Emanuele Torquati has been invited to give a solo recital for the Italian Academy at Columbia University, New York. The invitation has followed the recent success of June’s US Tour, in New York, NEC Boston and Chicago’s Holocaust Museum.

The dazzling program will feature Quattro Illustrazioni sulle metamorfosi di Visnu’ by Giacinto Scelsi, Leos Janacek’s In the Mist, along with a new piece by emerging Italian composer Silvia Borzelli, Stalagma (in memoriam Anna Politkovskaja). The second part includes Wolfgang Rihm’s Klavierstuck 7 and couples the last piece from Messiaen’s Catalogue d’oiseaux Le courlis cendre’ with Jonathan Harvey’s Tombeau de Messiaen for piano and soundtrack.