Francesco Tristano, pianist and composer of electronic music
“Music is music’. This was Alban Berg’s reply to George Gershwin in Paris in the spring of 1928, asking him why there was no distinction between what we consider ‘educated’ and ‘popular’ music. Francesco Tristano has made this quote his own over the past decade with his work; combining piano and synthesizer, between the scores of Johann Sebastian Bach – but also Frescobaldi, Berio, Buxtehude, Stravinsky and Gershwin, among others – and the latest production and sequencing tools.
Francesco Tristano is a multi-talented artist: pianist, composer, electronic and jazz musician, combining eras, genres and styles in his music. Francesco has become a key reference in a new movement that explores the creative intersection between classical and electronic music, homogenising it in a natural way that unites audiences from different worlds in his own universe. Tristano has collaborated with world-renowned names in various genres, including Derrick May, Carl Craig and Michel Portal, to name a few.
Born in 1981, Tristano discovered the piano at the age of five and studied at the Juilliard School in New York for five years. It was in New York that he began working with electronic and club music and took a master class with Rosalyn Tureck. In 2004 he won first prize in the International Piano Competition for Contemporary Music in Orleans, France. After recent successes such as “A Soft Shell Groove”, Tristano continues to present new compositions regularly.
