Nazzareno Carusi

Nazzareno Carusi (born November 9, 1968, in Celano, Abruzzo) is an Italian pianist. He studied the Piano under Lucia Passaglia, Alexis Weissenberg and Victor Merzhanov. He studied also the Chamber music under Adriano Vendramelli, and received advices from Isaac Stern.

Italian conductor Riccardo Muti has described him as « a superlative pianist and an artist of the highest order ».

Since his 2003 Carnegie Hall (Weill Recital) debut in New York, Carusi has been invited to perform for the world’s principal institutions, capitals and music centers, including La Scala in Milan,Teatro di San Carlo in Neaples,La Fenice in Venice, the Wigmore Hall in London, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Toronto Centre for the Arts, the Palau de la Música in València, the Zipper Hall in Los Angeles, the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, and several times again at Carnegie Hall. He has shared the stage with dozens of top artists and orchestras including the Camerata of the Berlin Philharmonic, Eleonora Buratto, the Fine Arts Quartet, Mischa Maisky, Domenico Nordio and the Soloists of La Scala.