COSTA & CASANOVA
piano duo
WINNER OF GLOBAL MUSIC AWARDS 2019
BEST ALBUM & BEST DUO
A couple in music and life, since forming their dynamic musical partnership in 2014, Italian pianists Sara Costa & Fabiano Casanova have toured worldwide playing piano four hands and two pianos concerts.
In Italy they have successfully played in Rome – Museo Carlo Bilotti, Roma Tre Orchestra – Milan, Bergamo - Sala Greppi and Auditorium S. Alessandro, Palazzo Visconti in Brignano Gera d’Adda and Castello Visconteo in Pagazzano – and abroad in London -Saint Martin in the Fields – and Slovenia – Ptuj Festival.
Their concerts got good reviews from national newspaper such as Corriere della Sera and L’Eco di Bergamo. Sara and Fabiano appeared also on various local italian Tv and Radio stations.
They have got a Master Degree in Piano Duo Performance at Conservatorio Pollini in Padua (Italy) Summa cum Laude under the guidance of Russian pianist and teacher Konstantin Bogino.
Acclaimed for their charismatic and intense playing, they are interested in discovering also less played repertoire for piano duo.
In September 2019 they released their first CD "Russian music for piano four hands" fo Da Vinci Classics.
The CD is winner of the prestigious Global Music Award in California, USA.
Together, Sara and Fabiano are the Artistic Directors of "Il Castello Armonico" Chamber Music Festival near Bergamo, in the North of Italy.
REPERTOIRE 2024/25
TWO PIANOS
J. Brahms Variations on a theme by Haydn op.56a
R. Schumann Andante and variations op.46
S.Rachmaninov Suite n.2 op.17
FOUR HANDS
F. Schubert, Rondò in la maggiore op. 107 D951
E. Satie, Trois Morceaux en Forme de Poire
F. Schubert, Fantasia in fa minore op.103 D940
M. Ravel, La Valse (arr. L. Garban)
O.Respighi Fountains of Rome
Rossini/Schoenberg "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" Ouverture
2025
JUN 16
Teatro Rosetum, Milano - Fondazione La Società dei Concerti di Milano
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2024
JUN 19
Aponus Piano Festival, Ritz Hotel,
Abano Terme
2023
AUG 1-5
37th Sandviken Chamber Music Festival, Sweden
AUG 12
Settimane Musicali Internazionali - Pinacoteca di Voltaggio
SEPT 17
Il Castello Armonico - Caravaggio (BG)
OCT 27
Accademia Perosi - Biella
DEC 2
Auditorium S. Alessandro - Bergamo
2022
FEB 20
Auditorium Celesti, Desenzano del Garda
MAR 19
Chiesa di Valbrembo (BG)
JUN 18
Chiesa di San Bernardino, Caravaggio (BG)
IL CASTELLO ARMONICO FESTIVAL
AUG 10
Museo Mine di Cavirglia (AR)
VALDARNO PIANO FESTIVAL
OCT 27
Casetta degli Angeli, Mozzo (BG)
OBIETTIVO MUSICA 2022
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2020
MAR 7
Salotto in Prova, Milan (IT)
JUN 18
Mantova Musica - Palazzo Te , Mantova
JUL 14
Accademia Perosi, Biella
AUG 28
Saint Martin in the Fields, London
2019
APR 7
Conservatorio Nicolini , Piacenza (IT)
MAY 4-5
CD recording
SEPT-NOV
Artistic Directors of "IL CASTELLO ARMONICO" Festival
31 OCT
Steinway Piano Gallery,
Passadori Pianoforti - Brescia
3 NOV
Palazzo Visconti,
Brignano Gera d'Adda (BG)
15 DIC
Castello Oldofredi,
Iseo Iseo Classica
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