Alessio Bax . . . have piano, will travel

European January

2012-01-09T11:34:00.000-05:00

After an incredibly exciting New Year's Eve spent playing Liszt First Concerto at the Seoul Arts Center and greeting 2012 with a breathtaking post-concert fireworks display , I flew back to New York for just a day in order to repack my bags, organize my thoughts and head for the first of two European trips in January. Check out the celebration HERE After having spent a lot of 2011 in the

Music@Menlo Carte Blanche Program Notes

2011-08-08T16:01:00.000-04:00

Once again one of my summer's highlights has been a Carte Blanche recital at the wonderful Music@Menlo Festival. This year's festival was focused on Brahms, and so was my program. I did stray away, though, into a very specific direction with a couple of interesting addition to the Brahmsfest! Thanks to Music@Menlo for the opportunity and to its wonderful audience for having the patience to sit

JUNE BUG

2011-07-20T12:37:00.004-04:00

The month of June begs for a blog entry. I very proudly managed to squeeze in some of my favorite destinations into our touring schedule and had a wonderful “working” holiday. We ended the month of May with a dream of mine. For very obvious reasons I always wanted to add a visual element to Lucille's and my performance of Stravinsky's own four hand version of the complete Petrouchka ballet. The

FINAL PICS FROM CANADA!

2011-03-20T22:46:00.000-04:00

I have finally found a moment to organize my pictures from Prairie Debut! Check them out here! And let me know what you think!

Early Inspirations

2011-03-11T19:19:00.002-05:00

I was recently asked to provide some artist's notes on the "Early Inspirations" program at Alice Tully Hall on March 25th hosted by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center I will be joined by a wonderful group of musicians (Ani and Ida Kavafian, Paul Neubauer, Anne-Marie McDermott and Nicolas Alsteadt) in some great early works by Mahler, Berg, Shostakovich and Bartok. Here's my two cents.

An Amazing Journey, and gut feelings.....

2011-03-01T15:04:00.000-05:00

Here we are, unbelievably, at the end of the Canadian Prairies Tour for Prairie Debut. We started in October, went back in December and now, for the last and longest leg, in February/March for 11 concerts in 12 days. Tonight, in Brandon, Manitoba, Lucille and I will play the last concert, our 25th event on this long tour. We gave a masterclass this morning at Brandon University, hosted by pianist

Last Prairie Tour Itinerary

2011-02-20T10:37:00.000-05:00

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NEW WEBSITE

2011-01-13T19:52:00.002-05:00

Check out my brand new website.... CLICK HERE

A silly little trailer, and my first (very rough) attempt to video editing......

2010-12-14T15:11:00.001-05:00

Click HERE for the Prairie Debut Trailer

Back to the South (Winnipeg !)

2010-12-07T20:48:00.000-05:00

We're on a flight back to Winnipeg, after our Northern adventure in Thompson and Snow Lake. Internet-less and phone-less for two days we would have felt completely disconnected from the world were not for the warmth of the locals. We had a great time. The two and a half hour drive through a forest reminiscent of the Siberian taiga, was pretty uneventful until we got closer to Snow Lake and a

Canadian Tour 2 - part 1

2010-12-05T21:01:00.002-05:00

Greetings from Thompson, Manitoba. Check it out on this MAP We were greeted by a a balmy -26C (-15F) at the Thompson airport. The air brought me back to our Trans-siberian tours. You can read my first long diary from that amazing trip HERE. The air is cold and dry and as soon as you step out you feel your nose hair starting to freeze. I have to say it is much more pleasant than the relatively

Canada's Prairie Tour- Part Two...itinerary

2010-12-01T21:23:00.001-05:00

Here's the google map itinerary for the second leg of our tour through Canada's Prairies.... More posts to follows...hopefully! :-0

Canadian tour #2

2010-11-02T15:06:00.003-04:00

Tonight is the last concert of the first portion of Canadian "Prairie Debut" tour. At 1600km of driving through Saskatchewan and 6 concerts in 6 days, this is the shortest of three tours. The next one will be in December and the last one in February, for a total of almost 30 concerts and a few workshops. The program is a healthy mix of four hand works with my wife, Lucille Chung, by Mozart,

