Lorenzo Meo | Biography

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Biography

Lorenzo Meo received a degree in piano with honours from the Conservatory of Bologna. He went on to specialize at the Accademia Nazionale Santa Cecilia in Rome, Accademia Musicale Pescarese and Accademia Musicale Clodiense, while actively pursuing studies in composition and arrangement. Artists as Paolo Bordoni, Kostantin Bogino, Boris Bekhterev, Aldo Ciccolini, Alexander Lonquich, Paul Badura Skoda, Rocco Filippini have had a major influence on him as a musician.

His piano and orchestra debut performances were Rachmaninov's second concert and Mozart's K491 concert, though already in his first recitals he experimented by playing traditional repertory and unknown scores, highlighting his constant interest in exploring less played pieces from modern and contemporary 20th century music.

Prize winner of several piano competitions, he recorded music by Sweden composer Hilden Rosemberg in Brussels. Then he went on recording "Boundaries" (2005), a musical portrait of the composer Jaan Rääts, "The E.P.M Project" (2006), containing solo piano music by Estonian composers Erkki-Sven Tüür and Jaan Rääts, and later a monographic album dedicated to French composer Francis Poulenc's piano music (2007). He's now working on a discographic project involving 20th century American composers' piano music, such as Eliott Carter, Aaron Copland and Donald Keats.

In addition to his concert activity he attended the Composition and the Arrangement courses at the Conservatory of Bologna. In 2006 and 2007 he realized symphonic revisings of music by Nicola Piovani, Armando Trovajoli and Riz Ortolani performed by the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna for the "Compositori per il cinema" exhibition. In the same period he worked on "The Styled Piano" project and wrote music for theater shows and documentaries.