Driven by a desire to offer a different perspective on the history of music through the exploration of lesser-known repertoires, Nicola Giosmin allies his work as a pianist with his musicological and philosophical expertise. His projects are the result of an aesthetic reflection that consistently seeks to highlight artistic production and reception while considering their genuine historical and social contexts, as well as their role in contemporary cultural development.
Born in Italy, he completed his piano and electronic music studies (with honours) under Galliano Bortolami and Nicola Bernardini at the C. Pollini National Conservatory of Music in Padua, where he also attended chamber music classes with Giovanni Battista Rigon and Aldo Orvieto. At the same time, he earned a master’s degree in the philosophy of physics under Giovanni Boniolo at the University of Padua.
Selected to participate in a course funded by the Cini Foundation and organized by the Luigi Nono Archive dedicated to the interpretation of …sofferte onde serene…, taught by Stefan Litwin, Giosmin was invited to perform for the tenth anniversary of the Luigi Nono Archive in Venice in 2003, as well as on numerous occasions alongside Nuria Schœnberg-Nono.
In 2002, he moved to Florence to work at the Tempo Reale Center, founded by Luciano Berio. During this time, he continued his studies for two years with Pier Narciso Masi, a former student of Edwin Fischer and Carlo Zecchi. He also studied chamber vocal repertoire in a voice and piano duo with tenor Leonardo De Lisi.
Giosmin completed a double Ph.D. under the supervision of Rossana Dalmonte (University of Trento) and Michel Imberty (Paris X – Nanterre) on issues related to musical semantics, earning high praise from the jury for both titles.
A passionate chamber musician, he participated in Liedgestaltung courses organized by the Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Cologne at Montepulciano with Professors Ruth Ziesak, Ulrich Eisenlohr, Henner Leyhe, Jürgen Glauss, Peter Christopher Runge, Tobias Koch, as well as a masterclass on interpreting French
melodies at the École Civique de Musique in Milan with Professor Dalton Baldwin. He later benefited from the advice of Valérie Philippin, Pierre Strauch, and Nicholas Isherwood for contemporary repertoire.
His artistic work encompasses both solo and chamber music. In four-hand and two-piano duos, he has won nine national and international competitions, performing programs entirely dedicated to 20th-century music. In addition to an active piano career performing in numerous venues across Italy and France (Frigos de Paris, Salle Bellan, Le Guichet de Montparnasse, INJA [Paris], Czech Institute of Paris, Salle Arturo Lopez [Neuilly-sur-Seine], Teatro Argentina [Rome], Auditorium of the Marcello National Conservatory [Venice], Vicenza Auditorium, Candiani Center [Venice], San Marco Museum [Florence]), he is also a composer. His compositions, which include works for various ensembles and electronic music, have been performed at festivals in Italy (La Terra Fertile, L’Aquila) and
France (4th Paris Choral Encounters) by the Sottovoce Choir, the Tryptique Ensemble, and the Paris Chamber Choir. Recently, he collaborated in Paris with the Multipiste Ensemble and Jacques Remus, performing on an innovative instrument based on thermoacoustic technology (Thermophones, a winning project of “Mondes Nouveaux” 2023).
Giosmin has also contributed to numerous publications in specialized journals and books and is invited as a speaker in France and abroad.
He has recorded eight albums, including the complete sonatas of American composer Alan Hovhaness and an album of sonatas by composer Pál Kadosa, released on the Taukay label.
Since 2010, Giosmin has lived in France, where he works in Paris. After several years as an accompanist at the Conservatory of Puteaux and the Regional Conservatory of Boulogne-Billancourt, he joined the Departmental Conservatory of Bourg-la-Reine/Sceaux as a full-time Professor of Artistic Education.