Maria Grazia Amoruso studied at the Conservatorio Paganini in Genoa and graduated with distinction.
Her repertoire for piano and organ ranges from Frescobaldi and Bach to Dallapiccola and Castiglioni.
Maria Grazia has recorded for piano and organ for the record companies Philarmonia, Devega and Zecchini.
We experience a deep musical reworking, thanks to the continuous overflowing of ideas... shows a marked instrumental solidity and a coherent interpretative personality...
It is in fact instructive to go back to the years of Edwin Fischer's unforgettable interpretations to understand with what equal and authentic humility the Genoese pianist approaches music... and it will not be easy to forget the way of living and breathing the different moods that the pianist has transmitted with extraordinary inner simplicity and expressive strength.
With a very ambitious program that was carried out with a great musicality and technique creating the impressionist atmosphere with a poetic and delicate touch in Debussy... deepening in Beethoven and Brahms and with a passionate and contained Chopin...
The young artist... performed with great success in front of a large and critical audience, arousing... an involvement worthy of an evening of quality music.
There remains the musical lesson, the naturalness with which she relives the enchantments of musical moments, each one penetrated into its physiognomy, capturing in a nutshell that fatalistic sense which will then be revealed in the wider perspectives of the great Sonata in C minor...
With dedication and passion Maria Grazia Amoruso revives on the small wooden organ the Hayden concerts, grasping the characteristics of formal articulation and sensitivity.
I am pleased that Giorgio Questa's voice continues to resonate thanks to the art of Amoruso...
A logical proposal, worthy of being taken into consideration: we recognize a certain discursive naturalness; the romantic elements give privilege to a careful reading of what I would define as classics: phrasing, constant rhythmic scanning, essential pedal, precision in basic colors…
Chopin's two Scherzi are interpreted with great passion in their tumultuous spirit, but also with refinement in their lyrical moment... and with pensive and romantic style the two nocturnes....
[...] With the right spirit and beautiful vivacity, she interprets Schubert, capturing the depth and poetry... She presents the Wanderer Fantasy with the right spirit, in a brilliant way, maintaining a clear and luminous phrasing... in the four Improvisations of op.142... Amoruso renders with poignant pathos the extraordinary, caressing theme of Rosamunda.
[...] In the famous Beethoven Sonata Op.27 Nr.2, after the dreamy Adagio sostenuto, it gives a particular impetus to the restless presto agitato. The Sonata Op.90 emphasizes with particular effectiveness the cantabile... The Brahm’s pieces had great poetic spirit, capable of making us dream in their harmonic development...
Success obtained by the talented Genoese pianist Maria Grazia Amoruso... who performed masterfully...
A completely personal, even intimate version, almost a love affair with Schubert himself ... The result is clean, essential, attractive, sometimes enchanting but full of contrasts.
The reading of the Musical Moments is exciting: fluent discursiveness and musicality. The great Sonata is also extraordinary, a clean, attentive and brilliant interpretation, intimate in the second movement and virtuosic in the finale with a pressing rhythm…