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Caio Pagano is an internationally renowned concert pianist, teacher and scholar. He is a distinguished professor of piano at Arizona State University since 1986, having earned the honor of Regents' Professor of Piano at this institution. He is the recipient of many piano performance awards in Europe and in his native country, Brazil. Pagano has performed throughout four continents in more than 900 public performances as recital soloist, chamber musician and as soloist with orchestras. He has premiered 36 works in concert halls worldwide, 25 of these were works written and dedicated to him by the composers, including several concertos for piano and orchestra. He was the first pianist to perform the complete works of Schoenberg in several capitals of the world. Among the remarkable premieres was the performance of Pousseuris Apostrophe, along with Beethovenis Diabelli Variations in Washington D.C. and New York City. He has performed with orchestras throughout the world with conductors such as Sergiu Comissiona, Camargo Guarnieri, Szimon Goldberg, Howard Griffits, John Neschling, Eleazar de Carvalho, Silva Pereira, Ernest Bour, Morton Gould, Roberto Minczuk, and Roberto Tibiria. As Professor at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Pagano created the International Biennial of Music, which attracted many internationally acclaimed artists who collaborated with him, including Saschko Gawriloff, Cristof Caskel, Raphael Hillyer, Werner Taube, and Henry Schuman. He also toured with Pierre Fournier, Janos Starker, Thomas Friedli, Szymon Goldberg and the Dutch Chamber Orchestra, Albor Rosenfeld, the St. Petersburg Quartet, Maria Jao Pires, Gerard Caussa and the Jacques Thibaud Trio. He has been a featured artist at the Miami New World Festival, the Washington Interamerican Fest, the Grenoble Festival, the Megeve Festival, the Merida Festival, the Montpellier Festival, and many others. At ASU he created the Brazilian Festival in 2000 (followed by two CDs, the first with two works for piano and orchestra by Brazilian composer Camargo Guarnieri, with the Czech National Symphony, and the second with Trio for piano violin and horn by Almeida Prado, which he commissioned) and the Steinway Chamber Music Festival in 2010. In partnership with Maria Jao Pires, Pagano created the Centre for Studies of the Arts in Portugal and recorded Sounds of Belgais for DGG. Summit, Soundset, Deutsche Grammophon and Glissando labels publish his acclaimed recordings. In 2009 Soundset released a recording that was selected as CD of the week by NPR/KBAQ, Remembrance, and another with works of Brahms, Poulenc, Debussy and Berg (with Carlos Alves, clarinet), Recital in the West. In 2010 Pagano was selected Musician of the Year by the magazine Concerto,and his new CD with works by Chopin and Schumann was sent to 5,000 subscribers to commemorate this release. Caio Pagano is a Steinway Artist.