12 Facts About Alessio Bax

Alessio Bax graduated from the Bari conservatory at the record age of 14.

Alessio Bax won the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition in Japan at age 19 and the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition in 2000 after first participating in 1993.

Alessio Bax received the Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2009.

Alessio Bax studied at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas with Basque pianist Joaquin Achucarro.

Alessio Bax serves since 2019 on the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music as a professor of piano.

Alessio Bax has collaborated with conductors such as Marin Alsop, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Sir Andrew Davis, Hannu Lintu, Ruth Reinhardt, Yuri Temirkanov, Jaap van Zweden and Sir Simon Rattle.

Alessio Bax has given recitals at major venues in Rome, Milan, Madrid, Paris, London, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong, New York, Washington, Mexico City.

Alessio Bax made his New York recital debut at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2010.

Alessio Bax played the Fugue of Beethoven's "Hammerklavier" Sonata for Daniel Barenboim in the documentary Barenboim on Beethoven in 2005, published on EMI.

Alessio Bax is the artistic director of the Incontri in Terra di Siena Festival in Tuscany and co-artistic director with Lucille Chung of the Joaquin Achucarro Foundation in Dallas.

In 2013 Bax received the Martin E Segal Award from Lincoln Center, and the Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award.

In 2009, Alessio Bax received the Avery Fisher Career Grant, and was the first prize winner of the 2000 Leeds International Pianoforte Competition.