuola Musicale Giudicarie, Ensemble Garnerama, Ludus Quartet, Trio Debussy, Ciaccio-Miotto Duo, Trio di Genova, Banda di Mezzocorona, Ranier Maria Klaas, Emanuele Delucchi, Vera Cecino, Federico Paolinelli, Santo Albertini, Carlo Lazari, and Duo Dallagnese. Having defined and formalized the principles of the aesthetics of "catharsis" and the "technique of pan-modality," he is currently working on the composition project "Ars Modi – The Art of the Mode," which offers a new musical perspective synthesizing the two major trends of the 20th century: the "aesthetics of discomfort – extreme atonality" on one hand and the "aesthetics of naïveté – traditional tonality" on the other.

In 2002, he earned a degree in Philosophy from the University of Padua. In 2005, he completed a PhD in Music Science at the University of Trento and a PhD in Musicology at Paris IV – Sorbonne University. He has taught at the "Scuola Musicale Giudicarie" (2000–2012) and at conservatories in Verona, Padua, Trento, Siena, Frosinone, and Darfo. He is currently a professor at the Conservatory of Vicenza.