At Bocconi, a Concert for Two Pianos

ON MAY 30 AT 9PM, ELISA TOMELLINI AND FRANCESCO GRILLO IN CONCERT

Two pianos for Elisa Tomellini and Francesco Grillo, the two performers for the concert in the Aula Magna in Via Gobbi organized by ISU Bocconi in collaboration with Furcht Pianoforti and Doctors with Africa Cuamm
 
The programm
 
Presentation of the activities of Doctors with Africa Cuamm
Maurice Ravel, La Valse
Wiltold Lutoslawski, Variations sur 1 Thème de Paganini
Francesco Grillo, Fantasy | Visioni Notturne | Caleidoscopio | Supersonic
Maurice Ravel Bolero
 
Elisa Tomellini was born in Genoa, where she began studying piano at the age of five. In 1997 she obtained her diploma cum laude at the Verdi Conservatory in Milan. She has performed in recital and with orchestra in Italy and abroad for numerous prestigious associations and theaters. In 2017 on the Colle Gnifetti glacier on Monte Rosa, she crowned her dream of playing for the mountain, after climbing on foot, also setting the record for the highest piano concert in the world at an altitude of 4460 meters. In 2018 she published her cd for ‘Dynamic’ with the Transcendentals by Liszt by Paganini in the first version of 1838. She is the first woman in the world to have played the studies in this version
 
Francesco Grillo is a classical pianist and composer who graduated from the Verdi Conservatory of Milan and, later, at the Academies of Imola and Cremona. Since childhood he began to compose following the classic models. The passion for Jazz has allowed him to create his very own compositional style that draws on both (classical and jazz) traditions. He won first prize in numerous national and international piano competitions and has performed in many countries in Europe, in US, Japan, Mexico. In 2011 he recorded for Universal his first album “HighBall” with original pieces for piano solo and three duets with the pianist Stefano Bollani.
 
 
Doctors with Africa Cuamm since 1950 promotes the universal right to health in poor countries and in particular in Sub-Saharan Africa. It currently operates in 8 African countries considered among the poorest in the world, with particular attention to motherhood and childhood through the campaign “First mothers and children”, which wants to guarantee safe pregnancy and childbirth to all mothers, and follow the growth of children up to two years of age, especially fighting malnutrition. Since its early years, the association has also provided training for local staff, from nursing courses to university courses, in the belief that only in this way will the autonomy and independence of poor countries be guaranteed.
 
Free entrance
 
 

by Susanna Della Vedova