Filippo Gorini - Biography

Not yet 30, Filippo Gorini’s musicianship has drawn unanimous acclaim in recitals in venues such as the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Berlin Konzerthaus, Vienna Konzerthaus, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, London Wigmore Hall, Società del Quartetto di Milano, Louis Vuitton Foundation Paris, Zurich Tonhalle, Van Cliburn Foundation, Vancouver Recital Society, as well as with orchestras such as the Santa Cecilia Orchestra in Rome, the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchester, the Verdi Orchestra in Milan, the Flanders Symphony Orchestra, the Gyeonggi Philharmonic in Seoul.

Filippo’s highlights from 2022-23 include recitals at Vancouver Recital Society, Konzerthaus Vienna, Festival Bach Montreal, Wigmore Hall, and San Carlo Theatre in Naples, as well as orchestral dates with Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra and Ópera Nacional de Chile. In 2023-24, he will make his debuts in Teatro alla Scala di Milano, in Carnegie Hall in New York, at Cal Performances in Berkeley, and with the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino conducted by Daniele Gatti, as well as a chamber music tour in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington DC for the Marlboro Music Festival.

Filippo’s multi-year project The Art of Fugue Explored, with BBT support, includes an Alpha Classics recording (2021), over 30 international performances, and a 14-part television series of filmed produced by Unitel and premièred on RAI between March and June 2024, with subsequent international showings.

His upcoming project Sonata for 7 cities, due for 2025-26, aims to show a new, responsible and ethical approach to concert life with monthly residencies in Vienna, Vancouver, Cape Town, Santa Fe, Milan and more, centred around performances, outreach, teaching, and philanthropy. During this project he will also perform seven newly commissioned piano pieces by composers such as Beat Furrer, Stefano Gervasoni, Yukiko Watanabe, Michelle Agnes Magalhaes, Federico Gardella, Oscar Jockel.

Filippo has received the “Premio Abbiati”, the most prestigious musical recognition in Italy, in 2022, as well as both a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award (2020) and, for Sonata for 7 cities, the Franco Buitoni Award (2023). He also participated in BBT’s 20th-anniversary celebrations at London’s Wigmore Hall, June 2023.

In the most complicated year in recent times, the support of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust gave me focus and a purpose, concentrating all my energy on the artistic project that we are building together. This could never have been possible without them and their deep faith in me. Their commitment to making my ideas come to life is the biggest encouragement I have received in recent years.

Photographs by Simon Weir; Marco Borggreve