Silvio Scionti
Silvio Vittore Alberto Scionti was an Italian-born American pianist and teacher. Born in Acireale, Sicily, he trained at the Royal Conservatory in Naples. He eventually settled in the United States, teaching at the American Conservatory of Music, the Chicago Musical College, and North Texas State College from 1942 to 1953, and privately in the Dallas area. He performed as a soloist numerous times with the Chicago and Minneapolis orchestras, and frequently gave recitals. In the 1920s, he toured the United States performing piano duos with former student Stell Andersen. After 1935, he and his wife Isabel toured Europe, Mexico, and the United States. He also recorded a handful of piano rolls.
Scionti died in Rome.
Honors and awards
- 1956 — Italian Solidarity, by the Italian Government
Former students
- Stell Andersen
- Monte Hill Davis
- Ivan Davis
- Jeaneane Jo Dowis, married Samuel Lipman, pianist and co-founding editor of The New Criterion
- James Robert Floyd
- Jack Guerry
- Mary Nan Hudgins
- Jonetta Miller Hinkle
- Lucy Scarbrough
- Alice Downs
- Jonathan Woods
Published works
- Silvio Scionti, The Road to Piano Artistry; a collection of classic and romantic compositions, with interpretative and technical comment, Carl Fischer, Inc.
- Silvio Scionti, Album of Selected Classics for Piano, G. Ricordi, New York
- , compiled by Jack Guerry, University of North Texas Press
- Silvio Scionti, Silvio Scionti's system of piano artistry, L'Arte pianistica, A revised exposition of all fundamental principles of piano technique, Edizioni Curci, Milan