イタリア・バーリに生まれる。8歳でピアノを始め、14歳でバーリ音楽院を首席卒業。16歳でアメリカ・ダラスの南メソジスト大学に入学し、スペインの巨匠ホアキン・アチュカロに師事、ピアノ演奏コースで音楽修士号を取得。

1997年第3回浜松国際ピアノ・コンクール、2000年リーズ国際ピアノ・コンクールで優勝。2009年エイヴリー・フィッシャー・キャリア・グラント、13年にはA.ウォルフ室内楽賞および、新進アーティストとしてリンカーン・センター賞を受賞。

これまでに、ロンドン・フィル、ロイヤル・フィル、ニューヨーク・フィル、ボストン響、サンクトペテルブルク・フィル、シドニー響、N響、東響を含む150以上のオーケストラ、マリン・オルソップ、サー・アンドルー・デイヴィス、ファビオ・ルイージ、サー・サイモン・ラトル、ユーリ・テルミカーノフ、ヤープ・ヴァン・ズヴェーデンをはじめとする指揮者と共演。

ソリストとして、ロンドンのウィグモアホール、ワシントンDCのケネディー・センター、ニューヨークのカーネギーホール他でリサイタルを行うほか、優れた室内楽奏者としても知られ、ジョシュア・ベル、樫本大進、タベア・ツィンマーマン、スティーヴン・イッサリース、ジャン＝ギアン・ケラス、エマニュエル・パユ、イアン・ボストリッジを含むトップ・アーティストと共演。

2017年よりイタリア・トスカーナ州のオルチャ渓谷地帯で行われる夏の音楽祭「シエナでの出会い」の芸術監督を務めるほか、シアトル、サロン・ド・プロヴァンス、ヴェルビエ、ラヴィニアなどの国際音楽祭に招かれ出演している。

これまでに「バッハ・トランスクライブド」、「ベートーヴェン：ピアノ協奏曲第5番」、「イタリアン・インスピレーション」をはじめとする数多くのＣＤをリリース

ニューヨーク在住。ボストン・ニューイングランド音楽院で後進の指導にも当たる。

写真クレジット：Marco Borggreve

Combining exceptional lyricism and insight with consummate technique, Alessio Bax is without a doubt “among the most remarkable young pianists now before the public” (Gramophone). He catapulted to prominence with First Prize wins at both the Leeds and Hamamatsu International Piano Competitions, and is now a familiar face on five continents, not only as a recitalist and chamber musician, but also as a concerto soloist who has appeared with more than 150 orchestras, including the London, Royal, and St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestras, the New York, Boston, Dallas, Cincinnati, Seattle, Sydney, and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestras, and the NHK Symphony in Japan, collaborating with such eminent conductors as Marin Alsop, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Sir Andrew Davis, Fabio Luisi, Sir Simon Rattle, Yuri Temirkanov, and Jaap van Zweden.

Bax constantly explores many facets of his career.  He released his eleventh Signum Classics album, Italian Inspirations, whose program was also the vehicle for his solo recital debut at New York’s 92nd Street Y as well as on tour. He recently debuted with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, playing Schumann Concerto and the Seattle Symphony with Saint-Saëns’ Second Piano Concerto and embarked on a trio tour of Spain with violinist Joshua Bell and cellist Steven Isserlis.  Bax and his regular piano duo partner, Lucille Chung, gave recitals at New York’s Lincoln Center and were featured with the St. Louis Symphony and Stéphane Denève. He has also toured extensively with Joshua Bell and presented the complete works of Beethoven for cello and piano with cellist Paul Watkins in New York City.

Bax revisited Mozart’s K. 491 and K. 595 concertos, as heard on Alessio Bax Plays Mozart, for his recent debuts with the Boston and Melbourne Symphonies, both with Sir Andrew Davis, and with the Sydney Symphony, which he led himself from the keyboard. In addition, Bax made his solo recital debut at London’s Wigmore Hall, and give concerts at L.A.’s Disney Hall, Washington’s Kennedy Center, and New York’s Carnegie Hall.

As a renowned chamber musician, he recently collaborated with Joshua Bell, Ian Bostridge, Lucille Chung, Steven Isserlis, Daishin Kashimoto, Sergei Nakariakov, Emmanuel Pahud, Lawrence Power, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Paul Watkins and Tabea Zimmermann.

Since 2017 he has been the Artistic Director of the Incontri in Terra di Siena Festival, a Summer Music Festival in the Val d’Orcia region of Tuscany. He appears regularly in festivals such as Seattle, Bravo Vail, Salon-de-Provence, Le Pont in Japan, Great Lakes, Verbier, Ravinia and Music@Menlo.

In 2009, he was awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant, and four years later he received both the Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award and the Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists.

Bax’s celebrated Signum Classics discography includes Beethoven’s “Hammerklavier” and “Moonlight” Sonatas (a Gramophone “Editor’s Choice”); Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto; Bax & Chung, a duo disc with Lucille Chung; Alessio Bax plays Mozart, recorded with London’s Southbank Sinfonia; Alessio Bax: Scriabin & Mussorgsky (named “Recording of the Month … and quite possibly … of the year” by MusicWeb International); Alessio Bax plays Brahms (a Gramophone “Critics’ Choice”); Bach Transcribed; and Rachmaninov: Preludes & Melodies (an American Record Guide “Critics’ Choice 2011”). Recorded for Warner Classics, his Baroque Reflections album was also a Gramophone “Editor’s Choice.” He performed Beethoven’s “Hammerklavier” Sonata for Daniel Barenboim in the PBS-TV documentary Barenboim on Beethoven: Masterclass, available on DVD from EMI.

At the record age of 14, Bax graduated with top honors from the conservatory of Bari, his hometown in Italy, and after further studies in Europe, he moved to the United States in 1994. A Steinway artist, he lives in New York City with pianist Lucille Chung and their daughter, Mila. He was invited to join the piano faculty of Boston’s New England Conservatoryin the fall of 2019.