Fabio Parrini

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“Fabio Parrini has been a friend of mine for more than a dozen years or so. As a musician he is a consummate artist with an amazing capacity for both technical detail and interpretive nuance. Every time I hear him or listen to his recordings, I learn something new, about either the music he performs or how it really should be played. I especially recommend his most recent recording of the Schumann Fantasie Op. 17, which captures an absolutely visionary performance.”

“"Mr. Parrini is a sensitive pianist. He chose George Gershwin's Three Preludes from 1926 as the opening work. In the second prelude, he demonstrated that an Italian-born classical pianist can "lay back" like the best jazz piano players, delaying each note of the tune until just after the beat. The third "Spanish Prelude" reminds one of Xavier Cugat's influence on jazz. Parrini chose more twentieth-century music to open the second half. Toru Takemitsu's Saegirarenai Kyūsoku I (Uninterrupted Rest) is written without barlines. The three brief movements evoke emotions, including meanness and love. It was a pleasure to hear these novel works in concert, played with authority and depth of feeling."”

“"Both [Eun-Sun Lee and Fabio Parrini] seemed especially comfortable in Mendelssohn's Sonata in F Major for violin and piano composed in 1838...Challenging sequences with brilliant solo interludes for both instruments proved an equalizing tour de force. As if sun broke through the clouds, the mood turned jubilant with instrumental pyrotechnics to match. The race-like final presto, with its graceful arching of phrases, gave full vent to the virtuosic duet performance."”

“"Pianist Fabio Parrini established himself immediately as a fine collaborator, carefully voicing his piano pieces to complement the other instruments. ....Ms. Steinbeck and Mr. Parrini were fully in command, and gave the audience an introduction to a very pleasing work with a lot of depth. It would be good to hear more of this composer’s works played with the same assurance and authority that this performance gave us..... Having had the benefit of attending the working rehearsal during which the trio painstakingly put together their interpretation, I could appreciate the effort that went into putting together the angular syncopation, the hemiolas and accents, the open strings, the piano articulation, the harmonics and the coloration. The result was a performance that was definitive and authoritative. They made it sound easy."”

“"The destiny of the instrument leads to Ravel's great use of color in "Scarbo" through the Romantic epic, as widely and fully illustrated by Schumann's "Symphonic Etudes", Op. 13. Parrini meditates upon those messages and is able to grasp their meaning, first as a historic document, and then as a moment of clear and illuminating art, which is more important. He tackles and unveils them with fierce technique, and adds a sort of very personal optimistic quality to it all, due to his youthful yet thoughtful character. The large audience listened to him attentively and applauded him as he deserved, obtaining an encore by Bach."”

“"The "Musical Spring" series of the "Amici della Musica" allowed Fabio Parrini (last year's winner of the "Porrino" Competition) to exhibit his flawless technique one more time, along with an uncommon intensity of expression."”

“"The performance of Ravel's Concerto in G was about parrini's enchanting work as solo pianist. His strengths were best displayed in the trill-laden cadenza of the first movement, with its beautiful left-hand melody, and the simple lyrical melody which opens the second. Parrini also performed with pristine clarity a Liszt transcription of a Paganini etude as an encore."”

“"The level of students was impressive, and one of them, Fabio Parrini, is a born pianist; he played two of Rachmaninoff's Etudes-Tableaux."”

“"Next came W. A. Mozart's Piano Concerto in C Major KV 467, brought to us by the young pianist Fabio Parrini, the featured artist of this concert, who pleasantly surprised us with his precise touch and good phrasing."”