Paolo Vergari was born in Falerone (Fermo-Italy) and studied Piano and Composition at the “L.
D'Annunzio” Conservatory in Pescara. Among his teachers we mention G. De Fanti, E. Hubert, M.
Della Chiesa D'Isasca, A. Ciccolini, T. Nikolajewa, A. Hintchev.
He has performed concerts as soloist and in chamber ensembles at major concert halls and for
international festivals including Teatro La Fenice Venice, Teatro Regio Parma, Teatro Olimpico
Vicenza, Accademia Santa Cecilia Rome, the Royal Palace of Caserta, Teatro Regio Turin, Teatro
Verdi Salerno, UN Auditorium New York, Dante Alighieri Centre Moscow, Klementinum and B.
Martinu hall Prague, Salle Cortot Paris, A. Williams hall Buenos Aires, IRCAM Paris, Manoel
National Theatre Malta, CCSP São Paulo Brazil.
His performances have been broadcast by RAI, TMC, Radio France, RSI, Radio Maltese, Blu Sat
2000 and ORF, Senado TV Brazil.
He tours Asia regularly, China specially, and has been in this Country several times since 2004,
performing in the most important concert halls in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and
Shenyang.
He has performed as soloist wih the Philarmonia of Salta, Windkraft Orchestra, Orchestra of Radio
Sofia, Lublin Philharmonic Orchestra, Bacau Philharmonic Orchestra (Romania), State of Mexico
Symphony Orchestra, Fiati di Parma wind orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra of Brno, Orchestra
Sinfonica of Benevento and RAI National Symphony Orchestra. He has played under conductors
such as Giorgio Bernasconi, Mirjam Schimdt, Marco Della Chiesa D’Isasca, Petr Altrichter, Kaspar
De Roo, Michele Santorsola, Jorge Lhez, F. Ivan Ciampa.
His interest on the masterpieces of chamber music has led to major collaborations with the
Szymanowski strings Quartett, violinist Nicolas Chumachenco, flutist Dante Milozzi and with the
Ensemble Oggimusica of Lugano.
He was also a founding member of the ADM Ensemble of Modena. He has partecipated in various
international music festivals including: Montepellier and Radio France, Festival of Stresa, Musica
Riva in Riva Del Garda, Giardino della Musica Milan, BadiaMusica Bolzano and Festival Pontino
(Latina).
He is been the founder and artistic director of BadiaMusica (Bolzano), an international festival
launched in 2000 which each year hosts symphonic and chamber music performed by prestigious
musicians.
He has made numerous recordings, including the complete concertos for piano and orchestra by
Gian Francesco Malipiero performed in 2005 with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Iasi (Romania)
released in 2007.
Noted by the critics as one of the most important works released in recent years, in 2003 he made
the first ever recording of a double CD containing the 40 “Studi di perfezionamento” by Gino
Tagliapietra.
He has recorded the Goyescas by E. Granados for the label Clarius Audi and works by composers
such as O. Messiaen, L. Liviabella and C. Rastelli for the labels Phoenix and Altrisuoni.
Currently he is working with DaVinci Classics Edition recording works by F. Liszt (Harmonies
Poétique et Religiesuses), R. Schumann, F. Schubert, J. Brahms (The Last Piano Works).
In 2010 he composed the music for the movie “Duns Scoto” by director Fernando Muraca, and
recently in 2019 he created the sound track of the Film- Documentary “The Innocents of Florence
by the director David Battistella.
Following the passion and practise of improvisation, throught several workshops with François
Rossé, Vergari have performed concerts on improvisations for piano solo and with other musicians
as Carlo Rizzo (virtuoso player of Tamburello), Elisa Tonelli (voice), Massimiliano Dragoni
(percussion); with them has recorded CD Taka’s Question (2010).