The piano duo formed by Monica Leone and Michele Campanella has no official date of birth, but is the natural development of the habit of playing together—first as teacher and student, then as partners in music and in life. It is the result of a shared mentality and approach to the piano, having both grown up, at different times, in Vincenzo Vitale’s school. Their ever-expanding repertoire includes music for four hands and two pianos, ranging from Bach to Bartók. Among their most performed pieces are an extensive anthology of four-hand music by Schubert, Ferruccio Busoni’s Fantasia Contrappuntistica, Beethoven/Liszt’s Ninth Symphony, Stravinsky’s Concerto for Two Pianos, Liszt’s Dante Symphony, and Poulenc’s Sonata. They have performed at prestigious venues and festivals around the world: from the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome to the Sydney Opera House; from the Coliseo in Buenos Aires to Beijing, Shanghai, and Canton; from the Settimana Musicale Senese to the Sagra Umbra in Perugia; from the Teatro San Carlo in Naples to the Orchestra della Toscana in Florence, the Orchestra da Camera di Padova e del Veneto, the Orchestra dei Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan, the Istituzione Universitaria dei Concerti in Rome, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, and the Rossini Opera Festival; from the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino to the Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte in Montepulciano, to Auckland in New Zealand, and to Melbourne and Brisbane in Australia.
