Andrés Barrios
The Sevillian Andrés Barrios represents the present of the Spanish piano, combining an intense and award-winning classical training with the technique, knowledge and experience of flamenco and jazz. He has received numerous awards, including the prestigious "Filón" at the Festival del Cante de las Minas. His extraordinary interpretative skills are accompanied by a generous creative talent and the signing of several solo albums of original compositions, taken on tour all over the world. His live performances are a true show of energy, complicity and original connection with the audience.
Andrés Barrios is one of the most accomplished pianists and composers on the contemporary art scene. Despite his young age, he has already performed in numerous countries, from India to Brazil, from the United States to the United Arab Emirates, from Colombia to Slovenia. He has played in prestigious halls such as the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid and the Alte Oper in Frankfurt. His new albums, KM.0 and De Barrios a Lorca, offer an energetic and innovative reinterpretation of music, deeply contemporary but rooted in the traditions of his land.
Great music in Milan
The PIANO IN THE UNIVERSITY Project is the result of an agreement between the Milan branch of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and one of the most important manufacturers in the world of musical instruments, Kawai Pianos of Hamamatsu (Japan). Its promoters are the Master Davide Cabassi (professor at the Milan Conservatory) and Prof. Enrico Reggiani (director of the Studium Musicale di Ateneo) as, respectively, artistic creator and scientific director.
The aim of the Project is to contribute to enriching the musical offer of the City of Milan according to innovative criteria and methods from a cultural-musicological point of view and of the highest artistic profile, first of all, by establishing a chamber music season at the Aula Magna of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan which will make use of established and prestigious names in international piano concertism.