BIOGRAPHY 

Edoardo Bruni is an italian pianist and composer from Trento.

After classical studies, he graduated with full marks in piano from the Conservatories of Trento (Maddalena Giese) and Rotterdam (Aquiles Delle Vigne), subsequently studying in masterclasses with Arnaldo Cohen, Lazar Berman, Andra Schiff and Leonid Margarius. He graduated in composition with full marks at the Conservatory of Trento (Armando Franceschini, Carlo Galante, Cosimo Colazzo), later studying with Alexander Müllenbach, Azio Corghi, Luis Bacalov. He graduated in Philosophy with full marks at the University of Padova with a thesis “The teleonomic explanation in biology” (Prof. Giovanni Boniolo). He became a Ph.D. in Musicology at the University of Trento and the University of Paris IV – Sorbonne, graduating with full marks with a thesis “Systematic of pitches” (joint supervision Prof. Rossana Dalmonte – Prof. Nicolas Meeùs).

He has been performing concerts in Italy and Europe since 1992, as a pianist (soloist and in chamber ensembles, with classical, contemporary and jazz programs) and as a composer (with several performances of his works). He is invited as a member of the jury in national and international competitions of piano and composition. He has taught at the Scuola Musicale Giudicarie, and at the Conservatories of Verona, Padova, Trento, Siena, Frosinone, Riva Del Garda, Darfo. He is actually teacher of Score Reading at the Conservatory of Vicenza. He is founder and president of Associazione Ars Modi, for which he is artistic director of several music festivals in Northern Italy: Più Piano, Katharsis, GiudiJazz, Casa Raphael, Giovani Talenti, Piccola Rassegna Classica Dolo. In 2023-2024, he toured Europe on “The Goldberg Tour – 32 x 32”, performing Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations in 32 concerts.   

As a composer, he formulated his own aesthetic vision in the “Manifesto dell’Estetica della Catarsi”, and formalised his personal and new compositional technique, the Pan-Modality, which intends to synthesise and surpass the duality between tonality and atonality. Relying on the Aesthetic of Katharsis and on the Technique of Pan-Modality, he is currently engaged in the compositional project “Ars Modi – The Art of the Mode”.

He published five CDs:

Bach: Goldberg Variations (ANIMA, Paris, 2013)

HyperSpectives: Complete piano works 1992-2002 (ANIMA, Paris, 2014)

HyperSpectives: Complete chamber music 1994-2008 (TACTUS, Bologna, 2021)

Ars Modi vol. 1: Ars Modi Works 2010-2014 (ANIMA, Paris, 2015)

Ars Modi vol. 2: Ars Modi Works 2015-2016 (TACTUS, Bologna, 2019)

He produced several online albums:

Ars Modi: Vol. 3: Ars Modi Works 2022-2023

Musica per armonica e pianoforte (Works for chromatic harmonica and piano)

Ensemble Garnerama: Jazzy (Music by Bolling, Bollani, Bruni, Brubeck)

Note di viaggio 2004 (with Santo Albertini, chromatic harmonica)

Note di viaggio 2010 (with Santo Albertini, chromatic harmonica)

Note di viaggio 2020 (with Santo Albertini, chromatic harmonica)

Note di viaggio 2025 (with Santo Albertini, chromatic harmonica)