Pierluigi Camicia, a native of Apulia, Italy, began piano study at the age of five. In 1962, at the age of ten, he won first prize in the prestigious national competition "ENAL" at La Spezia. At the age of twentyone he won first prize in the most important piano competition in Italy: Città di Treviso, and he started with a prestigious career as soloist in Italy and Europe.

Mr. Camicia, a Busoni and Chopin competition prizewinner ... became professor at the Bari Conservatory at the age of 20, engaged from M° Nino ROTA.

He has already produced a generation of notable piano students, including Benedetto Lupo, prizewinner in the Van Cliburn Piano Competition in Forth Worth.

Mr Camicia devotes himself primarily to solo performances, and his artistry has been commented enthusiastically by Rostropovich, Ciccolini, Vasary and Franco Ferrara, but has also gained notoriety in Europe as a chamber musician.

His association with cellist Michael Flaksman dates to 1982; they have performed together in European Festivals and in U.S.A. and they have recorded the music of Faurè in a CD of ABEGG.

He often played also with Nina Beilina, Ruggiero Ricci, Melina Mandozzi, Angelo Persichilli, Felix Ayo, Vincenzo Mariozzi, Vito Paternoster, Carmelo Andriani, Alessandro Perpich, the Sebastian Quartett, Trio di Roma, Quartetto di Cremona, etc.

He played with Orchestras conducted by Gabriele Ferro, Samuel Friedman, Tamas Gal, Walter Proost, Gabriele Gandini, Mario Gusella, Massimo Biscardi, Michele Marvulli, Mladen Tarbuk in the most important Italian and European Theatres.

He also conducts Piano and Chamber-music Masterclasses in Europe (Italy, Germany, Croatia, France, Poland) in Japan (Tokyo and Osaka) in China (Shanghai and Harbin) and in U.S.A (Cleveland, Salt Lake City, Fresno, Arlington).

Mr. Camicia was artistic director of the most ancient Concert Series in Lecce, named Camerata Musicale Salentina., and of “OLES”, Orchestra Sinfonica di Lecce e del Salento. He was also the Director of the State Conservatory of Music “Tito Schipa” in Lecce till 2013.

He has recorded with Bongiovanni, Abegg and Farelive music of Chopin, Brahms, Franck, Van Westerhout, Grieg, Faurè, Scriabin, Tchaykowsky, Mussorgsky.

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