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Nazzareno Carusi (born 9 November 1968) is an Italian pianist. A pupil of Alexis Weissenberg and Victor Merzhanov, he also studied with Lucia Passaglia and Adriano Vendramelli. The classical studies with Ugo Maria Palanza and Vittoriano Esposito and the meetings with the Dominican theologian F. Innocenzo Colosio, pupil of Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, and Isaac Stern were decisive for his formation.
He is considered among the piano virtuosos in which, however, strong elements of musical research go beyond the mere domain of the keyboard
and his pianism has been described either as a synthesis between the Russian school of Emil Gilels and Richter and the German tradition of Claudio Arrau, or as the personal expression of a sovereign musical freedom.
At the turn of the 10s, he was the first classical pianist to sign an exclusive with a main commercial television: Mediaset 10. He participated with very high ratings in popular programs 11 and the critics recognized him that, despite the "lightness" of these occasions, he gave up nothing of the rigor of the classical artist 12. He conducted a popular column for Mattino Cinque, some excerpts of which were collected in the album "Petrolio", and he also played with Italian pop and jazz stars like Lucio Dalla, Simona Molinari and Sergio Cammariere. He conceived the melologues "Notturno a Shakespeare" with Pietrangelo Buttafuoco 14 and "Discorso a due" with Vittorio Sgarbi. Finally, he collaborated weekly with the magazine Panorama, the all-news tv channel Tgcom24 and the newspaper Libero. For this commitments he was awarded the Special Mention of the "Giustiniano Prize" in Ravenna in 2013 16.
In 2018, the consequences of three vertebral fractures forced him to retire from concert activity and it was the former Secretary of the Italian Council of Ministers Gianni Letta who understood his institutional capacities too and since then started him on the management and artistic direction career.Gianni Letta: «Carusi is a glory of Abruzzo, due to his biography, his high sense of institutions and his profound capacity of cultural vision».
On February 10, 2021, it was his initiative that led the world of performing arts, for the first time in the history of the Italian Republic, to consultations for the formation of the new government by the appointed Prime Minister Mario Draghi.Carlo Fontana: «It has been Nazzareno Carusi, with his artistic authority and sensitivity, who propitiated for the first time in the history of the Italian Republic the meeting of the performing art's world with the appointed Prime Minister Mario Draghi. Maestro Carusi has had a precious and spontaneous gesture and we must give him great thankfulness for this. On behalf of the Italian General Association of Performing Arts (AGIS), all our gratitude and appreciation goes to him». Today, he is a notable cultural manager, holding the positions of Board Member and Artistic Committee Member of the Teatro alla Scala's Philharmonic Orchestra, President of the "Alfredo Casella" Conservatory of L'Aquila, Vice President of the Foundation "Orchestra Regionale Toscana" of Florence. He has been the artistic director of the 57th Paganini Competition, considered one of the top famous violin competitions in the world, which under his direction has recorded the highest ever subscribers' number since its foundation.
He's engaged with the Italian pharmaceutical chemist Erminia Bianchino, chief of the Nutraceutical Laboratory at BioGeM, and together they have a son, Leone Paolo (2025). He also has three other children: Francesco (2005) , Émilie (2008) and Elisabetta (2013).
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