2. Achille Giordano “The classical pianist with a Velvet Sound that softly touches your heart "

3. Achille Giordano is an italian pianist who is playing classical music both as soloist and with orchestra. Due to his great natural talent, he completed the whole piano studies in only four years.

4. Especially appreciated for “his velvety touch and his sensible musical suggestions”, so as mentioned by critics, in addition to the concert activity, he also holds masterclass and high improvement piano courses in Italy and abroad.

5. Endowed with a great passion for classical music, he runs a lot of cultural activities and he is achieving musical international projects having the aim to emphasize, spread and keep alive the interest in piano literature.

6. Concert activity His repertory, enough varied and wide, ranges from classics to contemporaries, and it also includes many authors from Countries like Japan, China, Norway, Finland, Russia, Romania, Armenia, on which music he also holds concert conferences. Concert activity His repertory, enough varied and wide, ranges from classics to contemporaries, and it also includes many authors from Countries like Japan, China, Norway, Finland, Russia, Romania, Armenia, on which music he also holds concert conferences. He is often playing rarely performed or unknown pieces of classical music and may be considered as a "hunter of musical pearls", to which gives brilliance by help of piano.

7. During his career, he performed at various festivals in important cities like: Saint Petersburg (Russia) Chisinau (Moldova) Timisoara (Romania) Ravello (Italy) Saint Petersburg (Russia)Chisinau (Moldova)Timisoara (Romania) Ravello (Italy) “His charming piano playing emphasizes the inner beauty of the musical message, with a velvet sound”

8. Didactic activity Due to his wealthy musical knowledge and to his international artistic experience, he is adding to his concert activity also the didactic one, and he is often invited to hold High Improvement Courses and Masterclass for piano solo and with orchestra. Didactic activity Due to his wealthy musical knowledge and to his international artistic experience, he is adding to his concert activity also the didactic one, and he is often invited to hold High Improvement Courses and Masterclass for piano solo and with orchestra. He addresses a particular interest to deepen the interpretative points of the piano literature, teaching to discover, convey and make the most of the beauty of the musical message of each composition.

9. His didactic activity includes High Improvement Courses and Masterclass in many italian and foreign musical institutions. High School of Music “Ciprian Porumbescu” - Chisinau (Moldova) High School of Music - Iasi (Romania) The Faculty of Music - Timisoara (Romania) The Academy of Music “Polaris” - Giffoni Sei Casali (Italy)

10. He managed the Music Department of the International Academy of Music and Arts “Polaris” and at present he is paying a special attention to the concert and didactic activities. Moreover, he is the Artistic Director of the International Piano Competition “Giuseppe Terracciano”.

11. “A refined pianist, able to stir up warm emotions thanks to an exquisite music sensitiveness, expressed by means of a fascinating and particularly delicate touch.” AGIRE (Italy) “…it shows up the skill of the pianist in searching new sonority and new hidden thematic elements, thanks to a careful reading of the music text.” Cronache del Mezzogiorno (Italy) “The soloist showed an absolute certainty, with a velvety and expressive sound, an extraordinary brilliance of the interpretation, a very interesting and original re- interpretation of the music text (he also composed himself cadenzas), and with all that he was able to transmit to the audience the emotions of an authentic interpretation, based on a faultless technique.” Obiectiv (Romania) “The interpretation was exciting, and stired up a lot of emotions thanks to delicate sonorities, a refined cantabile and close dialogues with the orchestra, that showed a true music personality.” Il Grifone del Picentino (Italy) Press Review

12. Achille Giordano www.achillegiordano.com info@achillegiordano.com