Axel Trolese was born in Genzano, near Rome, in 1997 and started playing the piano at the age of five. He gained the Conservatory Diploma in Cremona with Maurizio Baglini. He graduated from the Conservatoire National Supérieur, in Paris, studying with Denis Pascal, and from Rome’s Accademia di Santa Cecilia, with Benedetto Lupo. He is now “Artist in Residence” at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, studying with Louis Lortie.
Gaining a reputation as a fine interpreter of French music, he recorded his first album in 2016 – “The Late Debussy: 12 Etudes & 6 Epigraphes Antiques”, which was praised with numerous reviews on Repubblica, Musica and Amadeus.
He was a prize winner in the Ettore Pozzoli International Piano Competition, the Grand Prix Alain Marinaro and the Premio Venezia. He has subsequently performed in major international concert halls, as a soloist, with orchestra and as a chamber musician, including in Rome’s Auditorium Parco della Musica, Venice’s La Fenice Theatre, the Italian Cultural Institutes of Paris and Budapest, Beijing’s Millennium Concert Hall, Beaulieu Abbey in Hampshire, Paris’ Salle Cortot, the Académie de France, the Quirinal Palace, the Amiata Piano Festival, Weimar’s Weimarhalle and the Fazioli Concert Hall. Some of his concerts have been broadcast by BBC Radio3, France Musique and Venice Classic Radio. He has also performed with the Jenaer Philharmoniker, the Roma 3 Orchestra and worked with conductors such as Massimiliano Caldi, Jesús Medina, Pasquale Veleno and Ovidiu Balan.
Axel has attended masterclasses given by some of the most important pedagogues and concert pianists in the world, including Arie Vardi, Pavel Gililov, Michel Béroff, Philippe Entremont, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Roberto Prosseda, Joaquín Achúcarro and Jerome Rose.
He has appeared in a documentary by ARTE about the Italian composer Roffredo Caetani (explaining and playing his pieces on his Bechstein grand piano gifted by Franz Liszt) and in the masterclass-documentary “Inside the music” with Roberto Prosseda by SkyClassica.
