KOUKL, GIORGIO

Giorgio Koukl is a pianist/harpsichordist and composer who lives in Lugano, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino in southern Switzerland. He was born in Prague in 1953, and studied there at the State Music School and Conservatory. In 1968 he moved to Switzerland and continued his studies at both the Conservatories of Zürich and Milan. By a strange parallel of history, much as the Martinůs left for Switzerland in 1938 to escape the Nazi armies rolling into Paris, in 1968, thirty years later, when Koukl moved to Switzerland, Soviet tanks rolled into Prague. While studying in Zürich and Milan, Koukl took part in the master-classes of N. Magalov, J. Février, S. Neuhaus, and Martinů’s friend and advocate Rudolf Firkušný. During classes with the last Koukl first encountered Martinů’s music, prompting him to search out his compatriot’s solo piano works. Since then he has developed these into an important part of his concert repertoire and is now considered as one of the world’s leading interpreters of Martinů’s piano music.

For more information, please visit Giorgio Koukl’s website.

Mr Koukl’s publisher/media contact in North America is Lux Nova Press.

Albums featuring this artist are available for download from ClassicsOnline.com
MARTINU, B.: Piano Music (Complete), Vol. 1 (Koukl)	8.557914
MARTINU, B.: Piano Music (Complete), Vol. 2 (Koukl)	8.557918
MARTINU, B.: Piano Music (Complete), Vol. 3 (Koukl)	8.557919
MARTINU, B.: Piano Music (Complete), Vol. 4 (Koukl)	8.570215
MARTINU, B.: Piano Music (Complete), Vol. 5 (Koukl)	8.572175
MARTINU, B.: Piano Music (Complete), Vol. 6 (Koukl)	8.572024
MARTINU, B.: Piano Music (Complete), Vol. 7 (Koukl)	8.572025