Francesco Caramiello was born in Naples in 1964. He took his diploma at the “San Pietro a Majella” obtaining top marks and distinction in piano, which he studied under Vincenzo Vitale and Massimo Bertucci, and in composition under the guidance of Bruno Mazzotta.
He has played with prestigious orchestras: Philharmonia Orchestra,
Nürnberger
Philharmoniker, the Youth Orchestra of the Salzburg Mozarteum,
the
Sicilian Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of the
Teatro Comunale of Cagliari, and
has appeared at the Barbican Centre
in London, at the Philharmonie
di Nürnberg, the
Merkin
Concert Hall of New York, the Teatro Golden of
Palermo, the Tetro
di San Carlo of Napoli,
the
Teatro
Comunale of Cagliari at
“Festspillene” of Bergen (Norway) and in Japan at the University of Chubu and the Nagoya
Auditorium.
He
also gives concerts on
period
instruments and for years has devoted attention to
the discovery of Italian composers, an interest reflected by his many recordings
of works by Sgambati (the complete
piano works in four cds for Agorà and the complete chamber works in two cds and
Pianoconcerto for ASV) of the two Piano Concertos and piano works by Martucci in
four cds for ASV, and works by
Dohler, Paer, Ricci, ecc. Played on a Pleyel
of 1862 (Opus 111). He also recorded for Agorà a cd
with the Sonatas of Copland
and Carter and the piano studies of
Ives, and in collaboration with other pianists of the same neapolitan school Die
Kunst der Fingerfertigkeit op. 740 di Czerny (Musikstrasse).