James Tocco

Eminent Scholar of Chamber Music


College-Conservatory of Music
University of Cincinnati
P0 Box 210003
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0003
telephone: 5l3-556-6963
James.Tocco@UC.EDU

James Tocco has enjoyed a worldwide career as a soloist with orchestra, a recitalist, a chamber music performer and a renowned pedagogue. He has a repertoire of over 50 works with orchestra including virtually the entire standard piano concerto repertoire, as well as more rarely performed works such as the Symphonie Concertante of Szymanowski, the Kammerkonzert of Alban Berg, and The Age of Anxiety of Leonard Bernstein. Professor Tocco is one of the few pianists in the world to program regularly the keyboard works of Handel. His awards include: winner of the International ARD Competition in Munich in 1973, appearance in 1975 at the Vienna Festival.

Since that time he has toured the globe with performances in the United States, Canada, most of the countries in Europe and South America, the former Soviet Union, Japan, Australia, South Africa, and the Middle East. Solo appearances include the major orchestras of the world: Berlin, Munich, London, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Festival participation includes Salzburg, Vienna, Lockenhaus, Holland, Schleswig-Holstein, Wolf Trap, Ravinia, Mostly Mozart, Santa Fe, and the Hollywood Bowl.

Pro Arte releases include the world premiere recording of Bernstein's complete solo piano music and the first recorded performance of the piano solo version of the Suite from Copland's Rodeo. Mr.Tocco recorded for Gasparo the four piano sonatas of Edward MacDowell. ECM Records has issued his live performance of Erwin Schulhof's Cinq Etudes de Jazz. Deutsche Harmonia Mundi has released his recording of the complete Bach/Liszt organ transcriptions.

Professor Tocco has been on the faculty of the College-Conservatory of Music since 1991.