Giuseppe Lupis's piano music has been heard across the globe, from the Beijing Conservatory
to the Copenhagen Opera House, from the Berlin Philharmonic to the Martha Argerich
Present Project; through a substantial list of countries, and across major cities
like Sidney, New York, Chicago, Vancouver, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Seoul, Tel
Aviv, Munich, Rome, Madrid, Brussels, London, Edinburgh, Helsinki, Oslo; from the
BBC to ABC Australia, Hungarian, Danish, Swiss, Italian, Vatican broadcasting; and
through a series of recordings. Lupis‚' pedal piano arrangement of Gounod's Marche
funebre d‚'une marionette, has been recorded on DVD and performed extensively by Roberto
Prosseda, including in a 2018 Spanish concert season featuring also Mitsuko Uchida,
Grigory Sokolov, YuJa Wang, Radu Lupu, Murray Perahia, Benjamin Grosvernor, Deszö
Ranki, Jan Lisieki, and conductor Gustavo Dudamel. To date, this is the most performed
pedal piano work in the world. Duo Miroirs realized, and toured with, a four-hand
arrangement of Lupis‚' 8 Variations, One Crazy, on Ah! Vous Dirai-je Maman, which
can be enjoyed on CD and DVD by Limen Music. Lupis‚' music has additionally been performed
and presented in academic settings such as Harvard, and the Peabody Conservatory.
ICMA Young Artist of the Year 2013 Alessandro Mazzamuto has commissioned Lupis a piano
concerto. Pianist Alessandro Vena just recorded Lupis‚' Approximately 5 Preludes for
Sheva Collection, while planning to record Lupis‚' entire piano output in 2019. Early
works will be soon available as recorded by pianist Hyunjung Rachel Chung. Lupis‚'
is also a concert pianist. He has taught piano for twenty-six years, spending the
last sixteen in the American academia. He currently teaches piano as adjunct faculty
at ÂÌñÒùÆÞ in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Lupis holds a Doctorate from the University
of Georgia.
