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Fabio Parrini’s activity includes recordings, live broadcasts, solo recitals, concertos, chamber music, and collaborations with orchestras, choirs, summer festivals, and opera productions. Among his many musical partners are his wife Sherry (piano), their children Maria (piano) and Sam (violin), and his siblings Anna (soprano), Chiara (violin) and Alberto (cello). A Steinway Artist and SCAC Approved Artist, he has performed with the group Pan Harmonia, has released CDs as a soloist and with violinist Eun-Sun Lee, and has received multiple competition prizes, a Fulbright Grant, a Kahn Award, and recording grants from the Metropolitan Arts Council and North Greenville University, where he chairs the Piano Department. He has coached for the Philadelphia International Music Festival and has given master classes for the NGU Piano Seminar, the Greenville MTA, the SC Governor’s School, Clemson University, the Longy School of Music, Emporia State University, Point Loma Nazarene University, Carson-Newman University, the University of Texas at Tyler, and the University of Southern Mississippi. He holds degrees from the Conservatory of Padua (Italy) and Boston University, and has studied with Anthony di Bonaventura, Micaela Mingardo, Gyorgy Sandor, Bruno Mezzena, and Adriana Rognoni.