Classic Jazz in Four Hands

Pioneers in the use of four-hands piano in jazz, Stephanie Trick and Paolo Alderighi have earned widespread success with their arrangements of classics from the stride piano, ragtime, and boogie woogie traditions, as well as from the Swing Era. In recent projects, they have focused on the repertoire of the Golden Age of Broadway and Hollywood, as the songs written for the musicals of the stage and screen represent a high point of creative ferment in American popular music. 

Blending impeccable technique with mature musicality, the piano duo has performed in a variety of venues across the United States, Europe, Japan, Israel, and Australia (including the Gilmore Keyboard Festival, Jazz at Filoli, the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, the Kobe Jazz Street Festival in Japan, the London Jazz Festival, the Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival, the Ascona Jazz Festival in Switzerland, the Silkeborg Riverboat Jazz Festival in Denmark, the Bohém Ragtime & Jazz Festival in Hungary, the Milan Conservatory, Teatro Dal Verme Milano, Jazzland in Vienna, and the Jazz Bistro in Toronto), winning the acclaim of critics and fans alike.

Stephanie Trick (from St. Louis), a leading exponent of stride piano, and Paolo Alderighi (from Milan), one of Italy’s foremost jazz pianists, met at a piano festival in Switzerland in 2008. Soon after, they started to collaborate on a four-hands piano project and have recorded seven albums together. Trick and Alderighi explored the formula of four-hands duets on one piano, rarely used in jazz, in their first two albums, Two for One (2012) and Sentimental Journey (2014) (the latter album was awarded the Prix Piano by the Hot Club of France). Their partnership continued with Double Trio Live 2015 and Double Trio Always (2016), recorded in the piano trio setting, but with two pianists instead of one. In 2018, they released their first album on two pianos, Broadway and More. This was followed by the 2020 double album, I Love Erroll, I Love James P., featuring compositions of two legendary figures of jazz piano, Erroll Garner and James P. Johnson. In 2025, they released their second album on two pianos, Classic Jazz on Two Pianos, produced in collaboration with Yamaha Music Europe.

In this concert the piano duo will present their original arrangements in four hands of tunes from the early decades of jazz history, remembering greats such as Thomas “Fats” Waller, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and others.