Avery Gagliano

Having made her debut at Carnegie Hall at the age of just 20, 22-year-old pianist Avery Gagliano is an artist with ‘distinctive young talent’. Bringing sincerity, emotional depth and exquisite voicing, alongside a thoughtful and intriguing spirit to the stage, Avery gained international acclaim as the First Prize and Best Concerto Prize winner of the 2020 National Chopin Piano Competition, and as the only American semi-finalist at the 18th International Chopin Competition in 2021.

Recent and forthcoming highlights of the 2023/24 season include her debut with the Rochester Symphony and Galveston Symphony, as well as recitals at the Philharmonie Luxembourg, Ehrbar Saal (Vienna), La Grange au Lac (Évian), Paderewski Festival, Miami International Piano Festival and Sanibel Music Festival. With a particular passion for collaborating with other artists, Avery is also a dedicated chamber musician, regularly sharing the stage with ensembles such as the Balourdet Quartet and the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players in New York. 

At the invitation of Sir András Schiff, Avery appeared in recitals throughout Europe during the 2022/23 season as part of his Building Bridges series. In recent seasons, she has also appeared on renowned concert stages and at festivals including the Verbier Festival, Gilmore Festival, Bravo! Vail Festival, Ravinia Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Carnegie Hall, Warsaw National Philharmonic Hall, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Salle Cortot and WQXR’s Greene Space. Her solo appearances with orchestra include the Louisville Orchestra, Maryland Symphony Orchestra, Aspen Philharmonic Orchestra, Tuscarawas Philharmonic and Oregon Mozart Players, among others.

Avery’s debut album, Reflections, was released on the Steinway & Sons label in 2021, with a programme at the heart of her music making, from Chopin to Haydn, Schumann and Adès. Her interpretations of works by Chopin have been deemed as ‘a revelation’. 

Alongside her successes at the two most highly regarded Chopin competitions, Avery also received the Audience Prize at the 2019 Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition, and was the winner of the Aspen Music Festival Concerto Competition, MostArts Festival Piano Competition and the 2019 National YoungArts Competition. She is an alumna of the Verbier Festival & Academy, Gstaad Piano Academy, Lieven Piano Foundation, the Lang Lang International Music Foundation’s Young Scholars Program, a four-year holder of the US Chopin Foundation Scholarship, and has made several appearances on Philadelphia’s WRTI classical radio and National Public Radio’s (NPR) From The Top. Originally from Washington D.C., where she studied at the Curtis Institute with Robert McDonald. She has also studied with Gary Graffman and Jonathan Biss while at Curtis. 

Avery Gagliano has been studying in the Sir András Schiff Performance Program for Young Pianists at Kronberg Academy since October 2024, funded by the Henle Patronage of the Stichting Horizon Foundation.