Canadian Prairies Tour #1

2010-10-29T15:29:00.006-04:00

Oct. 29, 2010 It's the second day of our Canadian "Prairie Debut" tour. We flew into Saskatoon, spent the night and embarked on our drive to Hudson Bay, SK. 330km away, but the roads were so icy already that slow traffic made the journey last about five hours. The scenery is quite stunning. Winter has already started, and we have continuous views of the white prairies, and an enormous sky. It's

Music@Menlo: Found in Translation (Aug 9)

2010-08-12T08:08:00.000-04:00

VIDEO CLIP FROM MUSIC@MENLO 2010's Carte Blanche!Music@Menlo: Found in Translation (Aug 9)

August 8, 10am. Music@Menlo: Carte Blanche Concert IV: Found in Translation

2010-07-30T00:24:00.000-04:00

Music@Menlo: Carte Blanche Concert IV: Found in Translation

It's been a while: a mid-summer night's story

2010-07-23T00:44:00.001-04:00

It's been a while since my last post. It's about 1230am now, but summer is going by so fast that I suddenly felt the need to jot the first part of it down. This is a wonderfully hectic summer. Six festivals, a Rachmaninov Solo CD for Signum, a three-week long tour of Japan, a couple of recitals and a concerto performance are just the musical part of this crazy summer. Lucille and I also sold our

Carte Blanche at Music@Menlo

2010-05-21T15:02:00.000-04:00

I was asked to come up with a Carte Blanche recital concept for this summer's Music@Menlo Festival. Coming up with a three-part recital spanning from Bach to Berio was a very interesting process for me. The concert will take place on August 8th, and will start at 10 am at the Stent Family Hall, at Menlo School. For more info check out the Festival page for the concert. I was also asked to write

My fastest and shortest version of BWV 846

2010-04-25T13:02:00.002-04:00

Click HERE to see the AMEX commercial!!!

Mid-travel

2010-04-25T12:06:00.001-04:00

I'm now at AA's flagship lounge in Miami at the beginning of a month-long "outing". I was lucky enough to spend last week playing at the Aruba International Piano Festival. The name says it all. Lucille joined me and played for the first few concerts but had to leave a couple of days ago to play Saint-Saens' Second Concerto in Toronto. The rehearsal and performing schedule was supposed to be

weather trouble

2010-02-26T11:45:00.000-05:00

8am. I wake up to a snow covered view of Central Park. Pretty, I think, then look down and see cars and buses either stopped on the circle, or spinning their wheels trying to get out of the snow. I get my Blackberry out of bedside mode, and the phone starts buzzing uncontrollably. 10 emails, 7 facebook alerts and 1 voice mail. Everything is pretty standard, but the voice mail worries me. As it

A bonus post about food...

2009-12-27T06:12:00.004-05:00

I know, I know. I meant to stay quiet until the end of 2009, but I just had to post this. It's been a great culinary week. It started with seafood shopping and the amazing Chelsea Market (16th street and 9th avenue) for our Vigilia dinner. I made Lucille's favorite dish...zuppa di pesce (fish soup). We were so impressed with the quality of the seafood at the Chelsea Market. The zuppa di pesce

Home till 2010

2009-12-16T10:21:00.000-05:00

I will finally be home until the new year. After a year full of travels and wonderful places Lucille and I are planning a quiet holiday sitting on the couch, watching TV, eating, and hanging out with our close friends. It's been a great year, personally and musically speaking and I just feel once again so lucky to be doing what I love to do and hopefully getting every day closer and closer to my

it's about time...here's my journal from the first tour of Russia in 2007

2009-11-19T23:15:00.001-05:00

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Back To Rainy NYC, dreaming of myrtle berries and suckling pig...

2009-11-14T18:15:00.000-05:00

It was an interesting 10 days, between the late night flight to Guatemala, our stay there and the hectic few days in Dallas. Flying during the whole night before the concert might just be the way to do it. I was so tired that I slept all the way to Guatemala, was greeted by a hearty breakfast of eggs, beans and coffee, rehearsed with Lucille and slept again. By concert time I was fresh as a rose