A multiple Grammy® Nominee and Latin Grammy® Nominee, pianist Allison Brewster Franzetti has received international acclaim from critics and audiences alike for her stunning virtuosity and musicality, both as a soloist and chamber musician. Notable performances include the Grammy® Awards Classical Music Tribute to Earl Wild and Lang Lang at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the American Classical Music Hall of Fame, the Robert Schumann Festival at the Marcella Sembrich Museum in Lake George, New York, the Campeche Festival in Mexico and the VI International Festival of Music at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has been a guest artist with the Brooklyn Philharmonic (featured on NBC-TV News), the English Sinfonia, the City of Prague Philharmonic, the Denver Symphony, the Colonial Symphony playing her arrangement for solo piano and orchestra of St. Saens’ “Carnival of the Animals,” the European Women’s Orchestra, and the Adelphi Orchestra, amongst others. She performed the world premiere of “Piano Concerto No. 2” by Carlos Franzetti at the Teatro Colon with the Orquesta Filarmonica de Buenos Aires, commissioned as part of their 50th anniversary season, the European premiere with the Janacek Philharmonic, and the US premiere with the Queens Symphony Orchestra. Solo recital performances include critically acclaimed debuts at Merkin Hall in New York, the Teatro Colon, Wigmore Hall, and tours throughout the US, Mexico, Europe, Argentina and Japan. An accomplished accompanist and chamber musician, Allison Brewster Franzetti has collaborated with some of the finest performers and composers in the world, including Sir James Galway, John Corigliano, Stephen Paulus, Lowell Liebermann, Robert Aldridge, Ransom Wilson, Eugenia Zukerman, Julius Baker, Robert White, Paquito D’Rivera, and members of major US and international symphony orchestras. She is the senior pianist for the Florida Flute Association and pianist for the National Flute Association.
