Eugenio Milazzo

Eugenio Milazzo is a pianist and opera repetition from Florence, Italy.
In 2002, he graduated with highest marks and cum laude from the Luigi Cherubini State Conservatory in Florence, where he was tutored by M° Lydia Rocchetti. In 2004-2005, he earned a diploma with distinction in chamber music with Maria Vittoria Crotti, at the International Pianistic Academy “Incontri col Maestro” in Imola (BO), under the guidance of M° PierNarciso Masi. He also attended numerous specialization courses.
During his studies, he worked with Fabio Caselli, Damiano Puliti, Lydia Rocchetti, Daniela De Santis, Rolando Russo, Vittorio Chiarappa, Romano Pezzati, Alessandro Specchi, Andrea Severi, Giuseppe Montanari, Francesco Novelli, Paolo Carlini, Franco Maggio Ormezowski, Simone Bernardini, PierNarciso Masi, among others. At the same time, he gained experience as a piano accompanist, cooperating maestro, and orchestra player on piano, organ, celesta, harmonium, and harpsichord.
He collaborated with conductors such as Myung-Whun Chung, Nir Kabaretti, Piero Bellugi, Christopher Franklin, Massimo De Bernart, Augusto Vismara, Giovambattista Varoli, Nicola Paszkowski, Luis Bacalov, Giovanni Maria Lori, Federico Bardazzi, Mauro Ceccanti, Daniele Giorgi, Federico Maria Sardelli, Guido Corti, Francesco Vizioli, Stephen Lloyd, Claudio Desderi, Carlo Moreno Volpini, Gabriele Ferro, Bruno Rigacci, Bruno Nicoli, Fabio Del Cioppo, P.C. Fei, and Lorenzo Parigi. He also worked with stage directors including Paolo Miccichè, Luciano Alberti, Emanuele Gamba, Roberto Croce, Giorgio Barberio Corsetti, Paolo Virzì, Francesca Elia, Beppe Menegatti, Alessio Pizzech, Roberta Cortese, Lorenzo Fontana, Massimo Salvianti, Franco Barlozzetti, and Hans Holzbecher. He performed with world-renowned instrumentalists from various orchestras, such as the Chicago Symphony, Berliner Philharmoniker, Radio France, Scala Theatre, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Theatre, and Orchestra Regionale Toscana (O.R.T.).
He accompanied many choral formations, singers (in both vocal chamber music and opera), and instrumentalists during courses, auditions, and performances. He worked with actors and actresses such as Athina Cenci, David Riondino, Alessandro Calonaci, Andrea Buscemi, Alessandro Paci, Massimo Tarducci, Massimo Salvianti, Ilaria Di Luca, Elena D’ Anna, Alessia Innocenti, and Laura Milani. He accompanied show dances and boasted performances as a soloist with orchestra and on two pianos.
In addition to his vast classical and operatic repertoire (Mozart, Rossini, Puccini, Mascagni, Richard Strauss, Stravinsky), he performed compositions and operas by contemporary authors such as Poulenc, Milhaud, Rota, Bernstein, Orff, Wolf-Ferrari, Stockhausen, Berio, Bussotti, DeSimone, Maxwell Davies, Blake, Henze, Porena, Pennisi, Demby, Tutino, Traversi, and Russo.
He won numerous auditions for orchestra pianist and cooperating maestro positions with orchestras such as Maggio Formazione Orchestra (Florence), Savona Symphony Orchestra, Young Mediterranean Orchestra, Luigi Cherubini State Conservatory of Florence Orchestra and Choir, KammerKonzert Ensemble (Florence), Cherubini Ensemble (Florence), Florence University Orchestra and Choir, Pergola and Goldoni Theatres of Florence, International Art Workshop of Montepulciano (Siena), Politeama and Metastasio Theatres of Prato, Young Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra, Musical Summer in Portogruaro, Harmonia Cantata (choir of Florence), State Conservatories of Florence, Venice, and Rovigo, Fiesole Music School (Firenze), Summer’s Fiesole, Dante Alighieri Rome Society Philharmonic Academy and Colosseo Theatre of Rome, Santa Fiora in Musica Festival (Grosseto), Bolzano Comunal Theatre (VBB Orchestra), San Felice Academy (Sacred Music from the World Festival), Florence Musical Academy, Lyric Florence, Music Europe (Florence), Chigiana Musical Academy, and Rinnovati and Rozzi Theatres of Siena, Florence, and Pisa Verdi Theatre.
In addition to his work as a pianist, he is also a composer, and some of his compositions have been performed at Sala Vanni in Florence.
Eugenio Milazzo joined the Greve Opera Academy faculty in 2024.