Album Description"Finalist Davide Cabassi?seems likely to be heard from again. This bear-sized pianist?s exquisitely beautiful playing of Schoenberg?s Six Little Piano Pieces, Op. 19, was a highpoint of the finals." ?THE BALTIMORE SUN Piano transcriptions of orchestral works were long regarded as an insignificant genre, but ambitious transcriptions are actually works of art in their own right. Proof of the high artistic standard of the transcriptions recorded here is supplied by the fact that the composers of the original works arranged them. 2005 Cliburn Competition finalist Davide Cabassi made his orchestral debut at the age of thirteen with the RAI Symphony Orchestra in Milan. His Carnegie Hall debut took place in January 2006. He has also collaborated with the Munich Philharmonic, the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen, and the Russian Chamber Philharmonic, as well as with several Italian orchestras. As a top prizewinner of the Twelfth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Cabassi has embarked on three years of concert engagements throughout the U.S..