Biografia – Inglese

Attilio Puglielli

The Italian pianist Attilio Puglielli was born in 1993 into a family of musicians. He began studying piano with Nunzia Luisa Di Leo and at the age of eight he made his debut with a solo recital in his hometown Lecce. Numerous international piano competitions followed, affirming his talent and bringing many prizes. Under the guidance of the piano pedagogue Carlo Scorrano, professor at the Conservatorio “Tito Schipa in Lecce, he first completed the piano diploma (Bachelor level), then the soloist diploma (Master level), both with the highest possible grades and top honours.

His early competition successes brought him many concert appearances at home and abroad. His great musicality and outstanding technical and interpretive abilities are appreciated by audiences and critics alike. The pianist showed these skills at an early age and was able to perfect them thanks to his studies with renowned interpreters and piano pedagogues such as Aldo Ciccolini, Michele Marvulli, Rolf-Dieter Arens, Roberto Cappello, Andrej Gavrilov, Adrian Oetiker and Homero Francesch.

Attilio Puglielli has given concerts in Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Belgium, Serbia and Great Britain. Highlights to date include appearances in renowned concert halls such as the Vienna Musikverein, the Royal Albert Hall and the Teatro La Fenice.

In 2013, thanks to a scholarship from the Société Frédéric Chopin in Geneva, he attended masterclasses with the pianists Aldona Budrewicz-Jacobson and, within the framework of the Chopin Festival, Eugen Indjic.

Three years later he was awarded the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship for Foreign Students (ESKAS).

In 2018 he won the Kiefer Hablitzel / Göhner Music Prize in Berne and the renowned Prix Collard for the best interpretation of a composition by a French composer.

In the same year he completed the Master of Arts in Music Performance under the guidance of Nora Doallo, professor at the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana in Lugano, with the highest possible grades and top honours. In 2022, also in Lugano, he received the Master of Advanced Studies in Music Performance and Interpretation with the highest possible grades and top honours.

Attilio Puglielli gave master classes in the programme La Scuola dei Suoni (The School of Sounds) in Lecce and worked as piano accompanist and chamber musician at the Conservatorio Tito Schipa in Lecce and at the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana in Lugano.

At present Attilio Puglielli distributes his professional activity between Italy and Switzerland. Former professor at several conservatories in Italy, in Lecce he holds a full professorship in piano at the ‘Tito Schipa’ Conservatory of Music and he works as artistic director of the Young Italian Musicians Association and the festival “Musica e Medicina” (Music and Medicine). In Lugano, he is piano assistant of Nora Doallo at the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana and he conducts research in the field of cultural mediation in collaboration with the Conservatorio’s research department.

He regularly gives concerts at home and abroad.