Paul Bisaccia has performed around the country and around the world. He has made a particular specialty of the music of George Gershwin, although his repertoire and musical interests are wide ranging. He was the first artist to record the complete solo piano music of Gershwin and his PBS television special “Gershwin by Bisaccia” has been broadcast throughout the U.S. and seen by millions. The program was also dubbed into Mandarin Chinese for broadcast in Asia. The American Record Guide says, “For Gershwin interpretations Bisaccia wins hands down.” Popular recording and cabaret star Michael Feinstein reacted to Bisaccia’s Gershwin television program by saying “How wonderful! It just proves that talent always prevails in these times of mediocrity.”

Bisaccia is a protégé of renowned Brazilian pianist Luiz de Moura Castro and is a summa cum laude graduate of the Hartt School of Music where he ranked highest in his graduating class. He made his European debut at age 17 and has returned to perform in Romania, in Germany, to participate in the International Symposium on Musical Interpretation in Spain, and to perform in Switzerland and Rome. He has also made several performance tours in South America and Asia.

Bisaccia is sought after as a clinician and judge for piano competitions. He has been the judge for competitions at the University oif Connecticut, The Hartt School at the University of Hartford and the international Simone Belsky Competition. He has been a guest lecturer at Colby College and Trinity College.

In the United States Bisaccia has been featured on NPR’s Performance Today and in showcase performances for the American Liszt Society. At the invitation of the Virgil Fox Society Bisaccia performed the Rachmaninoff 2^nd piano concerto with Peter Richard Conte playing his transcription of the orchestra part on the famed Wannamaker Organ in Philadelphia. This gala event was only the second private concert in this space in 75 years.

Bisaccia’s music is also featured in the acclaimed Ric Burns television documentary “New York”. He has become the most frequently requested pianist by listeners of beethoven.com and his most recent special for Public Television, “Paul Bisaccia and the Great American Piano” has been hailed by the critics as “another sure-fire winner.” He was selected as the “Alumnus of the Year” by the Hartt School at the University of Hartford and to honor the occasion the governor proclaimed “Paul Bisaccia Day” in the State of CT. Bisaccia was honored to perform Rhapsody in Blue in inauguration ceremonies for the new theater on the site of Aeolian Hall in New York, where Gershwin himself first performed his legendary masterpiece.

Currently Bisaccia has begun filming for several new television projects at Steinway Hall in New York, with award winning film director and performer David Giardina, including subjects as diverse as a Chopin special to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Chopin's birth, and a special on Tin Pan Alley. His newest CD, "The Great American Piano Revisited" contains world premieres of unpublished, never before heard Gershwin treasures. He will be performing a concert of music based on that CD starting in the 2011 season.

A prolific recording artist, Paul has a discography of 15 CDs, covering the music of 68 composers and 268 individual compositions, all available on Amazon.com.

With New York City vocalist David Giardina he also tours in a special program of music of the 20's and 30's called Tin Pan Alley - Alive!

Portions of Mr. Bisaccia's film and television work can be viewed on youtube.com