»Music is music.« This was the answer Alban Berg gave George Gershwin in Paris in the spring of 1928 to make it clear that there is no difference between so-called ›academic‹ music and ›popular‹ music. Francesco Tristano has internalised this quote in his work over the last ten years, combining piano and synthesizer, moving between the scores of Johann Sebastian Bach – as well as Frescobaldi, Berio, Buxtehude, Stravinsky and Gershwin, to name but a few – and the latest technical production tools.

Francesco Tristano is an artist of many talents: Pianist, composer, techno and jazz musician who unites eras, genres and styles in his music. He has become a central figure in a new movement that explores the creative interface between classical and electronic music, naturally uniting audiences from different worlds. Tristano frequently collaborates with renowned artists from different genres, including Derrick May, Carl Craig and Michel Portal.

In 2017, Francesco Tristano began his collaboration with Sony Classical, focussing on releasing his own works in a new phase of his career as a recording artist. While continuing to perform worldwide as both a pianist and electronic artist – in concert halls and at experimental and dance music festivals – he returned to the piano piano as a creative tool with »Piano Circle Songs« (2017). His latest album »Tokyo Stories« (2019) is a tribute to Japan, capturing the atmospheres and experiences he has gathered over the years during his visits to the country as an artist. His latest album »On Early Music« (February 2022) is dedicated to the music of the Renaissance and early Baroque, presenting his own baroque-inspired piano works alongside pieces by Girolamo Frescobaldi, Orlando Gibbons, John Bull and Peter Philips.

And yet Francesco Tristano continues to pursue his life’s great project, which he will never abandon: the recording of the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach. In 2023, he founded his own label, intothefuture, on which he began releasing Bach’s complete works that same year, starting with the English Suites, followed by the six Partitas in 2024. As Alban Berg said: »Music is music«, and Bach will always be there because he was the only creator to transcend those boundaries.